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- Chinese antitrust and Microsoft
- Chinese antitrust and MicrosoftTo the previous poster...Truer words have never been spoken posted this at the wrong levelIrony...Chinese Government is the biggest monopoly of all.RE: Chinese antitrust and Microsoftwhy would China care about the retail price of microsoft products in light of such cheery articles as these: "only 244...
- Tags: Corporate law, Regulations, Microsoft Corp., Chinese antitrust, antitrust, Chinese Government
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- A life destroyed: State employee acquitted of child porn charges
- A life destroyed: State employee acquitted of child porn charges....This is really sad. But it speaks volumes to any that are willing to listen and pay attention. Good luck to this man on getting his life back and reparations for damages incurred through no fault of his own. ]:)
- Tags: child-porn charge, child pornography
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Buying from the enemy
- Buying from the enemygoing where no nation ever couldYou've said it. The PRC (People's Republic of China) has unlimited resources to do its damage.Unlike Nazi Germany or the old Soviet Union, however, China has several things going for it. One, lots of people, many of them very smart,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Chinese Government, Buying, ruler, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- China Lottery Online Supports 60 Million Transactions a Day Using Grid Technology
- The Chinese Government is promoting the welfare lottery system through over-the-counter sales and newer online applications. China Lottery Online Technology Co., Ltd is responsible for developing, operating, and maintaining online lottery issue and distribution systems. The online lottery has become one of the fastest growing games in China. To ensure...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Lottery, Chinese Government, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Storage, Databases, Sales, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Summer Davos in Dalian China
- Last week I was in Dalian, China for the World Economic Forum Inaugural Meeting of the New Champions. That's a mouthful, so the Chinese simply called it the "Summer Davos". It makes sense as this feels very much like Davos only a bit smaller and slightly more relaxed and less...
- Tags: China, Venture Capital, Davos, World Economic Forum, Dalian China, John Newton
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Pentagon was hacked, some say by China
- Pentagon was hacked, some say by ChinaWould be interesting to see the evidenceI would, of course, expect the Chinese government to deny any involvement, regardless of whether or not they were.NoMoreChinaNoMoreMexicansNoMoreBush NO MORE!!!!!Gosh, China wouldn't do that, would they. I thought they were our business friends. I know,...
- Tags: SECURITY, Chinese Government, Pentagon
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- Yahoo wants dissidents' case dismissed
- Yahoo wants a federal court to dismiss Chinese dissident Shi Tao's complaint against the company for allegedly facilitating his arrest by Chinese authorities. Yahoo Monday filed a 51-page motion to dismiss, claiming that Shi's problem is with Chinese authorities and that the case has "no place in American courts." ...
- Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Government, Sklar, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- In China, spying on citizens moves to a new level
- China Public Security Technology sounds like the R&D outfit of some nameless, faceless Communist bureaucracy. It is after all the organization that is deploying 20,000 surveillance cameras along streets in Shenzhen in southern China along with software to do facial recognition. It is also the outfit that is programming the...
- Tags: China, Citizen, Cell Phone, Identity Card, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Microsoft's success in China
- Microsoft appears to be making inroads in the Chinese market. According to a blog post over at Tech Republic, Microsoft, through aggressive price reductions and a willingness to grant more access to source code, has managed to convince the Chinese government to use Windows and Office. Similarly, Microsoft has opted...
- Tags: Open Source, Microsoft, Economic Policy
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- The sinking dollar and offshoring
- The sinking dollar and offshoringWon't make any differenceTo a well-run shop, the [u]cost[/u] of engineering services comes a very distant second to the value received: delays or low-quality work cost so much more than a salary that it's a sucker's bet.The problem is, most corporate management either has no idea...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Protectionism, offshoring, salary, Chinese Government, Microsoft Corp., job
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- ODF, OOXML...and now UOF?
- UOF, or Uniform Office Format, is a document format created by the Chinese government that has catapulted to prominence, at least in China, due to its use by government and a Chinese population making greater use of computing technology. Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman, has called for the merging of...
- Tags: Office 2007, Office, ODF
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Chinese dissidents sue Yahoo over collaboration with China
- In a precedent-setting suit against Yahoo, a Chinese political prisoner and his wife are accusing the Internet company of assisting Chinese authorities identify political dissidents who were later tortured and jailed, reports the New York Times. The defendants, Wang Xiaoning, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for...
- Tags: Government technology, China, Censorship
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Yahoo sued over jailing, torture of Chinese dissident
- Yahoos compliance with the wishes of the Chinese government back in 2002 -- a move that may have resulted in the 10 year jail sentence and alleged torture of Wang Xiazoning, born in 1951 -- has come home to roost in a California courtroom. IDGs Jeremy Kirk reports:The...
- Tags: Legal, Web technology, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Yahoo and Google should not endanger their Chinese users
- One of the most powerful images of the 20th Century is "Tank Man" the man that walked out in front of a column of tanks -- a day after the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. He walked into the middle of a pedestrian crossing, with...
- Tags: Silicon Valley
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Why economic development leads to democracy
- Why economic development leads to democracyRe: Despotic[i]Saudi royals create economic development - yet their state is quite repressive. It helps to be rich in natural resources!So it seems that being rich in natural resources USSR was too can negate the economic forces that you speak of.[/i]Too true. In...
- Tags: Chinese Government, natural resource, U.S.S.R., democracy
- Discussion threads 2006-08-18
- Human-rights group targets China cooperation
- Human-rights group targets China cooperationBut....Cool... but aren't these all companies... not goverments?Let's learn Chinese to speak by ourselvesWow... this articles features ads from Chinese companies in Beijing that want use to learn Chinese online and give diplomas!Will the Chinese professors accept that we include texts opposed to official policies of...
- Tags: Chinese Government
- Discussion threads 2006-07-20
- Yahoo cited in jailing of China Internet writer
- Yahoo cited in jailing of China Internet writerNew World Order At Its FinestPretty soon anything you say here or abroad will be held against you. Just another fine example of human rights going down the toilet in favor of the one world government.Way to go Yahoo...by the way, your...
- Tags: Chinese Communist Government, American Laws, Yahoo! Inc., Chinese Government
- Discussion threads 2006-04-28
- Microsoft lays out $900 million in Chinese investments
- Microsoft lays out $900 million in Chinese investmentsMicrosoft lays out $900 million in Chinese investmentsJust part of Microsoft's overall plan to get mobile PCs everywhere. It is definitely going to help the Oragami project. Expect to see a lot more portable devices coming from Microsoft.Banner move...My rep just...
- Tags: Government, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Workforce management, Mike Cox, Microsoft Corp., Chinese Investment, Chinese Government
- Discussion threads 2006-04-26
- Yahoo accused of helping jail another Chinese writer
- Yahoo accused of helping jail another Chinese writerWow, those darn companiesdon't you hate them all that have done similar and such? Equally.Another case ...Al-Jazeera's website was hosted on a US server and had a mirror site in Australia. During the Iraq war, both the companies refused to host Al-Jazeera's website....
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Yahoo! Inc., Chinese writer, communist, Chinese Government, Google Inc., Al-Jazeera
- Discussion threads 2006-04-19
- Yahoo pressured over China cooperation
- Yahoo pressured over China cooperationShame on all those corporationsUnfortunately, Yahoo is only one among many.[i]First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a communist;Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-- because...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Yahoo! Inc., Tank Man, Chinese Government
- Discussion threads 2006-04-12
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