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Chinese Go Online... In Force
News The report estimates four million Chinese went online in June 1999 and claims that number will have grown to between five and eight million by the end of the year. Earlier this year, the Chinese government was thought to have deliberately...
[July 15, 1999, 11:36]
China Opens Up To E-tail
News However, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) predicts the number of Chinese internet users will jump 46 percent to 86.3 million people by the end of the year -- an untapped resource which few e-tailers will be prepared to miss...
[March 11, 2003, 9:03]
Sophos Case Study: Openfind Information Technology
White Papers Openfind Information Technology, established in 1998 as one of the first commercial Chinese-language internet search services, offers internet-based products and services to ISPs in Taiwan. Mail2000 is an email system that Openfind developed as...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Novell Case Study: Chinese International School
White Papers At Chinese International School (CIS), technology is innate amongst CIS students and integrated in almost every lesson. With a massive number of students simultaneously storing and accessing their files on the school’s server, CIS needed a reliable...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
China Becoming Haven For Phishers
News A report from the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said that most of the sites are owned by people outside of China and that the country had become a haven for scammers. Security professionals in the Chinese National Computer Emergency Response...
[March 29, 2005, 12:35]
A Year Ago: Star Wars Fans Online In Line
News In an effort to get a jump on tickets to the upcoming Star Wars prequel, "The Phantom Menace," and still keep in touch with the online fan community, followers of the sci-fi epic say they've successfully installed Internet access to the line in...
[April 12, 2000, 7:00]
New ICANN Head Promises Greater Openness
News For example, the amount of trade that takes place across Asia Pacific is.at the trillion US dollar level, and the primary languages are Chinese, Korean, Japanese and English," said Twomey. ICANN has been criticised for ending the practise of online...
[March 20, 2003, 10:58]
Star Wars Fans Online In Line...
News In an effort to get a jump on tickets to the upcoming Star Wars prequel, "The Phantom Menace," and still keep in touch with the online fan community, followers of the sci-fi epic say they've successfully installed Internet access to the line in...
[April 12, 1999, 14:34]
Silence No Option On Chinese Censorship
Leader Already heavily regulated and monitored by its own army of IT spies, the Chinese Net will now carry only 'healthy' news that is in the 'national and public interest'. The Chinese state is effectively funding a huge laboratory for techniques of...
[September 28, 2005, 10:05]
Online Library Offers 1.5m Books For Free
News You're not going to find over 900,000 works in Chinese on Google," said Michael Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and director of intellectual property for the Universal Digital Library (UDL).
[November 28, 2007, 11:13]
Intel Sets Up Venture Capital Fund For China
News A growing number of Chinese companies have gone public on US exchanges in the past two years, with widely varying results. Shanda Interactive, a developer of online games, has seen its stock go from an $11 (£6) IPO price to more than $39 (£21), a...
[June 14, 2005, 15:15]
Yahoo Makes Billion Dollar China Move
News Yahoo is paying $1bn (£600m) for 40 percent of Chinese Web auctioneer Alibaba.com, taking on eBay and search firm Baidu.com as it extends its reach in the world's second-biggest Internet market. Alibaba hopes to outperform eBay and Google in the...
[August 11, 2005, 16:30]
China Creates Own Internet Domains
News It means Internet users don't have to surf the Web via the servers under the management of ICANN, of the US," reported the People's Daily Online, a Chinese Government-approved publication. China has announced it is creating a new set of domain...
[March 1, 2006, 13:35]
Symantec Takes Microsoft To Task Over Security
News Thompson also discussed Symantec's collaboration with Red Hat on Secure Server, and whether his company would compensate Chinese-language customers who had vital XP files deleted by a Symantec update.
[June 22, 2007, 15:53]
Sars Hits PC Sales, Helps Remote Working
News Overall, sales of consumer desktop PCs in the Chinese capital fell between 75 and 85 percent. SARS fears have reverberated through the Chinese PC market, altering demand, buying behaviour and the competitive landscape," according to a statement...
[May 22, 2003, 11:59]
Unicode Report Reveals Risk Of Software Crashes
News The character set that lets computers write in every language from Czech to Chinese could make Web browsers tongue-tied, two standards groups warned on Friday. Prepublication versions of Unicode 4.0 are available online now.
[June 17, 2003, 10:23]
Facebook Overtakes MySpace Globally
News Additionally, some of MySpace's overseas traffic does not come from the MySpace.com domain; its Chinese-language site, for example, is MySpace.cn. On Thursday, Chinese and Russian versions of the site debuted, bringing the translation offering to...
[June 23, 2008, 13:06]
Icann Election Goes 'a Little Crazy'
News The Chinese spotted what was happening in Japan and started registering. More than 158,000 Internet users have registered to vote in an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) online election that will choose the five people to...
[August 8, 2000, 10:18]
Microsoft Sets Up .Net Deal In China
News Microsoft has partnered with Digital China, the nation's leading software vendor and systems integrator, to develop .Net-based enterprise and e-government packages for the Chinese market. Microsoft's much-publicised .Net initiative is an attempt to...
[July 8, 2004, 9:05]
ICQ Goes Wireless Worldwide
News More specifically, ICQ will offer its SMS and two-way SMS products for Israel's Cellcom; mobile access to ICQ's contact lists for Germany's E-Plus and the Netherlands' KPN Mobile; and SMS and WAP applications for a Chinese-language mobile...
[February 19, 2003, 10:10]
