The End of Mob Rule on the Internet in China? Hardly
Shanghai Daily reports:
THE “Human flesh search engine” - the idea of mobilizing thousands of individuals to dig out facts and expose them publicly - may no longer be a fun game to play as a draft amendment now bans government staff from seeking and publicizing private information.
Several high profile scandals in China had seen the [...]
Kingsoft Sinks AV Pirates
China Tech News reports:
Kingsoft has released its Q2 financial report and interim report, which say that the company’s revenue increased by 42% to CNY346.8 billion in the first half of 2008 with online games and software contributing 66% and 34% of the total revenue, respectively.
…In the first half of 2008, Kingsoft’s software business made revenue [...]
Xiamen: We Don’t Need No Stinking WiFi
China Tech News reports:
China Mobile (CHL) has signed a wireless cooperation memo with the Xiamen Municipal Government to build a wireless city.
Unlike other Chinese cities which adopt Wi-Fi and WiMAX technology is their wireless construction, Xiamen will become the first wireless city in China that based on the TD-SCDMA/HSDPA network. This is also the first [...]
Chinese Virus Wins the Space Race
vnunet reports:
A computer virus has made it onto the International Space Station (ISS), but Nasa says there is no danger to critical systems.
Nasa has confirmed that a computer on the ISS has been infected by the Gammima.AG. virus, which tries to steal login names and passwords to popular online games like Maple Story, HuangYi Online [...]
Go When You Can, Not When You Have To
Pacific Epoch reports:
A hacker infiltrated Tsinghua University’s online news channel on August 24 to post an article under the name of Tsinghua University president Gu Binglin criticizing Chinese universities for “pissing in the minds of students”, reports xinhuanet.com. Tsinghua announced the attack the same day, dispelling any doubts that Gu would use such “foul” language [...]
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