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on October 17, 2007
According to the BBC, Asia is getting its own domain extension: dot asia.
Remember the days when there were basically only half a dozen or so Internet domain extensions? Dot com meant that it was a c...
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on October 8, 2007
We talked a few weeks ago about little known China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) and how they planned to float an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Well boy did it float!
In looking at the stock's deb...
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on October 6, 2007
It's been awhile since we mentioned the ongoing race to create virtual worlds for Chinese consumers. UOneNet is making news at the moment as its plans to alpha test it's new virtual world in D...
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on September 30, 2007
The idea has been floated and rejected in America a couple of times. Now the Chinese are considering e-stamps for email in China as a way of preventing SPAM.
SPAM is a term commonly used to refer to ...
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on September 23, 2007
CiviBlog Dot Org has an excellent article online at the moment about internet censorship in China.
Many countries (perhaps most) exercise some amount of censorship over the Internet. In most cases t...
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on September 19, 2007
A relatively small, little known company named China digital tv has filed with the SEC for a US$150 million IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The company "develops software used in conditional ...
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on September 3, 2007
You've probably seen at least one headline on it by now: China is adding Internet patrols to the list of police activities. It's not quite the thought police, but it's pretty dad gum close...
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on August 11, 2007
You know you're spending too much time online when a government agency wants you to go through addiction counseling, right?
In the past week I've seen at least ten news articles or blog posti...
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on August 11, 2007
Some disturbing bits of news about the most popular online virtual world, Second Life, came across my desk this week and, though the news was truly disturbing, it was also insightful regarding the suc...
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on August 5, 2007
Hats off to the people at Gizmodo for their blog post on the release of Lenovo's new $199 basic laptop in China.
In a market where digital TV and the Internet are growing by leaps and bounds alre...
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on July 31, 2007
The people at CScout recently interviewed HiPiHi Founder Hui Xu. We last mentioned HiPiHi at the end of May when it came out that they'd gotten a hit of venture capital money to launch a virtual w...
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on July 15, 2007
Online game company 9you this week postponed its Osaka IPO listing in the face of a threatened lawsuit by T3 Entertainment. 9you is the China operator of T3 Entertainment's Audition music game. T3...
