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IBM is taking the American attitude of ‘Go big or go home’ over to China where it plans to open Asia’s largest cloud computing data center, the company announced on Tuesday.
“The data center offers the world-class infrastructure capabilities and advanc…
China believes it’s been making progress in censoring lewd content from the Web. Since launching an aggressive crackdown in December 2009, China has shut down over 60,000 porn websites, according to the country’s state-run Xinhua News agency.
“Our camp…
Residents of mainland China got a rude awakening today. According to The Telegraph, popular voice over IP (VoIP) app Skype has been declared illegal in the country. The only Internet voice calls that will be legal to place are those made over the two g…
The BBC in reporting today that a Chinese human rights advocate is being jailed for sending a tweet. The incident occurred last month when Cheng Jianping’s fiancé (who is also a human rights advocate) sent a tweet insinuating that those protesting Jap…
According to National Defense Magazine, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of all Internet traffic for a full 18 minutes in April. That might not sound like much, but consider that the hijacked traffic included data…
Yahoo News is reporting today that as many as 1 million Chinese mobile phone users are infected with a new SMS trojan. The target operating system has not been mentioned in any of the reports (we’d guess Android or Symbian), but the effects of the viru…
It’s long been known that the Chinese authorities don’t take kindly to people using sites like Twitter and Facebook in the country. The possibility that people might anonymously congregate on these popular sites frightens them to such a degree that the…
The Chinese government is getting ready to launch a new national campaign aimed at cracking down on violations of intellectual property rights and the production and distribution of pirated and counterfeit software and movies, the Xinhua News Agency re…