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Monday, November 23, 2009

China to Claim Half of Online Game Market, Report Says

Juliet Ye

Videogames are serious business in China. The country’s online game market will reach 41 billion yuan ($6 billion) by 2010, accounting for half the global market, according to newly released data from Cnzz.com, a Beijing-based data analysis firm.

The Cnzz.com report says that almost two-thirds of China’s 338 million Web users are now online gamers. The online-game industry, which currently accounts for more than half of the total Internet economy, will see strong annual growth at a rate of 20 percent in future years, the report says.

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

China’s Cyberwars

James T. Areddy

China’s military is under attack. At least its Web site is…from hackers.

In a sign that China’s Ministry of National Defense faces the same kind of Internet security challenges that militaries around the world have reported, its new Web site was attacked more than 2.3 million times within a month of its August launch. The state-run People’s Daily newspaper reported that revelation Wednesday in an interview with the editor-in-chief of the Chinese defense department’s site, Ji Guilin.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Into the Heart of Darkness–Shopping the Beijing iPhone Black Market

Dan Butterfield

The black/grey markets in Beijing will blow your mind! On Saturday and Sunday (November 14/15) I had a chance to do a bit of undercover work.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

China Needn’t Surpass U.S., Intel CTO Says

Don Clark

China’s factories have long churned out high tech products. A big question facing Silicon Valley–underscored in a survey released Monday by Intel and Newsweek–is how big a role the country will play in dreaming up those gadgets.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

From Taiwan, Via Eyes China’s Tech Sector

Matthew Rivera

President Barack Obama has been spending considerable time on East-West trade agreements while in Asia, but for one chip maker, the negotiations between China and Taiwan are even more important.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

A Blogger Briefing Ahead of Obama’s China Trip

Sky Canaves

China’s bloggers are a focus of organizers of the President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit, echoing similar efforts by the administration to use social-media tools to communicate with Americans.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Behind the Scenes of China’s iPhone Apps

Juliet Ye

Statistics tell us that there are already more than two million iPhones in China, and the number is expected to rise (at least a little) following the recent official launch of Apple’s iPhone 3G in the country through local telecom carrier China Unicom.

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Disney Plans Get a Cold Reception Online

James T. Areddy and Ellen Zhu

Walt Disney won’t make Shanghai the happiest place in the world.

That’s the early reaction from a surprising number of netizens, or Chinese Internet users, to confirmation early Wednesday that plans for Shanghai Disneyland have the green light to proceed. Of the posts streaming into tianya.cn, a major portal, early Wednesday, the negative views were solidly outweighing positive views.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Intel CFO Sees Signs of Business Spending

Jerry A. Dicolo

Intel Corp. Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith said evidence is beginning to emerge that corporations are returning to technology spending, although such spending is driven more by the savings offered than by any spending increases.

“Our sales guys are picking up more interest at corporations,” Mr. Smith said in an interview Thursday.

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High Price Tests China’s Appetite for iPhone

Loretta Chao

Apple Inc. is a master at creating buzz around its product launches. But as the popular iPhone approaches its official debut in China–the world’s largest mobile-phone market–consumers here seem anything but excited.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Nokia Unveils China 3G Phone

Loretta Chao

Nokia Corp. unveiled its first cell phone developed with China’s homegrown third-generation mobile technology Tuesday, saying it would aim to “democratize” the smart phone market by aiming to sell lower-priced handsets at higher volumes.

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People’s Daily Site Accuses Google of “Malicious Revenge”

Sky Canaves

Google has seen its fair share of troubles in China, from having its flagship search engine blocked to being scolded for peddling pornography. Last week, the Chinese Written Works Copyright Society accused the company of infringing the rights of Chinese authors through its Google Books project.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

China’s Facebook Few–14,000 and Falling

Loretta Chao

The number of Facebook users in China is dwindling. Or to be more exact: falling off a cliff. And not by choice, as anyone who has tried to access Facebook in China recently knows.

It’s no secret among people in the Internet business in China that Facebook was interested in the world’s largest Internet user population.

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Microsoft Emphasizes the Real Deal

Aaron Back

Microsoft’s big launch of the new Windows 7 operating system on Friday in Beijing was much like its launches around the world: a huge, boisterous demonstration of new features such as being able to share music across multiple computers in one home.

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Google Books in China; Chapter Two

Loretta Chao

In response to the recent uproar over Google’s digital library in China, Google initially gave a boilerplate response about its U.S. book settlement applying only to U.S. books, and that the company will “of course” listen carefully to concerns and work hard to address them.

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