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  • Beijing Could Go Wireless: Rumour: WBFA

    Beijing Could Go Wireless: Rumour: WBFAIt 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 try and find out more over the next few days.

    I’m in Beijing for the Broadband World Forum, so thought it would be interesting to pick stories from the local press on their reporting of technology news.

  • 200m DSL Customers Worldwide: China Broadband Numbers Huge

    The DSL Forum today announced that the total number of DSL connections worldwide has exceeded 200 million at the World Broadband Forum in Beijing.

    It’s estimated that this significant milestone was passed in April this year (2007), less than a year since the announcement of the passing of the 150m level.

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  • NBC Olympic Online Figures Are Huge

    NBC Olympic Online Figures Are HugeWhen 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 unique visitors to their NBCOlympics.com site.

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  • China Restricts Olympic Journalist Web Access. At Least They’re Open About It

    China Restricts Olympic Journalist Web Access. At Least They're Open About ItWestern 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.

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  • ChinaCache, Dominant Chinese CDN, Gets $32m Investment

    ChinaCache, Dominant Chinese CDN, Gets $32m InvestmentChinaCache, 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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  • AVS: China’s H.264 Rival In Testing By China Telecom

    AVS: China's H.264 Rival In Testing By China Telecom 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 acronym that is bound to cause confusions with the Microsoft-backed AVC.
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  • Fetion: China Mobile Launch Free Mobile IM

    China Mobile has launched its own IM service, Fetion. It offers PC and mobile phone messaging at zero charge, even from mobiles, with just the GPRS data charges being paid for. Users will be able to IM between mobiles running the service; PC to PC and PC to mobile. Currently there’s no monthly charge, although they haven’t ruled out of possibility of it.

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  • China Wants To ‘Building A Web Culture With Chinese Characteristics’

    China Wants To 'Building A Web Culture With Chinese Characteristics'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.”

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  • China Tackles Internet Porn

    China Tackles Internet PornThe month of May saw a month-long crackdown on Internet porn in China. The combined forces of 10 ministries lead the closing of 300 domestic porn and ‘salacious’ sites being closed down.

    Li Baozhong, head of the official press watchdog and deputy director of the national anti-porn and anti-piracy office also reported that they’d blocked 4,000 links to porn sites and filtered out more than 10,000 ‘online porn games’ – we’ve no idea what these porn games could be.

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  • Moo Mini-Cards Review (88%)

    Moo Cards Review (88%)It came as a surprise to me how excited I was about receiving my Moo cards today.

    I’ve been meaning to get some since they first surfaced, but my upcoming trip to the Broadband World Forum in Beijing next month brought the need further into focus.
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