Eric Kaltman

Online Gamers can now pay with their blood – WAN

From Weird Asia News: “An online game operator has demanded that banned players donate blood to be allowed back into the game. Moliyo, which runs a 3D massively multiplayer online game in China, made the demand after banning 120,000 players who attempted to hack the game. More than 100 players had already signed up to […]

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QQ: China’s New Coin of the Realm? – WSJ

From the Wall Street Journal: “China’s fastest-rising currency isn’t the yuan. It’s the QQ coin — online play money created by marketers to sell such things as virtual flowers for instant-message buddies, cellphone ringtones and magical swords for online games. In recent weeks, the QQ coin’s real-world value has risen as much as 70%.

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Chinese hackers wake up to malware – IT Week

From IT Week: “Security researchers are noticing an increase in malware originating from China, which is adding to the challenge of investigating online threats. “The past three to four months have seen a slow increase in Chinese malware. It used to be the odd file every now and then, but it is now almost every […]

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China Looks to Rein in Bloggers – Reuters

From the Reuters via the New York Times: “China will intensify controls of the growing numbers of bloggers using the Internet to lay bare their thoughts, politics and even bodies, the country’s chief censor has announced. The director of China’s General Administration of Press and Publication, Long Xinmin, said the administration was forming rules to […]

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Groundswell of Sarcastic Humor Undermining China’s Censors

From the Cox News Service via the St. Paul Pioneer Press: “China’s Southern Metropolis Weekly magazine recently reported this shocking news: The central government created universal health care for the country’s 1.3 billion people, wiped out bribery and reduced the country’s wide income gap. Migrant workers in the southern city of Guangzhou, notorious for its […]

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