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- Will Apple find El Dorado in Beijing?
- China has long been an El Dorado, the untapped market that will bring black ink flowing into the quarterly financial reports. At the end of the month, Apple will make it real in China with the launch of the iPhone 3GS with partner China Unicom. by David Morgenstern
- Tags: China, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, Financial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Perot Systems acquires BearingPoint's China consulting unit
- Perot Systems, set to be acquired by Dell, said it is acquiring BearingPoint's China consulting unit out of bankruptcy. BearingPoint, which is currently in bankruptcy, has a China consulting unit that was formed in 2001 statement. BearingPoint China Consulting specializes in the energy, automotive, insurance and financial...
- Tags: China, Perot Systems Corp., Consulting, BearingPoint Inc., Consulting Unit, BearingPoint China Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Recycling in China?
- Not much apparently. Perhaps we could ship a few billion of those blue recycling bins that are now so prevalent around America. Landfills are so 1980. China has such low labor costs sorting trahs for recycling could even be done by hand. Bet they don't even...
- Tags: China, Recycling, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Green Dam enforcement watered down
- The Chinese government's Green Dam-Youth Escort content filtering initiative is facing some hurdles as target organizations are without, or have uninstalled the software. The Chinese government's Green Dam-Youth Escort content filtering initiative, where the software was to be installed in public schools and Internet cafes, is facing some hurdles...
- Tags: Content Filtering, Government, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Green Dam, China, privacy, Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia
- News items 2009-10-09
- Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun
- Is there more wind power in our future? Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, says we can cut our greenhouse emissions 80% by 2020, if we use the wind that's just out there for the world to use. Brown says "Ask what can be done, NOT...
- Tags: China, Plant, Wind Energy, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- Chinese hackers launch targeted attacks against foreign correspondents
- According to an assessment published by the Information Warfare Monitor, Chinese hacktivists politically motivated hackers have recently launched a targeted malware attack against foreign news correspondents attempting to trick them into executing a malware-embedded PDF attachment (Interview list.pdf), coming from a non-existent editor working for The Straits Times. ...
- Tags: China, Malware, Hacker, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Hot air balloons rise from United Nations
- Hot air balloons of the "trial balloon" type in the verrrry political world of climate change diplomacy. The heads of state from the world's two biggest air polluters--China and U.S.--made strong statements about global warming. They are clearly not in favor of it. Meanwhile, the head of...
- Tags: U.S., China, Japan, Global Warming, U.N., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Former GOOG chief transforms into China's top angel investor
- Kai-Fu Lee leaves Google China to become the largest angel investor in China - plugging an essential gap in Chinese innovation. by Tom Foremski
- Tags: China, Google Inc., Angel Investor, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- iNews China 1.0 (Mobile)
- iNews China gives access to feeds of China section of most admired news sources. By default it provides news feeds of the China sections from providers like China News, Financial Times, SCMP, China Tech News, Google, Big News Network, and OECD. This application has features like get latest news of...
- Tags: China, Mobile, Newsfeed, PLAVEB, E-mail, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-09-07
- China secretly requires real names to post comments
- China has secretely issued orders, now being carried out, that news sites collect real names and ID numbers from users seeking to comment on stories. by Richard Koman
- Tags: China, Name, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-05
- In China, Apple enters crowded mobile market
- Apple has nearly cleared the hurdles to begin selling its popular iPhone handset in China, one of the last major phone markets Apple has yet to enter, according to the Wall Street Journal. As many Americans know, the iPhone is Apple's fastest-growing product....
- Tags: U.S., China, Apple iPhone, Mobile, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Dell alleged smartphone move into China: Not as crazy as it sounds
- Does Dell stand a chance in China? Yes. Why? Ron Garriques, Dell's president of the global consumer business, used be Motorola's main man in China. Garriques helped launch the Motorola MOTOMING touchscreen device in China back in 2006. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Touch Screen, China, Dell Computer Corp., Smart Phone, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- China explodes Green Dam
- In a rare retreat, it now looks like the Chinese government has given up on Green Dam-Youth Escort. The New York Times reports that the information technology and industry minister, Li Yizhong, said the idea that the program would be required to be installed on all computers...
- Tags: Software, China, Computer Company, Computer, Productivity, Government, Tools & Techniques, Regulations, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Don't inhale...those emissions wafting in from China
- They are apparently running out of landfill space in China. So now they plan to burn all the trash left over after they make stuff to sell to Americans. And then the fumes in the air just naturally drift around the globe. Among the stuff they're putting...
- Tags: China, Landfill, Pollution, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- IBM: re-training for our future
- IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...
- Tags: China, Beijing, Rail, IBM Corp., Dierkx, Government, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- Smartphone battleground: Apple and Google head to China
- The Apple vs. Google smartphone race is coming to China - and from early reports, it looks like Apple is eyeing the rougher road to the top. According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple couldn't come to a revenue-sharing agreement with the big dog mobile...
- Tags: China, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., China Mobile Ltd., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Lenovo: Enterprise demand remains weak; China a bright spot
- Lenovo reported a first quarter net loss as revenue skidded 18 percent because of weak enterprise spending. The company reported a net loss of $16 million, or 18 cents a share, in the first quarter, on revenue of $3.5 billion. Lenovo, which remains tethered to...
- Tags: China, Lenovo Group Ltd., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Sales, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Gallery: Mutant Clones from China
- One of the most interesting groups of technologists in China are the shanzhai. They form small companies which cluster together in larger groups, trying to produce new gizmos so fast that nobody can quite catch up with them. by ZDNet
- Tags: China, Group, Shanzhai, gadgets, ZDNet
- Image galleries 2009-08-04
- Taobao.com Runs China's Busiest Data Warehouse on 20 Node Database Cluster
- Founded in 2003 by Alibaba.com, Taobao.com is Asia's largest online shopping Web site. The company engages in Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) and Business-To-Consumer (B2C) trading and has a 70% share of the online market in China. Taobao.com has used Oracle Database and clusterware products since 2004, building an enterprise data warehouse to...
- Tags: China, Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Taobao.com, B2C, Databases, Storage, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- China's Green Dam and the cyberwar implications
- Guest editorial by Oliver Day Chinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People's Liberation Army. Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the...
- Tags: Software, China, Vulnerability, Computer, Chinese Internet, Green Dam, Government, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Vertical Industries, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
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