This is just in. China has blocked access to all Blogger blogs ahead of the Olympic games that begin in Beijing three months from now.
We conducted connectivity tests using three different nodes in China and none of them could connect to blogspot... (posted on 4 May 2008 by Digital Inspiration)
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29 Apr 2008
Apple-hosted .Mac websites blocked in China
China may be blocking .Mac sites from being accessed by internet users in the country, though iDisks, iWeb site updates and other functions are working fine.
Access to .Mac sites has reported to be unavailable to internet users in Beijing, Shenzen,... (posted on 29 Apr 2008 by 9 to 5 Mac)
29 Apr 2008
China will soon dominate local mobile search
Rating: Juniper report predicts 1.3 billion global users
Almost one third (30 per cent) of all mobile subscribers globally will be hooked up to local search by 2013, according to Juniper Research.
That equates to something like 1.3 billion users.... (posted on 29 Apr 2008 by GoMo News)
23 Apr 2008
Apple arrives in China, dressed up like Best Buy
Section: Apple News, Retail & Apple Store, RumorsApple has been wanting to open a store in China for quite some time now, and their dream is halfway there. A Best Buy in Shanghai will soon have a mini Apple Store inside of it, being only 540 square feet.... (posted on 23 Apr 2008 by Appletell)
15 Apr 2008
Sorry China, no iPhone for you yet
Section: Apple, Apple News, iPhone + Communications, Carriers, iPhoneA while back I posted about how the a group of surveyed Chinese felt about the iPhone and its price. This post also went over a little bit of the reasons why the iPhone hasn’t legally... (posted on 15 Apr 2008 by Appletell)
Section: News, PCs, Game-Companies, Distributors, Publishers, Genres, MMO, Online The Chinese operator of World of Warcraft, The9, has announced that the game recently reached a peak concurrency of 1 million players in China, meaning there were a million... (posted on 13 Apr 2008 by Gamertell)
Pepsi is tapping into China’s Generation Wow in innovative new ways by partnering with phone snap and click marketer, MyClick. Pepsi-Cola has launched its third Pepsi Creative Challenge as part of a 360-degree marketing campaign that will be... (posted on 11 Apr 2008 by GoMo News)
Section: iPhone + Communications, Carriers, iPhonePearl Research has released data from a recent survey in China showing that a staggering 68% of respondents have heard about the iPhone. China, containing over 565 million mobile phone users, has not... (posted on 9 Apr 2008 by Appletell)
22 Mar 2008
SQT: Great Firewall of China
Despite assertions in the Western media, people in China can still get all the news about Tibet and other sensitive issues they like. However, don’t waste time searching on Youtube for video clips or in Google News. A search for Tibet in Google will lock... (posted on 22 Mar 2008 by Significant Figures)
For those not aware, China has a nationwide firewall in place called the Golden Shield Project that’s also known as the "Great Firewall of China" (in reference to the Great Wall of China). China can and does block things on a nationwide basis... (posted on 17 Mar 2008 by PCMech)
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