the tl;dr - According to some guy, the US government made Google leave backdoor access on all Gmail accounts, letting Chinese hackers in.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html#cnnSTCText
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
numbers on google.cn
Yeah, so, some numbers to back me up. In China, Google has about 35% of the search engine market share, Baidu has 60%. Similarly, Ebay finds it hard to compete against local Alibaba's Taobao and AIM/MSN with Tencent's QQ. My guess is that Google pulling out of China is
1. Likely
2. No big deal.
Especially since Chinese people love their "patriotic hackers".
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1. Likely
2. No big deal.
Especially since Chinese people love their "patriotic hackers".
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Google and China
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
the tl;dr, if an unbiased one is possible: Google blames the Chinese Government for cyberattacks against human rights activists and plans to pull google.cn out of China if things don't change.
what's interesting to read is the "links to this post" on the bottom, some of which give this article "A new approach to China" a different title and spin. On one of these sites, there sits a lone comment about how Google, like the rest of America, thinks that its duty is to show other countries "the light" until they mature into capitalists/democracies/Christians.
Unfortunately there's no way I can talk about this without being personal or unbiased. It is very hard for a Chinese person to let someone criticize the Chinese government. Most Chinese people believe that the western media has an anti-China bias and that censorship by the Chinese government is fine (though a bit overboard). However, I trust google not to pull any stupid shit.
Google doesn't have much to gain from an anti-China message; since it's 2006 entry into China the controversy has really died down. People seem to have accepted Google's "greater good" rhetoric. All was going well until Google decided hacking into the gmail accounts of human rights activists was too much. There no longer exists the "greater good" and I will applaud Google for having the courage to say 'I was wrong'. They could have tried to hide this from the public, pretend nothing was wrong and deny all knowledge... But they made the right decision. For truthfully presenting me with this deep moral dilemma, I will say
thank you
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the tl;dr, if an unbiased one is possible: Google blames the Chinese Government for cyberattacks against human rights activists and plans to pull google.cn out of China if things don't change.
what's interesting to read is the "links to this post" on the bottom, some of which give this article "A new approach to China" a different title and spin. On one of these sites, there sits a lone comment about how Google, like the rest of America, thinks that its duty is to show other countries "the light" until they mature into capitalists/democracies/Christians.
Unfortunately there's no way I can talk about this without being personal or unbiased. It is very hard for a Chinese person to let someone criticize the Chinese government. Most Chinese people believe that the western media has an anti-China bias and that censorship by the Chinese government is fine (though a bit overboard). However, I trust google not to pull any stupid shit.
Google doesn't have much to gain from an anti-China message; since it's 2006 entry into China the controversy has really died down. People seem to have accepted Google's "greater good" rhetoric. All was going well until Google decided hacking into the gmail accounts of human rights activists was too much. There no longer exists the "greater good" and I will applaud Google for having the courage to say 'I was wrong'. They could have tried to hide this from the public, pretend nothing was wrong and deny all knowledge... But they made the right decision. For truthfully presenting me with this deep moral dilemma, I will say
thank you
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Cell phones minus the phone
Well, this was already obvious to anyone that's paying attention, but people aren't using their cell phones to make phone calls anymore.
So here's the numbers, oddly from Fortune magazine.
In the last two years, average number of text messages sent per month has doubled from 218 to 584. The average number of calls has decreased 15%, I'm guessing to under 200 calls a month.
Combined with the data from this 2008 article, the number of cell phone calls made per month peaked at 228 in the middle of 2007 and has been slowly falling since. The average amount of time spent talking on a cell phone per month seems to be 13 hours.
In other news, it's hard to find any statistics on cell phones that aren't about how cell phones cause car accidents
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So here's the numbers, oddly from Fortune magazine.
In the last two years, average number of text messages sent per month has doubled from 218 to 584. The average number of calls has decreased 15%, I'm guessing to under 200 calls a month.
Combined with the data from this 2008 article, the number of cell phone calls made per month peaked at 228 in the middle of 2007 and has been slowly falling since. The average amount of time spent talking on a cell phone per month seems to be 13 hours.
In other news, it's hard to find any statistics on cell phones that aren't about how cell phones cause car accidents
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