Category: internet
Cyberworm Attack
Chinese business were warned on Sunday of a highly sophisticated cyber weapon know as Stuxnet. The cyber worm has been designed to infiltrate Siemens supervisory control and data (SCADA) systems which are commonly used to monitor and control industrial facilities ranging from traffic lights to nuclear power plants. Personal computers are apparently safe. Stuxnet gets [...]
Microsoft China Opening Cloud Innovation Center
Finally some Microsoft news! Microsoft China currently have 400 programmers and scientist tapping away at computer terminals in Minhang District, Shanghai, in preparation for the end of the year. Why what happens at the end of the year? Mircosoft will open it’s first Cloud Innovation Center! The Microsoft Center is one of many Cloud based [...]
Google Still Doesn’t Have Mapping License
The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) are currently handing out surveying licenses to online services who want to provide a maps of China on line. Around 70-80 companies have submitted applications some of which have already been granted to Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Sohu and Sina. The only foreign company to apply and recieve [...]
Taobao Under attack from Internet ‘Terrorist’
Many people describe Taobao as China’s Ebay, which it is and it isn’t. Where as Ebay is usually used as a second source of income or a way to get rid of some old tat in the West, Taobao is actually many a sellers only source of income here in China. Anything you could possibly [...]
Archos ‘iPad Killer’
Archos have just shown off 5 new Android tablets and the Chinese press are reporting that the newly revealed Archos 101 (101 refers to the 10.1 inch multi-touch screen) could be an iPad ‘killer’! It’s a fairly bold claim, but can the new kid on the block really hold it’s own against the established daddy [...]
163.com Debuts HTML5 iPad Email
Despite the fact the iPad has yet to officially launch in China (and sources tell us there is a delay) NetEase e-mail CEO Ding Lei has already had his team of developers launch a special iPad version of their popular 163 email service. The new service located at ipad.mail.163.com, can be accessed through the iPad’s [...]
China Releases A Book You Can Read Without The Book
Ever been out and about and wished you’d taken your newly purchased paper back book with you? Perhaps you planned to pop in to town for a few minutes to do some shopping but find yourself stuck in a 9 day traffic jam! If only you had that copy of ‘War and Peace’ with you [...]
No QPhone From Tencent… Yet
Rumors circulating the web about Tencent, the developers of the feverishly popular QQ I.M service, supposed jump in to the mobile phone market have been quashed by the Shenzhen based company: “Tencent will not set foot in the terminal market by launching QPhone, instead, it expects to have its various mobile Internet services embedded into [...]
Alibaba and Sohu Team Up and Take It To Google
Google has lost momentum in China this last year, and local search engines are soaking up all that lost traffic. Baidu are still top dog for Chinese search, but a new partnership between Sohu and Alibaba announced this week is likely to stir things up. Sohu launched it’s Sogou.com search engine in 2004, is the [...]
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