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From Thomas Crampton: Only six percent of the Chinese Internet’s hyperlinks leave China’s webspace.
Rebecca McKinnon profiles blogger Liu Xiaoyuan, who is suing his blog host for censoring content. He says the Chinese constitution doesn't allow such censorship (good luck with that one). In looking at Liu, McKinnon outlines some of the complexities that make China's information control regime so
A number of global research firms, including Goldman Sachs, Forrester, Gartner, AMR Research and Wachovia Securities have suggested in separate research reports that Indian IT majors are outpacing their rivals in the US as well as other low-cost counties like China.
I keep watching the history channel and am never ceased to be amazed by what I can learn about Chinese history and its technological prowess in ancient times--particularly about Chinese tower ships.
While the hi-tech world is swooning at Steve Jobs' feet after the dramatic unveiling of Apple's iPhone, your correspondent is cursing and swearing in front of his Mac keyboard, wishing that Apple's famous engineers and designers would turn their attention to some very real Mac problems that bese
One should be careful to equate fast growth, large numbers, and impressive actions with that of how China will overtake other first world nations in the near future. Strong growth now, does not mean it will continue to do so in the future.
Yes, the growth and money put into China has been tremen
I happened upon a podcast interview over at Thomas Crampton’s blog of Duncan Hewitt, veteran China correspondent and best-selling author of Getting Rich First, who thinks that money and angry people will play a growing role in the battle against China’s Great Firewall. Though I agree with his comme
The Great Firewall censors content at three levels. Nine Internet Access Providers supply Internet to China–and each IAP is connected to a foreign Internet source. Each IAP is connected to thousands of Internet Service Providers, which sell internet to Chinese users. The first level of The Great
This Chinese farmer, just outside of Beijing, spends all his time building robots. From a tiny little robotic dog to a massive cart pulling robotic man... it amazes me to think he learned it all himself.
All messed up? Blame it on the "yellow spies"!
The story of how a once obscure search engine has come to be the most-visited site in China. This site supposedly trounces Google and Yahoo in the Middle Kingdom. The kicker, though, is that it mixes ads into your search results and lets the censors do what they please. Very interesting.
Can a country building high-end jet fighters and talking of a mission to mine the moon still call itself a developing country? China can, or at least, it does.
So, before we all start worshiping the iPhone from afar, Rick points to a Chinese version that looks curiously similar, with comparable specs and a lower price. Check out the picture to go with it.
China's People's National Development and Reform Commission invests in technology companies in order to boost national competitiveness.
Chinese Internet users are frequently subject to the censorship system known as The Great Firewall. This system prevents them from accessing foreign news sites, and anything that the Communist Party deems 'unsuitable' or 'destabilizing.' This new YouTube video instructs Chinese netizens how to
HONG KONG (Al'Reuters) - It was only a matter of time: China is catching Blackberry fever. And like most other things in that burgeoning economy, it's likely to be at cut-rate prices.
