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Facebook hopes to re-friend China

Facebook has its sights on China, where the social media titan is blocked, but analysts say its chances of re-entering the market of half a billion internet users are slim.

By AAP | 06 February, 2012 10:01

Tags: social networking, Facebook, China
U.S. losing high-tech jobs, R&D dominance to Asia

U.S. companies are locating more of their research and development operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science and technology economies, the National Science Board (NSB) reported this week.

By Ann Bednarz | 20 January, 2012 03:20

Tags: research and development, R&D, networking, National Science Foundation, National Science Board, management, infrastructure management, high-tech manufacturing, China
Number of China web users hits 513 million

The number of internet users in China has surged past 500 million as millions of new web surfers go online using mobile phones and tablet computers, an industry group reports.

By AAP | 16 January, 2012 16:33

Tags: internet, China
Your identity up for grabs

Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars.

By Mark Gibbs | 14 January, 2012 04:35

Tags: Walgreens, US Bank, tivo, The College Board, sony, security, rsa, privacy, mortgage, lockheed martin, Kroger, JPMorgan Chase, Home Shopping Network, Epsilon, EMC, divorce, Disney Destinations, Citi, China, Capital One, Brookstone, Best Buy, anonymous
Security roundup: DOD revving up cyber-defense for 2012; Microsoft to have big January Patch Tuesday

Buried in the lengthy National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, the $622 billion defense spending bill which was signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 31, 2011, are some interesting nuggets about how the U.S. military wants to expand its cyber-defense strategy over the course of this year.

By Ellen Messmer | 07 January, 2012 07:35

Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Cyber Command, symantec, security, Microsoft, Lords of Dharmaraja, Department of Defense, China, APT, anonymous

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Features about China

Clock may be ticking for Google to act on China

About two weeks after Google publicly squared off with the Chinese government, the world is still watching for the search company's next step.

By Sharon Gaudin | 29 January, 2010 08:50

Tags: Google, China
World of Warcraft awaits China's approval to relaunch

The relaunch of the popular online game World of Warcraft in China, where it has already been offline for six weeks, still faces an indefinite delay as it awaits government approval for its content.

By Owen Fletcher | 20 July, 2009 17:31

Tags: blizzard, censorship, China, world of warcraft
China's Internet lockdown hurts local e-businesses

China has started restoring some Internet access to a province where it was blocked after deadly ethnic riots two weeks ago, but the outage has already taken a toll on local businesses.

By Owen Fletcher | 20 July, 2009 21:00

Tags: China, e-business
Has China's Green Dam burst?

China did a sudden about-face late yesterday and decided to delay its controversial requirement that all computers sold after July 1 must come with Web filtering software.

By Ian Paul | 03 July, 2009 16:14

Tags: censorship, China, Green Dam Youth Escort
Bing filters out sensitive results for Chinese searches

Microsoft's Bing search engine filters out some sensitive results from searches made in simplified Chinese, the script used to write the language in China, searches revealed Thursday.

By Owen Fletcher | 25 June, 2009 20:30

Tags: bing, China, internet filtering, Microsoft

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