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NY Times David Barboza: Mr. Wei’s widow. . .said she had been ordered by the government not to talk to the media. . Mr. Wei is now being hailed as a brave “citizen journalist” and a martyr. [Some] are saying justice came because of the publicity raised by bloggers, pursuing their own brand of justice.

Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) is a private laboratory in Kyoto Prefecture Japan.

The company has developed Internet software for cell phones that translates ....

It's 11 pm...the phone rings...you're tired, you have to be up the next morning at 7, you're ready for a good night sleep. You decide to ignore it...but then, 1 minute later, they call back again, and again, and again. Aiiiyaaa! Is there any logic behind the cell phone insanity?

A dissection of David Brooks' recent critique of the Chinese 'corpocracy'. Brooks says the best path to wealth is joining the Communist Party. Josh says that's so 1997.

Shanghai has built China's first outdoor testing facilty for fourth generation (4G) mobile phone technology.

4G phones will enable users to:

A crackdown on cell phone spam is coming. Should the spam landscape change for the better, ironically, it could be a good time for marketers to spam.

A new report out of Beijing is loosening the government's choke-hold on public outcry. "China's State Council on Friday approved a new regulation designed to make it easier for the public to lodge complaints against what they deem unjust government decisions.

According to the Regulation on Implementing Administrative Review Law, the public has the right to ask the government to review its actions and decisions that they believe have infringed upon their rights."

A Chinese thief has returned a mobile phone and thousands of yuan he stole from a woman after she sent him 21 touching text messages, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

As China's ruling Communist Party holds its most important conclave in five years, the government has launched an unusually harsh crackdown on potential troublemakers, say Chinese and international huuman rights groups.

Scores, perhaps hundreds, of petitioners, democracy activists, religious figures, and humaan rights workers have been abducted, imprisoned, or confined to their homes over the past six weeks, according to rights monitors.