From SFGate.com: When Xiao Rong started China’s seminal punk band Brain Failure, he was a teenager. That was years ago, when nobody had ever seen anything like the mohawk and the studded-leather belt Xiao sported around Beijing. Living on American fast food and pirated CDs, Xiao was one of the first Chinese youth to write […]
Read MoreCNETAsia reported on Tuesday October 21, 2003 that e-commerce sites in China are on a growth path. The article quoted members of China’s e-commerce association. According to them, Web sites like on-line bookstore dangdang.com and Chinese domain name service provider 3721.com have proven to be successful.
Read MoreSweeping reforms to China’s press industry are threatening to put hundreds of regional newspapers out of business. Full text on BBC NEWS
Read MoreMultinationals looking to set up shop in China may do well to check their global supply chains at the door. Experiences shared at a recent Electronics Supply Chain Association (ESCA) roundtable in Sunnyvale, Calif., indicate that cultural differences, government red tape, and a lack of infrastructure continue to represent barriers to foreign companies that are […]
Read MoreAbout 85 percent of all computers in China have been infected with viruses and widespread Internet use ensures that the number is growing, according to the country’s state media. The number of infected computers, based on a two-month survey conducted in the middle of the year, is up 1.6 percent from 2002 and 25.6 percent […]
Read MoreGuangming Daily — a government owned publication — claims that once citizens of China are better enabled to use their native language to access the Internet, small-to-medium sized businesses in that country will be able to reap the economic benefits of having a web presence. Additionally, this “sinicization” of the Internet will help the web […]
Read MoreInteresting piece on how China is taking over as a premier creator of engineers. It’s an LA Times piece, so registration is required. China’s Technological Ambitions Take Flight Factoid: >Rob Koepp, a scholar at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, points out a statistic. “China graduates 450,000 engineers each year ò as many as the […]
Read MoreThe availability of these new phones can enable SMS to move up to MMS in the near future.
Read MoreSuccessful 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 MoreChinese 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 MoreThis 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 MoreThe 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 MoreAnd 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 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 MoreA 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.
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