Posts Tagged with ‘beijing’

It looks like the Olympic Games is a focus of everyone’s attention anyway so I decided to collect the special themed Olympic logos on some of the websites - well, those I have managed to find myself. They are not numerous so I suspect that not every web compny can afford such things for every special even. Google is definitely leading the game since the internet giant seems to produce a new logo for every important event - this is [...]

Now that Beijing is almost ready for the opening ceremony, I guess for all the sports fans (or those of us who only turn into sports fans for the Olympics) it is time to get ready and prepare our feed readers for The Games. While Wired offers a selection of places to watch the Games online, I am sure that not everyone has the time to actually watch everything so I have collected a few places where you can grab [...]

Over this week we've been listening to the discussions about international media demanding that the Chinese government rethinks its position on blocking a number of websites that were (and most certainly still are) considered by the government as hazardous to their citizens and their states of mind. What we see now is that under this pressure China is simply forced to lift the restrictions to a certain extent - the extent that can be viewed as acceptable by [...]

The issue of the “Great Firewall of China” is nothing new, but it becomes an issue when you have legions of foreign journalists and tourists arriving for the Summer Olympics this summer in Beijing. The Olympic organizing committee expects 20,000 foreign press members alone to arrive in a country where the Internet is locked down, stripped of most foreign news sites, links to human rights groups, and anything the government deems “subversive.”
Wang Hui, head of media relations for the organizing [...]

If you somehow managed to keep up with the goings on of the broad international news space throughout 2007, you know there’s one topic in particular that received copious amounts of attention. No, not that Mexican repellant them paranoid repubs and loose-limbed dems signed off on. Nor the tinderscape that was/is southern California. Darfur? Nope. (Too bad, though. It sure would’ve been good to see the American media juggle that ball a tad bit more.) Pakistan? Nah. The year was [...]

The last few weeks have been hard on financial markets all over the globe. From New York To Tokyo to London to Beijing, the stocks of many an exchange have been pushed up and knocked down repeatedly with no sense of reason to speak of. Fear has taken hold.
Why do we talk of such madness here at Profy? Because the worldwide roller coaster has quite a few technology companies strapped in for the ride, and it seems fairly sensible to [...]

In the last few years, Yahoo! has tread through a considerable number of less-than-stellar quarters – some of which have been marked by particularly unsavory moments – and only in recent months has it begun to make pointed attempts at salvaging some grace, honor and fortitude with the divestiture of some ailing and markedly unimpressive products and services, and through numerous public admissions of error by it’s new chief, company co-founder Jerry Yang. (Most things aren’t his fault specifically, [...]