Cloud Computing Center Planned In Taiwan
Chunghwa Telecom, Trend Micro, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, and Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry [...]
AsiaInfo Posts Increased Revenues For 2009
Chinese software services firm AsiaInfo Holdings Inc. announced its financial results for the fourth quarter [...]
Longtop Buys Chinese Banking Software Company
Chinese financial services software provider Longtop Financial Technologies Limited announced it has completed the acquisition [...]
Google is another country | Alan Rusbridger
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Eric Schmidt, facing a grilling in Davos, showed that leading Google is much like running a successful if secretive nationGoogle is not a country. Eric Schmidt – who would be prime minister if it was – kept repeating the point [...]
Google and YouTube copies launch in China
Imitation search engine and video site emerge amid standoff between China and real Google over censorshipImitation websites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations.YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is owned by Google and blocked in China. The [...]
We Googlistas want a global debate on information freedom. Why are others so coy? | Timothy Garton Ash
Davos: A new digital cold war is afoot. At stake is something much larger than just a rivalry between the western and eastern superpowersFour cheers for Google. Risking the loss of potentially huge long-term profits in the Chinese internet market, it has struck a blow for one of the great causes of our time: global [...]
New Chinese Mobile Content Rules Will Adversely Affect KongZhong’s Revenue
Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation has issued an update on schemes within the [...]
Oil companies targeted by hacking attack
Just two weeks after Google said it was the victim of an organised hacking attack, details of a similar sting that targeted three of the world’s biggest oil companies have emerged.Documents obtained by US newspaper the Christian Science Monitor show that the computer systems of three major energy companies – ExxonMobil, Marathon and ConocoPhillips – [...]
China’s Kingsoft Sets Up New Department For Game Clients
Chinese software and game developer Kingsoft has established a new business department and the company [...]
Bill Gates has let China down | Zhang Hong
In contrast to Google’s stand against online censorship, Gates’s ‘business as usual’ comments betray China’s internet usersI am not surprised by Bill Gates and his close partner Steve Ballmer downplaying Google’s decision to retreat from China. I assume this is a business comment intended to placate the Chinese government and help Microsoft’s Bing search engine [...]