Posts Tagged with ‘china’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just who are Google, AOL and Yahoo! chasing in China anyway? Let's take a look at China's top search engine Baidu.com and see who is making all the ad dollars in China right now.
It seems like every day I have the opportunity to report on either a Google blunder in the international market, or [...]

Today, a headline on BBC News read, “China leader urges net crackdown.” The story’s summary reads something to the effect that Chinese President Hu Jintao is now requiring that the Internet accessible by millions of now regularly connected countrymen and women be purged of “unhealthy” content. Of course, this comes after a myriad [...]