Category: luxury | 奢華 | 사치 | 贅沢
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Li Ning & more news
Li Ning Can Li Ning Hang Onto Its Investors? – Exchange – WSJ – Li Ning struggles to cross the chasm to become an international sports brand. Li Ning is named after its founder, a former Chinese olympian. The business started in 1989 and came to global prominence ambushing Nike and Adidas at the 2008…
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How to on Mac + more things
How to A couple of Apple related how to articles that deal with some problems that I have been having How To Get Your MacBook To Run A Non-Apple 2560-By-1440 Monitor – I had this problem when speaking a couple of times so good to know How to Enable the “root” Account on Mac OS…
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John Browett + more stuff
John Browett It was a bad day for John Browett this week. A US technology site used the British word ‘shite‘ as a descriptor for Apple’s new head of global retail. It makes sense when you realise that John Browett, was formerly CEO of Dixons Retail – the people behind PCWorld and Currys. Currys and…
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NFC + more news
NFC Digital Evangelist: What would I rather pick up my phone or my keys as I leave my house? – Ian on NFC. NFC or near field communications. Like most technologies NFC has been a long time coming. It sprang out of work that was done around RFID (radio frequency identification), where a passive device…
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Omake + more news
Omake Omake trends: Elle Japon x American Apparel – gives away headband with magazines. Omake pronounced ‘O-ma-ke’ means incentive. They have become a monthly magazine giveaway, particularly for fashion publications like Elle Japon. There is also a second series of magazines called eMook. An e-Mook is a brand lookbook for a season. People often bought…
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Heirloom Design
Saul Griffith in a presentation he gave as part of the Long Now Foundation talked about the environmental impact of our stuff. The possessions that we own make up about a quarter of our lifetime carbon footprint. The way to reduce this is to have stuff that lasts longer, and that we want to keep…
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Black precious resin & Montblanc
I had a short haul flight and went over the duty free catalogue on Swiss Airlines. This section on Montblanc pens stuck out at me because of its wording. Each pen was described as being made of ‘black precious resin’. Click on the image if you want to see a larger version. So what does…
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New approach to China + more
New approach to China Official Google Blog: A new approach to China – According to Google, IP theft from Google and Gmail being hacked prompted a new approach to China. That’s very reasonable on the face of it, especially given that the IP theft also affected several other companies as well. However Google is uniquely…
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Friendfeed & more news
Friendfeed Revealed: why Facebook acquired FriendFeed – Brand Republic News – Brand Republic – Will McInnes talks about the Facebook | Friendfeed deal. Business Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo Consumer behaviour Kids want to own, not stream, their music says survey – The Next Web Design Little Art Book –…