2012 Olympic Mascots
They have frightened some and enchanted others. They are Wenlock and Mandeville, mascots of the London Olympic Games. The one-eyed figures join the large family of mascots that includes the Five Fuwa of Beijing (2008), the bear Misha of Moscow (1980) and many others. Wenlock is the name of the English village considered by many [...]
Another Foxconn employee falls to death at Shenzhen factory
SHENZHEN, May 25 (Xinhua) -- An employee of Foxconn Technology Group died after falling from a building at the company's plant in Shenzhen early Tuesday morning, the latest in a string of such deaths at the company's Shenzhen plant. It was the ninth such death and the 11th such fall at the plant this year. [...]
Google, Apple rivalry heats up
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google is the undisputed king when it comes to raking in advertising dollars on the Internet, but Apple wants the crown when it comes to ads on mobile devices. The mobile advertising space is shaping up as the latest battleground in an increasingly testy rivalry that led Google chief executive Eric Schmidt [...]
Broadband funds stimulate laments from companies
WASHINGTON – When Congress included $7.2 billion for broadband in last year's stimulus bill, its goal was to bring high-speed Internet connections and information-age jobs to parts of the country desperate for both things. Now as the government awards the money, some phone and cable companies complain that not all of it is being used [...]
Google Blocked For At Least Some in China
Google results were blocked for (at least) some in China for the past few hours... this includes the search results of all types of Google country domains (e.g. google.de just as much as google.com or google.com.hk) but not the homepage of the service itself, and not an app like Gmail or Google China Music. Casual [...]
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. Look at the article. [...]
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 7.81 [...]
