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- You want freedom? Come and get it
- I was as hard on Google as anyone about its decision to censor content on its search engine in China, Google.cn. I applaud Sergey Brin today saying that maybe, just maybe, it was unethical to do so, after all. John Battelle says: "My, my, my." I say, "more,...
- Tags: CHINESE, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
- Google China policy: Sergey Brin vs. Eric Schmidt
- According to Associated Press reports, “Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.” Brin reportedly made such comments while meeting with reporters...
- Tags: Chinese User, CHINESE, Google Inc., Sergey Brin
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
- The cost of a bicycle
- In a talkback about the top ten technology trends in Unix today, contributor "Southernpride" talks despairingly about American debt to Chinese interests and thus backdoors in the whole out-sourcing, off-shoring, and related economic issues agenda. I don't agree with him on this; on the contrary I believe that...
- Tags: AMERICAN, CHINESE, Southernpride
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- Is censorship bad for the economy of a country?
- Technorati, the web services company that tracks the blogosphere, has been tracking which languages are being used. And the findings are very interesting, and there are lots of them. Can you guess which is the most popular language? Here is a post from David Sifry, CEO of Technorati, on the...
- Tags: CHINESE, blogosphere
- Blog posts 2006-05-02
- Chinese control of domain names
- It is rumored that China has recently created its own top-level domain root servers for .cn, .com and .net extensions, ostensibly in order to avoid having to "surf the Web via the servers under the management of ICANN of the U.S." I somehow doubt that is the real reason....
- Tags: CHINESE, serverS
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
- Arguing about arguing about China
- Harry Tsao, co-founder of a comparison shopping Web site with operations in China, says in a ZD Net editorial. "It is hard to see anything constructive that will come out of these public discussions." If companies do start spending time lobbying, rather...
- Tags: CHINESE, censorship
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- Retail spending in China to reach $1.2 trillion in 2010
- Chinese retail spending is expected to grow by more than 11% per year to reach 10 trillion yuan ($1.2 trillion) in 2010. Domestic retail spending now accounts for some 33% of Chinese spending, way below the 80% figure seen in the US. China's trade surplus rose by 47% to $9.49...
- Tags: CHINESE
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- One step ahead of Chinese censors
- Even as multibillion companies take part in China's censorship of the Internet, a small group of dissidents and volunteers are doing what they can to protect Chinese surfers and open up the Internet in China, Business Week reports this week. Headed by Chinese expat Bill Xia, Dynamic Internet Technologies is...
- Tags: Bill Xia, DIT, CHINESE
- Blog posts 2006-02-13
- Two takes on China
- Google sent its explanation of its China censorship decision to Congress in lieuWhen Anonymizer does have products available in China, everyone will remember and trust the company. of a representative to participate in a Congressional Human Rights Caucus, about Human Rights and the Internet - The...
- Tags: CHINESE, Google Inc., Anonymizer Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
- Gates won't cross China government
- Bill and Melinda Gates, along with Bono, were honored at the "Persons of the Year" by Time Magazine for their good works. "For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow,...
- Tags: CHINESE, Bill Gates, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-01-28
- Microsoft capitulates to Chinese censors
- Free-speech activists are up in arms after hearing the news that Microsoft, capitulating to Chinese officials, shut down the blog of a Chinese citizen critical of government policies. Microsoft runs a web portal with almost 5 million boggers tapping away. The site applies advanced filtration technology to censor certain words;...
- Tags: Chinese Censors, blog, CHINESE
- Blog posts 2006-01-08
- Forbidden Language
- I have blogged before about the immoral actions of Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft in their drooling effort to capture the Chinese market. I am torn in the same way I am sure upper management at these Internet behemoths are. On the one hand the very existence of the Internet...
- Tags: Zhao Jing, blog, CHINESE
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
- Is China attacking military computers? Maybe not.
- Earlier this week, FCW.com published a story claiming that the Chinese government was engaged in a cyberwar with the U.S. military. The article quoted former Army chief of staff Jack Keene: "The Chinese were doing this on a regular basis. That’s a given. They’re very aggressively getting capability. It’s common...
- Tags: Chinese Government, computer, CHINESE
- Blog posts 2005-08-25
- Open source' Chinese wall
- One thing neither Joe nor I discussed with Greg Mancusi- Ungaro of Novell in recent interviews was the company's move into China. It's a move that makes sense, and raises few questions Novell might answer, save political ones. Novell's strategy for SUSE is based on desktops and many...
- Tags: CHINESE
- Blog posts 2005-08-18
- 64% of Chinese embedded developers write code for ARM
- 64% of the Chinese embedded system developers are currently using the ARM architecture for their embedded system development, the nearest competitor is being used by only 21% of designers, with this number increasing to 71% when respondents were asked which microprocessor architecture they were planning to use in the next...
- Tags: CHINESE
- Blog posts 2005-07-30
- Semiconductor sales by Chinese foundries to grow 7.8% in 2005
- Chinese foundries would increase their sales by 7.8% to $2.49 bln in 2005, iSuppli says. In 2004, the revenues grew 110% to $2.31 bln.
- Tags: CHINESE
- Blog posts 2005-07-01
- Chinese communications market to generate $68 bln in 2005
- China's communications market (including mobile phone, cellular base station and wireless local area network/wide area network (WLAN/WAN) equipment) is set to be worth more than $68 bln in 2005, up 27% from 2004, according to Global Sources. China will need $59 bln worth of integrated circuits ICs in 2005 to...
- Tags: mobile phone, CHINESE
- Blog posts 2005-03-15
- Chinese communications market to generate $68 bln in 2005
- China's communications market (including mobile phone, cellular base station and wireless local area network/wide area network (WLAN/WAN) equipment) is set to be worth more than $68 bln in 2005, up 27% from 2004, according to Global Sources. China will need $59 bln worth of integrated circuits ICs in 2005 to...
- Tags: CHINESE, mobile phone
- Blog posts 2005-03-15
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- News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Update on Chinese wallboard with a side order of sulphur
- buy more China products!Hey China rocks, I love 'made in China'!!!Bring it home to China!BUY CHINA productsYou will help devalue the dollar even more,it is ranked 48 in the world.BUY C H I N A productsYou will help devalue the dollar even more,it is ranked 48 in the world.Good griefThe...
- Tags: Quality, American-made
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
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