Chinese Blog: Personalized internet web logs gain popularity in China
Beijing, 23 January: Chinese "netizens" are following overseas internet trends with thousands of personalized Web logs, better known as blogs, and the government has done little to supervise their swipes at China and other questionable content.China residents maintain blogs that detail one-night stands and criticize China's handling of SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome].Expatriates trade China news stories on livinginchina.com, and about...
Chinese Blog: WEB FIRMS SAY THEY CAN'T FIGHT CENSORSHIP,
CHINA TOO LUCRATIVE TOO ANTAGONIZE
BEIJING -- Yahoo Inc., Google Inc. and other U.S. Internet companies under fire for assisting in China's censorship efforts are insisting they must obey Beijing or risk limiting access to their most promising market.As the companies face congressional hearings in Washington today about their role in aiding the communist regime, they are appealing to the U.S. government for help, saying no private business can resist China on its own. Yet analysts say that even if Washington...
Chinese Blog: Browsing in China,
Take down the Internet's new Great Wall
In congressional hearings last week, senior executives from some of the most powerful U.S. companies got an earful about their dealings with Communist China. How often do Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google and Cisco get lectures on their failure to stand up for human rights and freedom of expression? Not often, one imagines. So, kudos to Rep. Chris Smith's House International Relations Subcommittee on Human Rights for taking an interest in the issue of the Internet in China. The...
Chinese Blog: SinoCast China IT Watch:
Will Mobile Blog be A Lifesaver?
HANGZHOU, February 21, SinoCast -- One side, China Mobile, the biggest mobile telecom carrier in China, reins in the overheating rough-and-tumble traditional Internet service market, in the other side, it is finding opportunities in WAP sector. Mobile blog is one of the gold mines of China Mobile.Bokee.com now is in the middle of series of negotiations with China Mobile. And it launched early this year the mobile blog services aiming at mobile phone users with helps of China Mobile. The...