When to comes to Wi-Fi amongst the big financial cities, London is now The Don, according to a new survey.
Just like the Stereo MCs, the RSA Security report tried to get connected, donning its supercharged Pringle tin receiver and prowling the streets of London, New York and Paris.
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Google sparked outrage in the blogging world and elsewhere, when in January 2006 it decided to doctor the search results it gave users of its service in mainland China, to appease the government.
It was presented by those against the move as a significant blow against Google’s oft quoted mantra, “Don’t be evil.”
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A five day gathering in Changsha, China has netted an agreement between a collection of 11 provinces and regions in the Pan-Pearl River Delta (know locally as Pan-PRD), to create a Web site to provide information on the availability of jobs in major cities.
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Looks like there’s a danger of some of the open-source software world and Microsoft breaking out into a huge big love in.
Linspire, which started life as Lindows in an effort to antagonise Microsoft, has announced an agreement with the Redmond giant to co-operate in a number of areas.
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In a long line of partnerships deals, designed to improve their standing – and income – within Mainland China, Google has signed a deal with China’s number one portal, Sina.com.
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In Part One, we looked at some of apps which prove on the Treo, in this final part we cover entertainment and working on the move.
To keep me topped up with the latest news, I also fired up QuickNews to speedily download some RSS feeds as our train hurtled through the East Sussex countryside.
Miraculously, apart from a few phone calls and texts, I managed to leave my phone well alone for most of the evening, but after my girlfriend had retired to bed, weary of my Adnams Ale-fuelled waffling, the Treo was on hand to provide some entertainment.
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ChinaCache, a Beijing-based provider of Content Delivery Network services, has received an additional $31.5m dollar investment, from Western companies, including Intel Capital, reports the China Daily Newspaper.
They’ll be using part of the investment to further expand their current 50-city strong network to cope with the growing demands for audio and video, with the rest of it to purchase competitors to maintain its market position.
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Sitting here in Beijing, I thought I’d give those of our readers who don’t live in China (the vast majority of you … currently :) ) a view of what Google China looks like.
With the unexpected offer of a weekend away at the coast suddenly popping up, I quickly packed my bag with my gadget essentials – Palm Treo 650, GPS unit, Ricoh GX100, Nikon D80 and various chargers – and headed to the station.
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The number of personal computers in use around the world will exceed one billion by the end of next year and grow to a mighty two billion by the year 2015, according to a report by a leading market research firm.
Forrester Research’s new paper, “Worldwide PC Adoption Forecast, 2007 To 2015,” calculates that the world will be clattering along to the sound of a billion computer keyboards by the end of 2008, hitting two billion in 2015.
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