From Reuters, via CNet: The number of Web users in China, the world’s second-largest Internet market, grew by 18 percent in 2005 to 111 million, the Economic Daily reported Wednesday. Some 8.5 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people now have access to the Internet, the newspaper reported, citing a survey released by the China […]
Read MoreAt the end of the year, Netease, one of the top three portals in China, has posted a special feature “Telling the Truth Directly” (“ÂÆûËØùÂÆûËØ¥”) which quotes the official line on various issues and events from 2005, followed by a sarcastic interpretation of the comments. Commercial portals like Netease are not permitted to do their […]
Read MoreFrom IEEE Spectrum: In 1494, upon Christopher Columbus’s return to Europe, delegates from Spain and Portugal met in the Spanish village of Tordesillas to divide the New World. In accord with an earlier papal decree, Portugal asserted dominion over what we now know as Brazil, while Spain claimed the rest of the Americas. However, they […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: China plans to merge three major networks – Internet, telecommunications and broadcasting – into one in the next five years, said a telecommunications expert yesterday. The merger of three networks has been included into the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010), which is still in the making, said Song Junde, professor at […]
Read MoreFrom Macworld: Verso Technologies Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, hopes to soon win a contract to block Chinese Internet users from using eBay Inc.’s Skype VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) software, the company said Monday. A Chinese telecommunications operator has begun a paid trial of Verso’s NetSpective M-Class filter, a product that is designed to block […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, viaYahoo! News: The number of mobile phone subscribers in China reached 376 million at the end of September, state media in Beijing have revealed. At the end of 2004 there were 25.7 mobile phones for every 100 Chinese, which exceeded the world’s average figure, statistics released at the 2005 China Mobile Telecommunications Terminal […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu News: The number of netizens in China rose to 103 million by late June this year, majority subscribing to ADSL broadband internet service, latest government figures have shown. China’s netizen base has risen to 103 million by June this year, said Mao Qian, head of Optical Telecommunications Committee of China Telecommunications Society, […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: A local arm of China Telecom, the country’s biggest fixed-line telecommunications operator, has moved to block access to a computer-to-telephone call service offered internationally by Skype, the European internet telephony company. Skype does not offer the fee-paying “SkypeOut” service to mainland Chinese users of its software and the action against it […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese Vice Minister of Information Industry Xie Guohua said here on Tuesday that China now has over 100 million Internet users and that over 30.1 millionusers have broadband Internet services. At the opening ceremony of the 6th China (Beijing) Mobile Telecommunications International Forum, Xie also said over the past years, China’s telephone users […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for sending following translation to CDT: “Reform of the Chinese Political System” by Zhou Tianyong , vice director of research at the Central Party School and collaborators was...
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