China says no limits on use of Google's Android
BEIJING – China said Wednesday its mobile phone carriers can use Google's Android operating system so long as it complies with regulations, apparently trying to limit damage to Chinese industry from their dispute over Internet censorship.
Google Inc.'s Jan. 12 announcement that it would no longer censor search results in China prompted concern about possible [...]
Top Ten Most-Blocked Websites
OpenDNS offers quicker and more reliable Web browsing, but when you sign up for a free OpenDNS account, you can also get other features such as content/domain blocking and access to your DNS usage statistics. With then OpenDNS Domain Tagging tools, OpenDNS issued the following lists of the most-often blocked domains by parents, schools, and [...]
Death Toll in Xinjiang Riot RISES to 156
Buses were seen torched on a street of Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in this picture taken on the early morning of Monday, July 6, 2009. The violence in Urumqi has led to the death of "a number of civilians and one armed police officer" on Sunday.
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In China, New Limits on Virtual Currency
SHANGHAI — The buying and selling of the make-believe currencies used in online gaming has become so widespread that Chinese authorities fear it will affect the real economy.
To quell that threat, those authorities said on Tuesday that they had issued new regulations aimed at restricting the trade and use of virtual money.
China is [...]
Microsoft's Bing search wins share from Google
Microsoft Corp's new Bing search engine gained U.S. market share in its first month in operation but still trails dominant rival Google Inc, according to data released on Wednesday.
Bing, launched on June 3 but available to some users a few days earlier, took 8.23 percent of U.S. Web searches in June, up from [...]
China's Internet backdown lauded by firms, activists
China's ambitions to strengthen control of the Internet with filtering software became a show of the limits of its power on Wednesday, as activists and industry groups welcomed an abrupt delay of the contentious plan.
The surprise climbdown was reported late on Tuesday by Xinhua news agency, which said the Ministry of Industry and Information [...]
California misses budget deadline, readies "IOUs"
California's lawmakers failed to agree on a balanced budget by the start of its new fiscal year on Wednesday morning, clearing the way to suspend payments owed to the state's vendors and local agencies, who instead will get "IOU" notes promising payment.
The notes will mark the first time in 17 years the most [...]
Iraqis Celebrate as U.S. Troops Leave Cities
A well-known to Iraqis local singer rhapsodized the U.S. troops' exit from his beloved Baghdad city as he sang a song that made thousands of cheered Iraqis cried with tears during a massive celebration in Baghdad on Monday.
Salah Hassan, an Iraqi singer in his thirties, vocalized his happiness to return to Baghdad he [...]
Why do the netizens feel unease at the youngest “29-year-old mayor” of China?
A succession of titles “80s generation, 29 years old, Qinghua University, post graduate, the youngest mayor”, enabled the appointment announcement top the homepage of the key websites. However, the 29 year-old Zhou Senfeng didn’t win applause from the netizens. In contrary, the following posters expressed their doubt and ridicule. Quoting the remarked from the “Focus”, [...]
Magnitude 5.6 - EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA
Magnitude: 5.6 (USGS say 5.1)
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 18:03:54 UTC Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 02:03:54 AM at epicenter
Region: EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA
Location: 31.422°N, 104.060°E
Depth: 35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program
Distances: 65 km (40 miles) W of Mianyang, Sichuan, China 85 [...]
