Asia’s new cell phones
The availability of these new phones can enable SMS to move up to MMS in the near future.
Read MoreTelecom’s Future: Made in China?
Successful Chinese companies are trying to establish their own brand image and go international. McKinsey Quarterly has an artilce that states Chinese companies are going through what Japan and South Korean has been through before, but it takes a long time and a lot of effort to establish your own brand.
Read MoreIntel will build huge computer grid on Chinese compus.
Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported on September 25th, the Chinese Ministry of Education is planing to build the world largest computer grid, link over 100 leading Chinese universities on the Chinese Education and Research Net (CERNET) by 2005. American high-tech company Intel will provide development tools, assistance in the development of applications and consulting […]
Read MoreChina Must Allow Room for Bad News
This is an op-ed piece on Korea Times. In this article: China Must Allow Room for Bad News, Frank Ching wrote: “President Hu has called for efforts to expand citizens’ orderly participation in political affairs and guarantee the people’s rights to carry out democratic elections, decision-making, management and supervision. To do these things, the people […]
Read MoreInternet Mogul Tops China’s Richest List
The Atanta Journal-Constitution posted a AP report about China’s new richest list. According to the list by Asiamoney magazine, Ding Lei, founder of NetEast.com Inc., has a fortune estimated at $900 million. He was followed by Larry Yung, head of the government-backed investment company Citic Pacific Ltd., who has $850 million. The annual list of […]
Read MoreCopyright – the Official Line
And odd story about copyright and the internet in China – Internet Copyright Awareness to Be Strengthened. It refers to the “ongoing Internet Forum in Beijing,” which I found through a link here. Those China...
Read MoreChina to develop its own video compression standards
China is making its own foray into developing a movie standard to reduce its dependence on American intellectual property. China will look at replacing the MPEG-4 format with a homegrown Chinese format. This move will save over $400 million US dollars in royalties over the next decade. Of course the possibility exists that it will […]
Read More‘No limits’ browser planned
A new browser will be released that claims to be able to circumvent censorship on Internet usage. This can be used by people living under restrictive regimes or those who want to share files.
Read MoreNewsweek: The Portals Into China
Newsweek International October 13th issue has an article written by Sarah Schafer on China Internet Portals . How are they making profits and why the global investers find this is a safe way to make a Chinese Internet play. Is this going to be another bubble?
Read MoreChina is ready to send human into the space
AP reported on Thursday October 9th that after 11 years of planning, China’s first manned space flight could come down to this: one man, a two-pound sack of seeds and a single 90-minute loop around the planet.
Read MoreNew Global Internet Statistics
A on-line Marketing company Global Reach recently published an global on-line population statistics. Here is a summary of the number of people in each language zone connected to the Net, and what this online population represents worldwide: English†† 262.3 M (35.6% of total world online population) Non-English 474.3 M (64.4%) European Languages† 257.41 M† (34.9%) […]
Read MoreGovernment sponsored Internet media forum open in Beijing
According to Xinhua’s report , The 2003 China Internet Media Forum opened in Beijing Friday. This is the third conference as such, this year’s topic is “social responsibility of the Chinese Internet media.” The two-day forum is co-sponsored by the All-China Journalists’ Association and major Chinese news portals like those run by People’s Daily, Xinhua […]
Read MoreDetained Shanghai Petitioners in Hunger Strike
The relocation of residents in China has become a real issue in many areas.
Read MoreChinese people going online
The three portals are not the only ones affected by this digital revolution, it’s also transforming business, government and culture.
Read MoreSMS in China
Victor Wang, the CEO of MTone, the largest SMS service provider in China gave a talk today, and he made some very interesting points. SMS is a very different communication model from the web, and out of the 250 million mobile users in China today, 70% do not use the Internet or infrequently. Thus, SMS […]
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