Here’s one of the areas where Baidu is actually behind in its own market comparative to Google (unlike my previous post on how Google is so far behind in understanding China and in localizing the Chinese market).

A Chinese-American in the US army is blogging from Iraq in Chinese. And apparently drawing a lot of curiosity from Chinese readers.

I miss facets of streaming TV. That part of scheduled entertainment will forever be ingrained in my habits. Entertainment on demand does, to an extent, strip the expectation and suspense from the enjoyment on a show.

VERY COOL! Formerly blurry Google Maps page of Shanghai now shows fully detailed roads.

if the analysts are right, everyone in China may have the Youtube plug pulled on Jan 31, and unlike the outage before, it may not come back until Youtube signs on with a state owned media group.

When China launched its first microprocessor, the Godson 1 in 2002, it wasn't much of a competitor to what Intel and AMD had to offer. The 64bit Godson 2, released in 2005, still didn't worry the Western chip makers, but the chip did start to pop up here and there outside of China.

The magic day has arrived - 08/08/08 - and like some Torch-ignited wildfire, a meme has spread across the Twittersphere whereby you include #080808 in all your twits to show your support and excitement for the Olympic Games.

Based on the tremendously successful Firefox 3, the China Edition is a super-charged version that provides a whole range of benefits to Internet users in China. Note there are both a Chinese version and an English version, and we provide downloads that run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The English version also has the same services targeted at users in China.

A lawyer in Beijing is bringing criminal charges against Microsoft after the company "blacked-out" the backgrounds of illegal copies of Windows in China through its automatic update function.

It might seem odd, even absurd to the point of unbelievability, but according it's true. Washington and Beijing are currently working on a joint UN proposal that could bring an end to Internet anonymity.