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Just two weeks after blocking most all Google services, China has blocked Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube (which had already been sharply restricted) following ethnic violence and civil unrest there.  In the province where 140 people have been killed and 800 injured in clashes between Uighurs and authorities, the government cut… Continue Reading »

China’s dispute with Google has reached a new level as millions of users found they were unable to access the English or Chinese versions search engine or Gmail.  The block was put in place after the government accused Google of willfully spreading pornography. “We have found that the English version… Continue Reading »

China has announced that it will demand that all new PCs sold in that country come with web filtering software included.  The government said it is necessary to control pornography on the web and protect its citizens from “unhealthy” information on the Internet.  Manufacturers will have to pre-install the blocking… Continue Reading »

This is big folks.  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. power grid has been hit by cyber spies who planted software within it that could be used to disrupt it.  The espionage was discovered by national security officials and doesn’t seem to be targeted at one specific… Continue Reading »

Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies in conjunction with the SecDev Group and the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory have discovered a huge cyberspy network based in China and say it has infiltrated more than 1,000 computer networks in over 100 countries.  Dubbed GhostNet… Continue Reading »

China has begun blocking all access to YouTube, adding it to a the long list of sites it blocks.  Other sites on that list include the Amazon, Flickr, GoDaddy, Google News, iTunes, and Wikipedia.  While this latest block has been confirmed, Chinese officials have not offered any explanation for it. … Continue Reading »

The massive Chinese search engine Baidu is in trouble after state media uncovered that unlicensed medical services are buying good positions on the page through their P4P (pay-for-performance) scheme.  This is a problem as more people then click through to their website and the pay for very expensive and totally… Continue Reading »

The latest data released by Microsoft has revealed some interesting truths regarding Vista, XP and security.  Nearly every possible aspect of Vista has been attacked, and it’s been labeled as a failure by many who continue to use XP and campaign for continued support.  However, data released in the Microsoft… Continue Reading »

Whenever one country receives a highly anticipated piece of technology first, many other countries get jealous and find ways to illegally obtain that device.  Currently, T-Mobile’s G1 was only released several days ago in America and hasn’t been released elsewhere at this time.  Some Chinese are desperate to try out… Continue Reading »

100 entries.  20 finalists.  3 winners.  1 grand award.  And a confused girl.  You might be having a little chuckle over the confused girl part.  But I really am. Of the 3,162 exhibitors at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair and all their acres of eye-popping electronics, how does a China… Continue Reading »