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- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?
- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?A reader repliesI received this in email from a user who apparently wishes not to go through ZDNet registration. So here's my policy: I will not engage in private debate through email on the content of blogs. I will post the...
- Tags: E-mail, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?
- Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...
- Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-Privacy
- The next great privacy tempest seems like a yawner: What will happen with the data gathered by social networking or personal information services that track where you and your friends are? Like with TV, if you don't like what you're gonna get, don't get into it. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Service, Telecom & Utilities, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- More worries for Beijing visitors
- If you are headed to or already at the Olympic Games and you weren't worried by my Tech Tips for Beijing Visitors at the end of last month, maybe you should be now, In telling the Wall Street Journal's readers "Don't Forget About China's Dissidents," Ellen Bork...
- Tags: olympic games, hard drive, analysis, government, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- On eve of Olympics, Internet companies agree to code of conduct
- Internet companies have reached agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for doing business in China and other repressive countries, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced yesterday. "I commend Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and other participants for agreeing on the principles of an internet freedom code of conduct,"...
- Tags: Google Inc., Censorship, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Code Of Conduct, Internet, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Yahoo wants dissidents' case dismissed
- Yahoo wants dissidents' case dismissedUnfortunately...Too bad the PRC is not on trial here in place of Yahoo.Yahoo had to comply... simple as that.This isn't akin to a US company dumping toxic chemicals on foreign soil... or something of that caliber.If Yahoo had not complied, they could have had all of...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer?
- Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer?You're so funnyFor such a doomed company, their stocks are soaring higher than ever."only works when you can eat or harm other companies"Same for Google : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitionsFor such an un-innovative company, I guess you've never seen Live Image and Video...
- Tags: Branding, Financial accounting, strategy, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses
- It isn't often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that's what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the...
- Tags: Security, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, BGP, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression
- Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-02-17
- Yahoo+layoffs%3A+%27The+ultimate+poison+pill%27%3F
- Yahoo+layoffs%3A+%27The+ultimate+poison+pill%27%3FMS did not want the talent. Well, at least they realised that alot of the best talent would leave anyway. They are buying the email accounts and the eyeballs at Yahoo.com.That said, some of these choices do see rather strange. I did not think they would be laying of these...
- Tags: Workforce management, Investment, Web technology, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., layoff
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Yahoo settles with dissident families, but it may be responsible for hundreds of arrests
- Yahoo has settled with the families of two Chinese dissidents it helped put in a Chinese prison. Terms of the deal with the families of Shin Tao, Wang Xiaoning and Yu Ling weren't announced, according to Reuters. "Plaintiffs and defendants hereby jointly stipulate to...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Litigation, Free Trade, Business Operations, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China
- Can moral "pigmies" and "police informants" attract the best and brightest talent? Just in case you missed it, last week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and its chief lawyer Michael Callahan were called to Washington DC to explain to lawmakers why Yahoo! helped the Chinese government arrest...
- Tags: Hiring, Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-11-10
- China's cyberwar: Is it all that surprising?
- China's cyberwar: Is it all that surprising?Why blog about it?Who cares? As long as Americans continue to be in love with the "sell for less" concept that essentially equals buying products made in China because you can save a couple bucks, they are in no position to complain about what...
- Tags: irony, cyberwar, free trade, IS IT, Cuba
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
- 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
- Climb mount buffer?
- Climb mount buffer?Those super-reliable DellsQUOTE: The Dell web servers are powered by Intel Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors running a Microsoft NT/IIS solution. Same source. I'm sure trading is still done on a *nix platform, but the data is still dated...maybe you need to read thishttp://whitepapers.zdnet.co.uk/0,1000000651,260061063p,00.htmWith time tight,...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Processors, Microsoft Windows 2000, attack, software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., server
- Discussion threads 2007-06-26
- Having aidied in arrest, Yahoo now criticizes China for jailing journalist
- Going against the grain of its fellow search engine giants, Yahoo has publically criticized China for punishing citizens who expressing their political views on the Internet, reports the Associated PressThe announcement comes after the mother of Chinese reporter Shi Tao announced she was suing Yahoo for helping officials imprison her...
- Tags: China
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- MySpace China, a place for censorship
- The look and feel of MySpace China may resemble its US cousin, but its editorial policy couldnt be more different. Perhaps an inevitable concession to doing business in the country, News Corp. and its local Chinese partners have implemented filtering software to prohibit users from discussing topics such as Taiwanese...
- Tags: Social Networks, Net culture, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- Chinese dissidents sue Yahoo over collaboration with China
- Chinese dissidents sue Yahoo over collaboration with ChinaYahoo "just following orders""Companies doing business in China must comply with Chinese law or its local employees could be faced with civil and criminal penalties," yahoo said in a statement about the lawsuit. Sounds like officers in Nazi army at war crimes trial....
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Chinese Dissident, collaboration
- Discussion threads 2007-04-21
- 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
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