Apple's new version of Snow Leopard is rumored to include Chinese handwriting specific to multi-touch capable machines.  Apple is expected to introduce a netbook or touch-screen laptop/tablet later this year.

As part of our peaceful evolution, the ZNH blog is going through a few minor changes in how we organize our content.

It's been two years in the making, but Chinese learning software-maker Pleco has finally unveiled version 2.0 -- and it's a must for anybody studying Chinese.

ChinaSMACK is the US Weekly or Star magazine of the China blogosphere.  It has assembled a team of writers based around the world to translate BBS posts from a plethora of popular Chinese BBS websites.

There is a whole host of applications that can work in concert with Twitter to enhance communication within your industry, or just snoop on who's following who.  A good friend of mine in San Francisco sent me this blog of Twitter apps written-up by Brian Solis, who runs the FutureWorks PR and new media company in Silicon Valley.

Seems like the Beijinger meets Facebook.  There isn't much on the site yet, which is run by three Norwegians living in Haidian.  With local management, I'm surprised at the giant image they chose for their home page.

Apple is finally - officially - in China.  The new Apple store opened this past weekend in Beijing's new Village at Sanlitun, and judging by the crowds inside, the store should prove to be successful.

China Comm, the company behind the project, intend to cover the whole area within the fifth ring road before 2009 then cover the whole city by the end of 2010.

Can linking to a picture of half a nipple land you in jail?

Believe it or not, it can.

The CBC offers this and other ways to run foul of the law from behind the Great Firewall.

It looks like you might want to make sure your anti-virus software is up-to-date when surfing .hk and .cn domain names. The Standard in Hong Kong is reporting that those domains are the world’s most dangerous.