It was mentioned at the World Broadband Forum Asia in Beijing that an unnamed Chinese Government Official has said that they hoped that Beijing will become a city bathed in Wireless before the World Fair arrives in China in 2010. They also hope for Shanghai to benefit from city-wide coverage too. We’ll dig around to … Continue reading Beijing Could Go Wireless: Rumour: WBFA
DSL continues to be the dominant technology for broadband connections – now hitting 200m worldwide.
When I was in Beijing last year there was a lot of talk of the current Olympic being the first ‘Broadband Olympics.’ It appear that for one US broadcaster, NBC, it’s becoming true. The number of people accessing their Olympic coverage are highly impressive. After a week of the Games, NBC have had 25 million … Continue reading NBC Olympic Online Figures Are Huge
Western journalists are now complaining that their access to the World Wide Web is being limited. The Times asserts that the International Olympic Committee has ‘disclosed,’ that “A deal with Beijing has allowed the Chinese authorities to block sensitive Internet sites.
There’s gold in them tha caches, bets Western investment funds, as they invest in a Chinese CDN.
It’s clear that China like to do things their own way. The latest in the list is a video CoDec’s, the algorithm that is used to compress/decompress video signals. Much of the world currently uses H.264, but China has developed its own equivalent, that they call AVS, standing for Audio Video coding Standard – an … Continue reading AVS: China’s H.264 Rival In Testing By China Telecom
Free IM between mobiles and PC. Should be interesting to see how that effects SMS income.
China has a self-declared battle against porn going on at the moment and on the back of that Liu Yunshan, head of the Communist Party of China Central Committee’s Publicity Department – a big cheese – has put forward the idea of “building a Web culture with Chinese characteristics.”
China is finding that the desire form porn isn’t just limited to the West. They’re taking action to chase it down.
Moo cards rock – not only that , but they’re easy to do too.