Tag: CHINESE

It's act three of Google vs. China. We've seen the two duke it out over accusations of cyberwarfare and search engine censorship, and now Google is throwing down the gauntlet over interference with Gmail. According to The Guardian, the number of complaints from Gmail users and advertisers in China has steadily risen of late. Google believes that the problems are the result of "a government ...

With a population of more than 1.3 billion people, getting your app launched inside China's borders could be a very good thing for business. That's what Groupon thinks, too, and its new China spin-off Gaopeng.com aims to bring local deals to connected Chinese users. Estimates peg the number of Internet users in China at around half a billion. Groupon will be fighting for market share with ...

It's no surprise that the last few days has seen a huge amount of information bubble to the surface regarding China's recent cyber attacks on the infrastructure of more than 30 Silicon Valley companies. Much of it is coming from the security and anti-virus companies -- now that the attack has been identified and halted, the world in general and the victims in particular want to know how it ...

More proof is starting to come out implicating the Chinese government for the recent attack on Google. In addition to Google formally implicating the Chinese for the cyberattack that attempted to gain personal information on Chinese human rights activists, researchers have been able to identify the servers they used and where they originated from. The report provided by VeriSign's iDefense ...

The internet, as you know, is a great place to turn to for all kinds of information and entertainment. Some of us live on it for 8 or more hours a day, others spend way too much time on it and never leave their virtual space. Congratulations, you are officially addicted, please join the internet addict's camp. The Chinese government has realized the addiction and has a solution, Internet Addicts ...

Oh the heady days when everything cool on the internet came from one of the 50 states. Those days are gone, but the U.S. has managed to maintain dominance among the ruling class of the Internet nevertheless, however, those days may be fading as well. Within a few years, China's population of Internet users will outnumber those in the U.S., changing the dominant language and, according to the ...

Google has a little problem in China lately. It seems as though some software developed by a rival company ended up in a recently released Chinese software tool that Google 'developed'. Google apologized once they were called out for after they found out about Sohu's software being inside of their Pinyin Input Method Editor. For their part, Google said that Sohu's software it was used during ...

Sure, Vista sales might not be the greatest so far, and Microsoft has already made the bizarre announcement of "Vienna" to follow in 2009, but things aren't all bad for Microsoft's bouncing baby OS. While SFGate reports on Microsoft's efforts to squash rampant piracy in China, ButterBoom has some choice quotes from a South China Morning Post report that says Vista says are doing pretty darn well ...