NDRC & IPv6: Hey Sixy, Where You Goin’?
China Tech News reports:
The National Development and Reform Commission of China has released a special notice on the commercial trial and the equipment industrialization of IPv6 on its official website.
…The notice says that to actively promote the application and the industry development of China’s next-generation Internet business, a commercial trial of the next-generation Internet business [...]
Olympics: Where There’s a McWill, There’s No Way
Telecom Asia reports:
A much-heralded Wimax deployment at China’s Olympics looks likely to be “over promised and under delivered”, according to IMS Research.
China’s dominant mobile phone operator, China Mobile, has been designated to provide a Wimax network for the Games, according to IMS. The network was intended to cover the Olympic village and surrounding areas.
However, the [...]
Pimping TD-SCDMA at the Olympics
The South China Morning Post reports:
China Mobile Communications Corp has started its major push to promote home-grown third-generation mobile services to foreign visitors with new retail outlets to showcase the technology during the Beijing Olympics.
The official mobile operator of the Beijing Olympics has 21 outlets in the capital as well as counters at the airport [...]
Handy Advice for the Inevitable Olympic Email Scam
Mark Hofman, the handler on duty over at the Internet Storm Center (ISC), has some good advice to protect users from the expected tsunami of Olympic-related phishing attacks:
Don’t click any links when:
* the email was sent by someone you do not know.
* the email was sent by [...]
When Codes of Conduct Collide
Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports:
U.S. technology giants Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, in talks with other Internet companies and human-rights groups, have reached an agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for activities in China and other restrictive countries, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
In separate letters sent to Democratic Senator Richard [...]