News Flash: Competition Drives Down Computer Prices and Increases Sales Volume
People’s Daily reports:
Sales of personal computers (PC) in China grew steadily in 2007, driven by a price war, said a report released in Beijing on Tuesday.
Last year, 27.94 million desktop PCs, laptops and servers were sold nationwide, up 19.5 percent over the previous year, said China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID) Consulting, a market [...]
Drive-Bys in China
From a draft paper, All Your iFrames Point to Us, at Google Research (hat tip to Bruce Schneier):
…Our results reveal an alarming contribution of Chinese-based web sites to the web malware problem– overall, 67% of the malware distribution servers and 64% of the web sites that link to them are located in China. These results [...]
Regulating Internet-Based Health Care Information in China
The OpenNet Initiative reports:
On November 20, 2007, the Beijing Communications Administration (BCA) ordered the closure of a popular Internet forum on the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). The Hepatitis B Camp Network of China [è‚èƒ†ç›¸ç…§è®ºå› ] (http://hbvhbv.com/) was started in September 2001 and has over 300,000 registered users. Lu Jun, the site administrator, filed a lawsuit [...]
Protecting Edison Chen’s Privates
Shanghai Daily reports:
China should start drafting its first law on privacy protection as soon as possible, a law expert said, saying a strong privacy law could have prevented the circulation of pornographic photos of leading Hong Kong celebrities having sex.
“There is no privacy protection law in China, nor is there a single item in any [...]
China Real Estate: Sina Front-Ends E-House
Shanghai Daily reports:
Chinese portal Sina.com will form a new venture with online real estate agency E-House (China) Holdings Ltd to build the country’s largest online real estate portal, the companies said yesterday.
Sina will spin off its real estate and home decoration channels and contribute related advertising into the new firm, in which it will hold [...]
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