Asia
Taiwan, Japan to develop broadband technologies
July 23, 2010 9:13 am | News | CommentsThree big Japanese corporations may join Taiwan in developing cutting-edge broadband technologies that will allow them to jointly tap China's vast telecommunications market, an official said Friday. Fujitsu Ltd., NEC Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp. have expressed an interest in the offer to develop WiMax technologies together with Taiwanese firms, said Yiin Chi-ming, a Taiwanese state minister.
Japanese spacecraft may have dust from asteroid
July 8, 2010 9:37 am | News | CommentsJapanese scientists say they have detected tiny particles collected by the first spacecraft to return to Earth after landing on an asteroid. But determining if the dust came from the asteroid or was picked up by the spacecraft on its return trip could take months.
Repeat of SKorea, US cyberattacks do no damage
July 8, 2010 9:35 am | News | CommentsHundreds of computers that helped cause a wave of outages on U.S. and South Korean government websites last July launched new attacks on the same sites, but no major interference was reported, police said Thursday.
Japanese not keen to go four-eyed for 3D TV: survey
July 2, 2010 5:28 am | News | CommentsTelevision manufacturers might be waging a 3D battle but Japanese consumers are not entering the affray with almost 70 percent saying they have no plans to buy a 3D TV for their home. Respondents said they were turned off by the special viewing glasses and also blamed steep price tags and scarcity of available content for their lack of interest...
Internet addresses to accept Chinese script
June 25, 2010 8:21 am | News | CommentsChinese speakers will soon be able to tap out Internet addresses in their own language after the agency that runs Internet addresses says it will start accepting Chinese script for domain names. Until recently, the suffix - the ".com" part of an address - had to use English characters, even though Chinese characters have sometimes been allowed for the rest of the Internet address.
Pirates rewrite script for Apple's China iPad launch
April 26, 2010 5:34 am | News | CommentsJust three weeks after the global launch, bootleg versions of Apple Inc's hot-selling iPad tablet PCs have begun showing up on the shelves of online and real-world shops in piracy-prone China. Apple recently delayed the iPad's international launch after huge demand in the United States caught the maker of trendy iPhones and MacBooks off guard.
SKorea targets Internet addicts; 2 million hooked
April 22, 2010 8:52 am | News | CommentsDay and night, Lee Mi-hwa's son stays on his computer, slaying dragons in his online fantasy world while his dinner and homework sit untouched. Lee says the 15-year-old fights her attempts to get him to log off, screaming and physically lashing out at her entreaties.
Microsoft MSN China top exec to leave
March 18, 2010 11:42 am | News | CommentsA top executive for Microsoft Corp's MSN China will leave the joint venture, Microsoft said on Thursday, in a setback as the firm struggles to compete in China's hotly contested social networking space. Xiao Chen, MSN China's Vice-President of sales who has been with the company since its inception, will leave at the end of March to pursue his own start-up, a Microsoft spokeswoman told Reuters.
Microsoft to stay its China course despite Google spat
March 5, 2010 9:50 am | News | CommentsMicrosoft said it will stick to its development strategy for the China Internet search market regardless of the outcome of Google's high-profile spat with Beijing. Microsoft has kept a relatively low profile in China since Google announced its decision to potentially withdraw from the market over censorship issues and following an attack on its systems that it believes originated in China.
Losing Google would hit Chinese science hard
February 24, 2010 9:09 am | News | CommentsMore than three-quarters of scientists in China use the search engine Google as a primary research tool and say their work would be significantly hampered if they were to lose it, a survey showed on Wednesday. Google's future in the country is uncertain following a row with Beijing, but Chinese scientists asked by the Nature journal how much they rely on Google said it was vital for finding academic papers...
Intel says hackers attacked around time Google hit
February 23, 2010 8:51 am | News | CommentsIntel Corp said it faced a "sophisticated" hacker attack in January about the same time as the recently publicized Chinese hacker attacks on Google Inc but said there was no clear link between the two events. "The only connection is timing," Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said, declining to elaborate.
China microbloggers ask: Where has president gone?
February 23, 2010 8:20 am | News | CommentsWhere is President Hu Jintao? That's the question online supporters were asking Tuesday after a user account for the stiff and formal politician disappeared from a Twitter-like microblogging site two days after it was discovered.
Palm suspends production due to Chinese New Year: source
February 12, 2010 4:15 am | News | CommentsPalm Inc is suspending production of its smartphones for the Chinese New Year, as all of them are made in China, but it will resume operations by the end of the month, a source told Reuters on Thursday. The source confirmed parts of a report from industry tracker OTR Global that Palm has suspended production of its namesake smartphone, although not for the entire month of February as the OTR report said.
Google warns Chinese knock-off to stop using logo
February 9, 2010 7:24 am | News | CommentsGoogle Inc has sent a cease and desist letter to the operators of a Chinese search website whose logo bears a close resemblance to its own. Goojje's home page is adorned with a Google-styled logo and the familiar paw print logo of China's top home-grown search engine, Baidu Inc.
NetEase suspends new user registration for hit game
February 8, 2010 9:58 am | News | CommentsChina's third-largest online game operator NetEase.com said it has suspended new user registration for World of Warcraft (WoW) in China and will reapply for a license to operate the expansion pack of Activision Blizzard's hit game. New user registrations would be halted for a week from Monday in the run-up to the Lunar New Year holiday, the company said in a statement posted on its WoW China website, www.warcraftchina.com on Sunday.
Paypal halts certain transactions in India
February 8, 2010 8:23 am | News | CommentsThe online payments service PayPal has taken the unusual step of suspending many transactions in India for more than a week. A spokesman for the service said Saturday that "personal payments" to and from India are being blocked. Transfers to banks in India are being suspended as well.
China Shuts Down Hacker Training Site
February 8, 2010 8:17 am | News | CommentsPolice in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday. The crackdown comes amid growing concern that China is a center for Internet crime and industrial espionage. Search giant Google said last month its e-mail accounts were hacked from China in an assault that also hit at least 20 other companies.
Google, NSA may team up over cyberattacks
February 4, 2010 4:08 am | News | CommentsInternet search firm Google is finalizing a deal that would let the National Security Agency help it investigate a corporate espionage attack that may have originated in China, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
Many wired Chinese unfazed at possible Google exit
February 3, 2010 9:26 am | News | CommentsA world without Google? They can imagine it just fine in China. After all, it's not like losing "World of Warcraft." The online giant's threat to pull out of China over censorship has drawn little reaction among the country's 384 million Internet users.
Senator seeks information on tech firms in China
February 3, 2010 9:15 am | News | CommentsA top Senate Democrat is asking 30 leading technology, Internet and communications companies to provide detailed descriptions of their operations and human rights practices in China. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois sent letters on Tuesday to technology companies including Apple Inc., Facebook and Twitter...
Imitation Google, YouTube sites emerge in China
January 28, 2010 6:05 am | Articles | CommentsImitation Web sites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations. YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is blocked in China.
Google says launch of its mobile phone in China postponed amid dispute over censorship
January 19, 2010 8:52 am | News | CommentsGoogle on Tuesday postponed the launch of its mobile phone in China, adding to the potential commercial fallout of its dispute with Beijing over Internet censorship and e-mail hacking. One person briefed on Google's decision said it was linked to the company's threat that it will shut its Chinese-based search engine if restrictions aren't eased.
Microsoft's Browser Flaw Exposed Google to Hackers
January 19, 2010 8:19 am | News | CommentsMicrosoft says a security flaw in its Internet Explorer browser played a role in the recent computer attacks against Google and at least 20 other companies.
Google may sever ties with China
January 13, 2010 9:41 am | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | Articles | CommentsGoogle has shocked the world by ending its Chinese censorship operation. Due to numerous factors (including cyber attacks emanating from China), Google declared that it’d no longer censor search results on Google.cn. Since launching Google.cn in 2006, Google has reluctantly accommodated China’s despotic online censorship.
China purportedly discovers tomb of famed general Cao Cao
December 29, 2009 9:12 am | News | CommentsChinese archeologists have unearthed a large third-century tomb, which they say could be that of Cao Cao, the legendary politician and general famous throughout East Asia for his Machiavellian tactics. The tomb, discovered in Xigaoxue village near the ancient Chinese city of Anyang, Henan Province, has an epitaph and inscription that appear to refer to Cao Cao, Central China Television said on Sunday.
