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34-397: NDSL can refer to: Nintendo DS Lite , a 2006 handheld video game console Naked DSL , style of broadband connection National Defense Student Loan Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title NDSL . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

68-572: A "lite-blogging service" similar to Tumblr, called Sina Qing, as well as a location-based service, WeiLingDi. Edalat. In a survey conducted by Gallup (China) Research Ltd in April 2003, Sina was the most popular company in China, and was estimated to have three-billion-page data volumes every day. Also, it was awarded the "China's Media of the Year" in 2003 by Southern Weekend . The company claims that it

102-401: A common layout which consists of sections like news, information, infotainment and email services with localized content. Localization involves political censorship . As with all internet content providers operating within mainland China, the web pages which are geared toward mainland China audiences have internet censors controlling the discussion for sensitive political content. In addition,

136-813: A demo for Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? . The Nintendo DS Lite was released in North America on June 11, 2006. There had been various reports of North American Target , Wal-Mart , Kmart , and Meijer stores having sold Nintendo DS Lite units as early as May 30, 2006, breaking the official launch date. On June 12, 2006, GameSpot reported that the Nintendo DS Lites had sold out at major online retailers, as well as several brick-and-mortar stores in North America. On June 13, 2006, Nintendo announced that 136,500 units were sold in two days since

170-425: A real-time clock, an alarm, and touch-screen calibration. The alarm can only be activated if the power is on. XGP Sina.com Sina Corporation (Chinese: 新 浪 ; pinyin: Xīn Làng ; lit. 'new wave') is a Chinese technology company. Sina operates four major business lines: Sina Weibo , Sina Mobile, Sina Online, and Sinanet. Sina has over 100 million registered users worldwide. Sina

204-512: A total of 262,144 colors. The touch screen has the same specifications as the top screen, but with a transparent analog touch sensor. The screens have a maximum brightness of 200   cd/m for the top screen and 190   cd/m for the bottom screen (touch screen). The CPU consists of two ARM processors, an ARM946E-S main CPU and ARM7TDMI coprocessor at clock speeds of 67   MHz and 33   MHz respectively. The lithium-ion battery (1000 mAh)

238-828: A vast range of worldwide events, such as the United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999. Sina was the first to be approved for listing on the Nasdaq stock market on 13 April 2000, through a variable interest entity (VIE) based in the Cayman Islands , followed by NetEase and Sohu in June and July respectively. It succeeded in raising US$ 68,000,000 before Nasdaq plummeted in May 2000. In July 2000, Sina

272-463: A wireless range of 30 to 100 feet. Multiple users can play certain multiplayer games with one DS game card using DS Download Play. The DS Lite is capable of receiving Wi-Fi signals from other systems in the Nintendo DS and 3DS families, Wii consoles, and Wi-Fi access points. WEP encrypted and unencrypted networks are supported. WPA encryption is not supported. Along with a touch screen,

306-544: Is adding 20 million new users per month. The top 100 users now have over 180 million unique followers combined. In November 1998, SRSNet (Stone Rich Sight Information Technology Ltd), the most visited internet portal site in China, established by Wang Zhidong  [ zh ] and Wang Yan in 1996, merged with Sinanet, a web site for American Chinese community, created in California by Hurst Lin, Ben Tsiang  [ zh ] , and Jack Hong in 1995. The merging of

340-434: Is capable of delivering 15 to 19 hours of play time on a single charge; a power-saving sleep mode is also available. The console takes roughly three hours to fully charge the battery. The DS Lite uses an AC power adapter that differs from the one used for the original Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance SP due to a smaller adaptor AC port on the top of the unit. The DS Lite supports IEEE 802.11 wireless communication with

374-469: Is one of the four major business lines of Sina Corporation. The rest of the major business lines are Sina Mobile, Sina Online and Sinanet. Sina Edalat. The domain sina.com.cn attracted at least 3.3 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey. Sina Corp also owns Sina Weibo , a Chinese microblogging site, similar to Sina Edalat , launched in August 2009. According to Sina Corp

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408-799: Is the blog service of Sina, which features the blogs of celebrities, including the most popular blog in the world, the one of Xu Jinglei . Sina Weibo is an equivalent to Tencent Weibo . Many celebrities from mainland China, Taiwan and also Hong Kong use Sina's Microblog as a platform to reach out to their fans and supporters. Some famous users on Sina's Microblog include Taiwanese hosts Dee Shu and Kevin Tsai , with more than ten million followers on their microblogs each. To provide tailored internet services for local people, Sina has been conducting quantitative and qualitative marketing researches, including demographic research, psychograph, etc., on target audience in specific regions. Internationalized services have

442-620: The Chinese population around the globe, Sina stated that it has about 94.8 million registered users and more than 10 million active users engaged in their fee-based services (10,000 of whom are overseas Chinese in North America). It provides different services around the world, for example there are 13 access points within Greater China, and subsidiary tailored pages for overseas Chinese, which include Sina US, Sina Japan, Sina Korea, Sina Australia, Sina Europe and Sina Germany. It

476-416: The Chinese population around the world. In every localized website, there are over thirty integrated channels, including news, sports , technology information, finance, advertising services, entertainment, fashion, and travel. Sina is a multiple-service provider, its major services are SMS , eMail , Search , Games, Match, Entertainment, Sina Sports , Sina Blog, and Sina Microblogging. Sina Blog (中文: 新浪博客)

510-614: The DS Lite was released on June 22, 2006, due to Midsummer . In just 10 days, Nintendo announced it had sold 200,000 Nintendo DS Lites in Europe. On June 12, 2006, Chinese media organization Sina.com reported that a container intended for shipment to Europe was stolen, which contained HK$ 18 million ( US$ 2.32 million) worth of goods, including black Nintendo DS Lite consoles and games. Later, GamesIndustry.biz reported that Nintendo had confirmed that "A number of White DS Lite made for

544-465: The DS Lite was sold out soon after its launch. The shortage was supposed to be eased after Nintendo released 700,000 Nintendo DS Lites during April 2006; however, retailers in Tokyo sold out yet again by late May 2006. This shortage would last for most of 2006 and 2007 with retailers all around the country having permanent signage apologizing for the shortage but stating that the arrival time of new stock

578-509: The DS Lite went on sale in North America, and seemed to be on pace to the 500,000 sold by the original Nintendo DS in its first ten days. Shortly after its launch, the DS Lite was sold out at major US retailers; however, it did not have the same ongoing shortages in the US as it did in Japan through 2006 and 2007. The Nintendo DS Lite was released in Europe on June 23, 2006. In Finland and Sweden ,

612-615: The DSi a year later. This larger DS Lite would have featured an increased screen size of 3.8 inches (9.7 cm), slightly smaller than the DSi XL's 4.2-inch (11 cm) screens, and lacked the wide viewing angle of the DSi XL. The Nintendo DS Lite measures 73.9 mm (2.91 in) tall, 133 mm (5.2 in) wide, and 21.5 mm (0.85 in) deep. The top screen is a backlit, 3.12-inch, transmissive TFT color LCD with 256x192-pixel resolution and .24 mm dot pitch, capable of displaying

646-519: The Nintendo DS Lite has A/B/X/Y face buttons, a directional control pad , L/R shoulder buttons, Start and Select buttons, a volume slider, and a power switch. The included stylus is 1   cm longer and 2   mm thicker than the stylus of the original Nintendo DS. The stereo speakers can provide virtual surround sound, depending on the software. It has terminals for stereo headphones and an embedded microphone for voice recognition. Like

680-568: The UK market were stolen in Hong Kong ." Nintendo opened its subsidiary, Nintendo of Korea, on July 20, 2006. The DS Lite was the first console to be released in South Korea by the subsidiary, being released on January 18, 2007. Popular Korean actors Jang Dong-gun and Ahn Sung-ki were enlisted to help promote the console. Nintendo of Korea stated they had sold more than one million units in

714-486: The annual ChinICT conference held at the Tsinghua Science Park . Recently, Sina has begun collaborating with Qihoo 360 on internet security. Through this collaboration, Qihoo 360 intend to provide Sina Weibo tech support in order to protect Weibo from hackers and viruses. As of April 24, 2012, an official statement has not yet been made announcing the collaboration. Sina provides Internet services to

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748-405: The field of wireless internet, in the meantime collaborating with China Mobile , China Telecom , Ericsson . On January 13, 2004, Sina and Yahoo started to jointly provide online auction services in China; in response to this, EachNet ( Chinese : 易趣網 ), which cooperates with eBay , lowered its registration fee in early February 2004 in order to keep its market share. Sina also sponsors

782-467: The first year of sale with around 1.4 million sold as of April 2008. The DS Lite was reportedly discontinued in April 2011. A larger model of the DS Lite was an unreleased alternative to the DS Lite. It was ready for mass production, but Nintendo decided against its release as sales of the DS Lite were still strong. Instead, Nintendo released the Nintendo DSi in 2008 and a larger version of

816-679: The largest Chinese-language mobile portal. The company was founded in Beijing in 1998, and its global financial headquarters have been based in Shanghai since October 1, 2001. Sina App Engine (SAE) is the earliest and largest PaaS platform for cloud computing in China. It is run by SAE Department, which was founded in 2009. SAE is dedicated in providing stable, effective web deployment and hosting service for those corporations, organizations and independent developers. Now more than 300,000 developers in China are using SAE. It mainly caters to

850-423: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NDSL&oldid=1100436226 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nintendo DS Lite The Nintendo DS Lite was announced on January 26, 2006, and

884-471: The microblogging site has more than 200 million users and millions of posts per day and is adding 20 million new users per month. The company also said it now has more than 60,000 verified accounts, consisting of celebrities, sports stars and other VIPs. The top 100 users now have over 180 million followers. Furthermore, Sina said that more than 5,000 companies and 2,700 media organizations in China are currently using Sina Weibo. More recently, Sina also released

918-432: The news from sina comes from local newspapers, which in the case of mainland China are themselves subject to censorship by the government. This censorship does not extend to pages and forums which are not intended for audiences within mainland China. According to the company's published information, Sina.comXpressTM and Sina.comPlusTM are Sina.com's two main exclusive technologies, which bring ease-of-use benefits and enable

952-623: The original DS, the Nintendo DS Lite is compatible with Game Boy Advance Game Paks as well as Nintendo DS game cards . The DS Lite has a DS slot on top and a Game Boy slot on the bottom. A removable cover for the Game Boy Advance Game Pak slot provides added protection from dust and other foreign materials. Numerous colors and limited editions were released, such as pink casing. The Nintendo DS Lite includes embedded PictoChat software that allows up to 16 users within local range of one another to chat at once. Also included are

986-591: The two largest Chinese websites formed into the later Sina. Since then, the service had been extended across the straits and North America , before it extended to Hong Kong in July 1999. After the merger, Sina maintained its dominant position as the most visited portal site in Mainland China over its major rivals Sohu and NetEase , two other web-based companies in China, especially through its fast, continuous, and comprehensive online news services covering

1020-550: Was later showcased at E3 2006 in May at the Los Angeles Convention Center . In Japan, the Nintendo DS Lite was released on March 2, 2006. Due to lack of supply and excessive demand following the launch, many electronics distributors raised the retail price of the redesigned handheld console. Even though Nintendo managed to release 550,000 units in March 2006 (which was above their initial projections),

1054-436: Was recognized by Southern Weekend as the "China's Media of the Year" in 2003. Sina owns Sina Weibo , a Twitter -like microblog social network , which has 56.5 percent of the Chinese microblogging market based on active users and 86.6 percent based on browsing time over Chinese competitors such as Tencent and Baidu . The social networking service has more than 500 million users and millions of posts per day, making it

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1088-434: Was sued by Blizzard Entertainment on a claim that their game Glorious Saga is a blatant rip-off of the long-running Warcraft games and related products. Sina cooperates with other web-based companies such as People , Nanfang Daily , Lifeweek and Xinhuanet , etc. Apart from the media partners, its clients include Microsoft , Dell , IBM , Motorola , and Kodak . Recently Sina started developing its business in

1122-716: Was the official website for online coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as selected by the government and the Chinese Olympic committee. The Cyberspace Administration of China reprimanded Sina in 2015, accusing the online portal of having "distorted news facts, violated morality and engaged in media hype." On 16 April 2018, the CAC launched an investigation into the news portal for alleged inclinations to factual errors and failure to curtail vulgar and explicit content. In August 2019, Sina's game studio, Sina Games ,

1156-500: Was unknown. When new product arrived, it would sell out within days. Since restocking was erratic, looking for the product often involved several visits to different retailers, and most of the time without finding the product. This was still the case in Japan as of April 25, 2007, with stores turning away potential customers every day and selling out quickly. The Nintendo DS Lite was released in Australia on June 1, 2006, and came with

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