Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ...
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Blogs Opera, the maker of Web browsers such as the popular "Opera Mini" for Java-based mobile phones, has been accused of betraying its users in China, by apparently caving in to top-level ...
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Blogs Shortly after I arrived in Changsha end of last week, a high frequency sound hit my right ear so hard that my ear auto tuned out (i.e. went deaf) for more ...
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Blogs A lot of Chinese Netizens, missing the Web sites that have been blocked during 2009--and remain blocked right now--such as YouTube, Facebook and Blogspot blogs, have been scrambling to find free ...
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Blogs One of the interesting things to come out of his just concluded townhall meeting in Shanghai was US President Barack Obama's admission: "I have never used Twitter". Obama casually divulged this ...
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Blogs For anyone out there who wants to experience what it's like to surf the Net from inside China, you can do so by installing the China Channel Firefox addon. When turned ...
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Blogs The Great Firewall is a phenomenon that many Internet users in China have been repeatedly beating their heads on for quite some time now. That was especially true for many of ...
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Blogs In an effort to help journalists in Beijing surf the Web anonymously and unhindered by China's censorship, the Chaos Computer Club out of Germany has been distributing these little USB sticks ...
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Blogs On the opening morning of the "Summer Davos" World Economic Forum, some of the biggest names and brightest minds on the planet have arrived here in Dalian to exchange their ideas. ...
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Blogs China Web portal giant, Sina, has launched an invite-only beta of a very Twitter-like microblogging service. It is the first time a major Chinese Web company has tackled microblogging. Previously, smaller ...
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Blogs Contemporary China can be difficult to understand or get a big picture on. News reportage by most TV media and newspapers doesn't quite get it right, in terms of hearing ordinary ...
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Blogs Google Inc's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, has resigned with--two days after his departure--no clear reason. The 49-year-old Taiwan-born, US-educated executive had been with Google ever since its official launch in China ...
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Blogs Well, it's June 9--five days after that anniversary of events that "never happened"--and Internet access is limping back to normal here in the PRC. Twitter is unblocked and Flickr is... erm... ...
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Blogs As a followup to my post about the World Economic Forum here in Dalian China, and to my recent mini-rant where I might have called some people vegetables (sorry, guys, but ...
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Blogs Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, Break.com, Craigslist.org, etc., do have some sort of questionable content that you can stumble upon if you are not careful. Long-time buddy of mine in the ...
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