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China's riskiest space mission yet
Blog China is about to launch Shenzhou VII, its third manned space mission. Not that we don't all feel the same way, but China is rather better at it than most. i know from correspondence that a lot of you are as passionate about space exploration as am I.
[September 22, 2008, 21:54]
China gets 4G? Come again?
Blog According to this Reuters piece, China is "leapfrogging" 3G in favour of, er, 4G. I know China doesn't really have to worry too much about the rest of the world due to the size of its internal market, but the rest of the world is certainly still...
[January 29, 2007, 13:37]
Indian officials accuse China of cyber attacks
Blog China is actively engaged in mapping India's computer networks, according to the Times of India. China is mounting "almost daily" attacks against Indian Government computer systems, including scanning networks for possible vulnerabilties to exploit...
[May 6, 2008, 12:38]
US military warns of China electronic warfare capability
Blog The US Department of Defence has warned of China's increasingly complex electronic warfare capabilities. In its 2007 report to congress entitled "Military Power of the People’s Republic of China", the US military said that the People's Liberation...
[May 29, 2007, 17:29]
UK, US, Russia, China - surveillance blackspots
Blog A report by Privacy International has again found the UK to be up there with such enlightened regimes as Russia, China, and the US in terms of how intrusive surveillance is in our society. Ok, China and Russia have a worse human rights reputation...
[January 2, 2008, 17:32]
IDF Day Zero: Of Intel China, Carrying Small and Living Large
Blog Our adventure starts with Ian Yang of Intel China giving it large on the History of Intel. Intel and China growing together heart to heart. The modern China equipped with technology will continue to shine in the word.
[April 1, 2008, 20:46]
Of Microsoft, china pigs and hungry bears
Blog Here's a question worth asking. In 2017, what and how big will Microsoft's major revenue streams be? Even discounting hindsight, that's a lot harder to answer than the same question ten years ago: As Vista has proven, XP is good enough: that wasn't...
[August 28, 2007, 16:51]
Wikipedia blocked in China -- again
Blog From the Reporters Without Borders Internet Freedom desk. Numbers of Chinese Internet-users are reporting that they can no longer connect to either the Chinese or English versions of the collaborative encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
[November 17, 2006, 16:38]
Visions of China
Blog IDF Beijing: what silicon prawns are going to be sizzling on the platter of publicity(*)? Tons of 45nm - mobile, desktop, server, quadcore, dualcore, bigger caches, faster buses, better energy efficiency.
[April 12, 2007, 18:31]
Chinese gov't in further Green Dam concessions
Blog PC makers will no longer have to pre-install Green Dam censorware on PCs in China, the government has announced. The official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday that Li Yizhong, China's minister of industry and information technology, had...
[August 13, 2009, 17:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog China crisis? What China crisis? National pride's at stake -- Zhu Lilan, Minister of Science and Technology, said "People say the moon is rounder than the one in China. Monday Let's not worry about American spy planes, American arms sales, American...
[May 4, 2001, 16:02]
One flight later...
Blog I'm in China as a guest of Huawei, one of the Middle Kingdom's most exuberant technology companies. For context, Cisco is 54,000 strong, recently announced $9.6 billion revenue for its first trading quarter this year, up around 17 percent on this...
[November 20, 2007, 0:46]
Tigers to spring on 'anti-competitive' Microsoft?
Blog Organisations in Taiwan and China seem to be tensing their muscles to spring onto Microsoft and go for the software giant's throat -- metaphorically of course. The China Post reported on Saturday that a consumer group in Taiwan had filed a...
[August 19, 2008, 17:43]
Have you seen the Chinese Firefox?
Blog There are Chinese web browsers, of course: there are about 250 million Internet users in China. Li Gong has in his time been chief Java security at Sun, before returning to China to head up Sun's research there, and then running Microsoft's MSN in...
[November 19, 2008, 16:40]
Finding your way with Chinese GPS
Blog Nature reports today that the Chinese authorities are cracking down on foreign researchers doing environmental monitoring in China. The reason given is that people have been selectively publishing data that puts China in a deliberately bad light.
[February 20, 2008, 20:05]
Chinese lawyer to take Symantec to court over XP file deletion
Blog According to China View, Liu Shihui, a lawyer with the Hongmian Law Firm in southern Guangdong Province, is seeking 1,644 yuan (£108) to compensate for losses caused when his computer was allegedly paralyzed on the evening of May 18 due to a...
[June 4, 2007, 15:19]
Well now we know what the new Skype CEO does all day long with his head ***
Blog Sorry I just cannot believe that the Skype CEO Josh Silverman did not know that all the logging of Skype traffic in China was going on and if he did not then what does he do all day long walk around with his head stuck up you know where.No wait...
[October 6, 2008, 8:03]
HP darknet 'not for dissidents'
Blog One of the co-developers of HP's browser-based darknet told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the encrypted file-sharing technology should not be used by protesters to mask communications in places such as Iran or China.
[July 28, 2009, 16:52]
Opera censors Chinese content
Blog Previously Opera Mini had run on Opera servers located outside the country, bypassing the Great Firewall of China, the BBC added. Microsoft's Bing censors Chinese search results even outside of China, according to Ars Technica, while Google set up...
[November 25, 2009, 16:37]
Lenovo repurchases mobile phone arm
Blog According to the company, Lenovo Mobile is the number three handset maker in China. We will launch these innovative new products in China soon. Lenovo has bought back the mobile phone arm that it sold to a private equity firm at the start of 2008...
[November 30, 2009, 16:37]
