Cisco sued: accused of helping China’s Great Firewall
Much is made of the repressive “Great Firewall of China” that blocks any online information the Chinese government does not want made known to its population. As much is made of China’s economy and how...
View ArticleIran’s plan for a second web
Pop quiz: As an internet user, what is the world’s worst country to live in? China with its Great Firewall comes to mind. Or perhaps Cuba, a country that until the end of Fidel Castro’s reign in 2008...
View ArticleGoogle and the Chinese Phisherman
It’s like something out of a spy movie: On the 1st of June, Google announced that it had uncovered a “campaign to collect user passwords” that was aimed at the personal Gmail accounts of “senior US...
View ArticleCan Chinese microblogging sensation Weibo trump Twitter?
Chinese online media company Sina Corporation is set to launch an English version of its microblogging site Weibo (pronounced Wei-bohr), and it’s worth seeing how the site stacks up against Twitter,...
View ArticleFamed Chinese artist and dissident sends first tweets since arrest
Following what many had taken to be a regime-imposed silence, famed Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has returned to Twitter. Ai tweeted for the first time this weekend since his April arrest and...
View ArticleUS issues demands to China on ‘Great Firewall’
Ratcheting up its increasingly stern line with Beijing on trade issues, Washington has added concerns about China’s infamous Great Firewall saying that it may be hurting US companies’ access to Chinese...
View ArticleChina’s weibos pass 300-million user mark
Months after revealing that its online adult population had gone past the 500-million mark, Chinese state authorities announced that more than 300-million people in the country have microblogging...
View ArticleIs China really set for an online advertising boom?
China’s has the largest online population on the planet, over 500-million people by most estimates. Add in 300-million people with accounts on its various microblogging sites (called weibos) and you...
View ArticleWhat would China be like if the Great Firewall came crashing down?
Everyone knows that China’s internet is censored. There’s the government-run firewall that blocks and interferes with unwanted sites, and then there’s the extensive network of self-censors at all of...
View ArticleChinese government wants 5 more Lenovos by 2015
There’s no doubting that Lenovo is one of the Chinese tech scene’s greatest success stories. The electronics manufacturer is growing fast is set to overtake HP and become the world’s top PC...
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