Nicholas Kristof had a column on NYT today, started from his experiment/experience in Chinese chat rooms. He tried several versions of criticism on Wen Jiabao to test the tolerance of China’s online censors. His conclusion? “…that’s (the Internet) the frontier of free speech in China in the information age, and it reflects real progress. ” […]
Read More“Twenty-five percent of Chinese city dwellers (especially small cities) are regular Internet users… Nearly 85% of them were below the age of 35. ” This is from the recent CINNIC survey. Xinhua’s English site China View had a article entitled “2003: Lifestyles of the young.” Here are some quotes from it. “The ever-expanding group of […]
Read MoreThis is not about Internet, but China. I got up early this morning (5 am) and the first unopened email in my mailbox was this link, sent from an emailing list I subscribed. It is a collection of photographs of poor and disadvantaged people in China, posted in one of the China’s literature BBSs. I […]
Read MoreChina is projected to be th second largest integrated circuit (IC) market in the world by 202, but the country wants to be a big producer of IC as well. Several domestic universities are already doing research in the area, and Beijing University just announced China’s first advanced CPU has been developed at the university’s […]
Read MoreChina encourages its local operates to adopt .cn domain names to simpify maintenance and get out of the crowded .com world. Now “websites using “cn” are increasing by 10,000 every month.”
Read MoreThe International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) has posted a special section on their Web site devoted to the World Summit on Information Society, which is currently under way in Geneva. The IFEX site contains resources and articles about the Internet, journalism ethics, censorship and other issues in an effort to “represent a cross-section of […]
Read More” Each click on the pages will be recorded in the company’s database, while the firm will also conduct off-line samples research to get the detailed information of the visitors, such as their sex, age, income and profession.” This quote is from a news article on Eastbay.com, the official Shanghai Daily’s English website yesterday. Here […]
Read MoreNokia’s 6108 is a new design that includes handwriting input. It is similar in form to the other Nokia 6000 models but is slightly thicker (8.8mm). I was able to find one review on this phone which states that the handwriting recognition software is too slow to be effective. The device does come with a […]
Read MoreAustralia’s The Age reports on China’s screening of SMS messages. The article states that “Any phone sending out more than 100 text messages an hour will be pinpointed by screening software and the contents read by officials within 15 minutes.” This action was spurred on by the group Falun Gong’s usage of SMS to communicate […]
Read MoreChinadaily published a news report from Xinhua today on China’s online game industry. The report said that China game industry were expected to make US$250 million this year. Here are some quotes from the report: “The companies are riding the surging popularity of online games among an estimated 40 million of China’s 78 million Internet […]
Read MoreNewly released statistics show that the number of Internet users in China has reached 78 million, according to the BBC.
Read MoreWeb activist Huang Qi was temporarily moved into solitary confinement recently following an attempted visit to him by French media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. The Chinese government imprisoned Huang Qi over two years ago for allowing his website to become a forum for political and religious dialogue. In recent months, China has intensified attacks on […]
Read MoreThe outsourcing of jobs to China and India has moved to new levels, affecting white collar workers in information technology who’ve traditionally felt invulnerable to the same plight that affected the manufacturing industry. This trend is fraught with thorny issues on all sides. No one can claim definitively that the professional jobs lost in the […]
Read MoreHere is a report from Seattlepi entitled “China pushes network encryption standards” It said “China has ordered equipment makers to use the country’s own encryption standards for wireless networks, ensuring stronger government control and giving domestic manufacturers a slight respite from some foreign competition. The new rules, which took effect Monday, apply to manufacturers at […]
Read MoreA group of Paried-based reporter tried to convince 14 Internet and computer companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and Yahoo not to sell technology or equipment that help Chinese government to monitor the Internet and censor information online. It remains to be seen how successful it will be.
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