Posts Tagged with ‘china’

There is so little positive news from China these days and this is particularly true with regard to Web news. Censorship, hacking, prostitution issues and a host of other maladies seem to be plaguing China and its Internet. Just today it was reported that a man dropped dead in a Chinese cyber café after playing some online game for three days straight. According to the news a 30 year old man evidently died of exhaustion, but the particular game was not [...]

What is up with China? For quite a while I was railing against Google for being so ethnocentric, and Yahoo! too. Now it seems that China's “Army hackers” are in the news again allegedly infecting German ministries with spy programs. German magazine Der Spiegel reported that German government ministries including Chancellor Angel Merkel's office have been infected by these attacks. We reported on this Chinese “hacker army” back in June, and this latest allegation seems to signal a Cyber war that is heating [...]

For those wonder when, oh when, Google is going to get serious about social networking, the wait is over. Maybe. Well, we’re not quite sure just yet.
Most of us know something about the network Big G’s been maintaining these past few years, called Orkut. Popular in some parts of the southwestern hemisphere, it’s been a piece of Google not very much spoken for by Mountain View.
Now, however, Google is showing signs that it’s paying closer attention to the social Web [...]

Despite all the censorship, and even the threat of prison time (for some fairly outspoken bloggers), more and more Chinese can’t seem to help but spend more and more time on the Internet. The surge in Net-based activity on the mainland has even grabbed the attention of the national government in the past couple of years. The government has now gone so far as to classify excessive time spent before the screen an indication of addiction, and has proceeded to [...]

Malaysia isn’t the hottest spot on the Web. Naturally, that title is reserved for Silicon Valley. Nonetheless, the government of the Southeast Asian country is raising a fit over what it feels is a dangerous insurgency in the form of a blogger complex that is attacking the nation’s king and the religion of Islam.
And it’s threatening to use “tough anti-terrorism laws” to combat commentators who the governing party believes to be a threat security. Etcetera, etcetera.
Already, the ruling party has [...]

The Western world likes to consider itself the most current of hemispheres. It sees itself as the half of the globe with the most technological prowess, though today that assertion can definitely be debated. (At least in terms of the stuff taking place in clean rooms and such, the West can likely still claim an upper hand, however.)
But when tossing about market growth numbers and so forth, there’s a lot that shows that those in the East are flying [...]

China and the Web seem to be in the news every day and today is no exception. According to Lt. General Robert Elder, Commander of the 8th Air force and head of the new "three star cyber-command", China is seeking to be the dominant power in cyberspace. The U.S. cyber-command is leading a new push to maintain its superiority in this area according to Elder. It is difficult to imagine Chinese soldiers manning their laptops as at left, but the [...]

Think Silicon Valley is hot on Web 2.0? You’re right. It is. Want to know where else you can find a place abuzz over Web-based firms, from startups to big leaguers? China.
Though we advise that you do not “forget Silicon Valley,” as Michael Kanellos lectures in the opener to a recent piece published on CNET’s News.com, we definitely hope you begin to pay attention to the capitalistic shift happening in the PRC (People’s Republic of China), which isn’t only fueling [...]

China’s bloggers aren’t much liked by their government. Some of them don’t speak kindly of President Hu Jintao and the Communist Party, so some are censored - even jailed in a number of circumstances. And lately those in charge have made known their drive to require bloggers “use their real names” upon registration of their blogs. Tuesday May 22, however, marked the beginning of the end of such an initiative, due to “an outcry over the proposal from the [...]