Comments for Catching Mice in China http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog Commentary on technology news in and around China Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:57:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Catching Porn in China by jim http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/09/29/catching-porn-in-china/#comment-1560 jim Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:26:25 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=447#comment-1560 Hmmm, so the cops were just poking around. That's a relief. Thanks for the update. Do you write for chinaSMACK? Fantastic site. Hmmm, so the cops were just poking around. That’s a relief.

Thanks for the update. Do you write for chinaSMACK? Fantastic site.

]]> Comment on Catching Porn in China by Ian Stalter http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/09/29/catching-porn-in-china/#comment-1559 Ian Stalter Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:53:53 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=447#comment-1559 I switched this to English and read a few others from Sina-> from what I saw they were attempting to first check on a workmates computer; Ren Chao Ji turned his in and they searched it and found it without too much extra effort. There was another article on Sina about a Wang Ba owner who got three years jail, and had his computers confiscated after they found porn spread around. I think the biggest objection Chinese had with the deal is that many people have porn on there computers, and the police at random decide to make examples out of people. If you've tried to search for porn related materials on Chinese websites (I've never done it), what generally happens is that they are either simply blocked or inaccessible without some extra effort. I switched this to English and read a few others from Sina-> from what I saw they were attempting to first check on a workmates computer; Ren Chao Ji turned his in and they searched it and found it without too much extra effort. There was another article on Sina about a Wang Ba owner who got three years jail, and had his computers confiscated after they found porn spread around. I think the biggest objection Chinese had with the deal is that many people have porn on there computers, and the police at random decide to make examples out of people.

If you’ve tried to search for porn related materials on Chinese websites (I’ve never done it), what generally happens is that they are either simply blocked or inaccessible without some extra effort.

]]> Comment on Neuter Me This: iPhone China Rumor by Turtlewind http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/09/25/neuter-me-this-iphone-china-rumor/#comment-1558 Turtlewind Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:03:20 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=445#comment-1558 A TD iPhone would definitely be very different to the WCDMA one, but I don't think that anyone expects that to happen any time soon, at least in the short term - the technology is still so far behind in terms of stability, power consumption etc, and the handsets on the market all have serious problems. I don't think Apple would want to associate its brand with that sort of thing; this is the company that didn't even put WCDMA in the first generation iPhone because it used too much power. A TD iPhone would definitely be very different to the WCDMA one, but I don’t think that anyone expects that to happen any time soon, at least in the short term - the technology is still so far behind in terms of stability, power consumption etc, and the handsets on the market all have serious problems. I don’t think Apple would want to associate its brand with that sort of thing; this is the company that didn’t even put WCDMA in the first generation iPhone because it used too much power.

]]> Comment on Neuter Me This: iPhone China Rumor by jim http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/09/25/neuter-me-this-iphone-china-rumor/#comment-1552 jim Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:28:44 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=445#comment-1552 Great point. The only difference I can think of with Nokia et al and Apple is the economy of scale for production. Because those companies make so many different kinds of phones the decision to re-engineer a particular model isn't that big of a deal. Do you think that putting TD-SCDMA chips in an iPhone is sufficiently different than the existing WCDMA model that they'd have to re-jigger the whole thing? If that's the case I would guess it's not that big of a deal to drop the WiFi hardware. Great point. The only difference I can think of with Nokia et al and Apple is the economy of scale for production. Because those companies make so many different kinds of phones the decision to re-engineer a particular model isn’t that big of a deal.

Do you think that putting TD-SCDMA chips in an iPhone is sufficiently different than the existing WCDMA model that they’d have to re-jigger the whole thing? If that’s the case I would guess it’s not that big of a deal to drop the WiFi hardware.

]]> Comment on Neuter Me This: iPhone China Rumor by Turtlewind http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/09/25/neuter-me-this-iphone-china-rumor/#comment-1551 Turtlewind Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:36:29 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=445#comment-1551 I wonder if they're really likely to just disable the WiFi without making any changes to the hardware. If it was possible to get that past the regulators (and assuming it makes financial sense), Nokia, HTC and the rest would already be doing it instead of providing separate models to the Chinese market. I wonder if they’re really likely to just disable the WiFi without making any changes to the hardware. If it was possible to get that past the regulators (and assuming it makes financial sense), Nokia, HTC and the rest would already be doing it instead of providing separate models to the Chinese market.

]]> Comment on IPv6: Start the Doomsday Clock at 830 Days by The Dark Visitor » Chinese internet ends in 830 day!!! http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/09/23/ipv6-start-the-doomsday-clock-at-830-days/#comment-1544 The Dark Visitor » Chinese internet ends in 830 day!!! Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:29:45 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=434#comment-1544 [...] Checked today, it is very fading fast…so you better go to Catching Mice and find out why the Chinese internet is disappearing… [...] [...] Checked today, it is very fading fast…so you better go to Catching Mice and find out why the Chinese internet is disappearing… [...]

]]> Comment on Can the iPhone 3G Save TD-SCDMA? by Can the iPhone 3G Save TD-SCDMA? « iPhonAsia ??????? http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/09/03/can-the-iphone-3g-save-td-scdma/#comment-1512 Can the iPhone 3G Save TD-SCDMA? « iPhonAsia ??????? Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:08:53 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=415#comment-1512 [...] Can the iPhone 3G Save TD-SCDMA? [...] [...] Can the iPhone 3G Save TD-SCDMA? [...]

]]> Comment on Chinese Virus Wins the Space Race by China Journal : Best of the China Blogs: August 29 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/08/28/chinese-virus-wins-the-space-race/#comment-1438 China Journal : Best of the China Blogs: August 29 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:46:07 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=405#comment-1438 [...] going where no computer virus has gone before: A Chinese virus made it on to the International Space Station. [Catching Mice in [...] [...] going where no computer virus has gone before: A Chinese virus made it on to the International Space Station. [Catching Mice in [...]

]]> Comment on TD-SCDMA: Ix-nay on the Rap-cay Andsets-hay by David http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/08/18/td-scdma-ix-nay-on-the-rap-cay-andsets-hay/#comment-1377 David Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:16 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=378#comment-1377 Can't power off? Sounds like a handset problem. I'm no great defender of TD-SDCMA (Tang Dynasty System Can't Do Much of Anything), but the Panda problem underscores that China has a few companies in the mobile handset business who should be making other things. Can’t power off? Sounds like a handset problem. I’m no great defender of TD-SDCMA (Tang Dynasty System Can’t Do Much of Anything), but the Panda problem underscores that China has a few companies in the mobile handset business who should be making other things.

]]> Comment on IPv6 and the Olympics: Showing Some Backbone by jim http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/2008/07/28/ipv6-and-the-olympics-showing-some-backbone/#comment-1351 jim Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:27:58 +0000 http://www.vaubanconsulting.com/blog/?p=337#comment-1351 That's a great rundown (not sure what you mean by "real", but whatever). Any idea when we'll actually see it being used at the client level on commercial networks? In China or elsewhere? That’s a great rundown (not sure what you mean by “real”, but whatever).

Any idea when we’ll actually see it being used at the client level on commercial networks? In China or elsewhere?

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