iPhone in China: The Question Is When
A myriad of interesting articles by way of @frankyu, pointing us to iPhonAsia.com: • An Apple executive team is apparently going to Beijing. Local media repots that Greg Joswiak, Apple VP for iPhone Product...
Category: China / Mainland China
China: Migrant Workers Have Their Go on Macs
Migrant workers — you know, those people who make anything from high-rises to Subway systems possible in China, are those people who go into works sites and get on with the work in near-total...
iPhone + China: No Wifi, China Unicom
If you thought that China was without an iPhone, you’re wrong. Many folks have their iPhones in China over from Hong Kong or overseas, and your fellow blogger himself is an iPhone user and...
MSN Turns 10; Beijing Evening Paper Creates “MSN Republic”
In a year where China’s getting increasingly on edge about anything that might create a political or social stability manhole just before the Big Sixty, when the PRC turns 60 on October 1, 2009,...
Bits and Bobs: Views on the Chinese Internet, September 2008 (Part One)
It’s just about two months before the Chinese Blogger Conference 2008 is reality — I’m already thinking of making a second trip back (last year was my first). Since that 2007 conf in Beijing...
Chinese Olympic Team: Win A Gold Medal, Get A .cn Domain Reserved
For many a Chinese athlete at the Games, winning a gold medal has never gotten better. The newest reason why: CNNIC. Yes, you heard it right: Sohu IT forums has it that the Chinese...
Farewell, China Netcom?
Are the days of China Netcom (中国网通) numbered? After the recent telco remix-cum-swallow-ups, authorized by the supreme Chinese telco gods, it looks like that the days of CNC, or China Netcom, could very well...
Please Mind The Gap: Chinese and American Site Design Concepts
The Melcher Ruwart clan has an interesting view on a topic that could be paraphrased with “nicer language” — the question Why do most Chinese sites look like crap?”. And we quote: Whenever I...
New “All Your Net Video Are Belong To Us” Bill In Effect; A Case of Half and Half
The much-feared and easily-misunderstood “all your net video are belong to us” bill has taken effect in the PRC today. Under this bill, all audio and video sites inside China (geographically) must be owned...
The Chinese Web in 2007: Special, Not Web 2.0, Misunderstood
Gang Lu’s Mobinode has an interesting story about the Chinese Web in 2007. Three things figure out prominently: the Chinese web remains special, it’s still not all that Web 2.0, and there’s still a...
