GitHub Blocked In China Thanks To The Railway Ministry’s Crappy Ticketing...
Image via Charlie Custer/Tech in Asia The Golden Shield Project (aka Great Firewall of China) has decided GitHub no longer conforms with Chinese notions of harmony, as first noticed Monday by...
View ArticleGitHub Has Been Unblocked, Maybe
The social coding website GitHub, which fell on the wrong side of the Great Firewall on Monday, has apparently been restored on the mainland, though as you can see from the above via GreatFire.org,...
View ArticleOn Botnets, Spam, Trojans, And Other Malware In China: How Vulnerable Are We?
Image via Lookout.com On January 15, BBC News ran a report about a Trojan virus affecting millions of users in China. According to undisclosed security firms, there now exists a botnet on these...
View ArticleIn New Book, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Says China’s Hacking Culture Could...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has a new book ready to debut in April, The Digital Age, co-written by Jared Cohen, formerly of the State Department. As the Wall Street Journal puts it succinctly, the...
View ArticleMalware In China, Part 2: iOS Users Are Vulnerable, Too
Before Spring Festival, we warned Beijing Cream readers about some of the dangers of using Android, how a specific type of malware works, and what users can do to protect themselves. As mentioned in...
View ArticleSkype In China Might Not Offer Privacy, But Why Would You Expect It To?
I ran across this piece on a blog for the Heritage Foundation in which the author tries to connect the recent accusations from Mandiant about hacking from China (still without conclusive evidence) and...
View ArticleIs The Chinese Government Taking Action To Decrease Android’s Market Share?
Cell phones are a vital possession, no doubt, but how to choose one in China, where the selection seems endless? Real, fake, cheap, smart, new, stolen, mixture of several previous phones, one SIM card...
View ArticleChinese State-Owned Telecoms Feel Threatened By WeChat, Call Upon Powerful...
In China, if you can’t beat them, call upon your buddies in a high-ranking ministry to bring them down to your level. China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, three state-owned telecom...
View ArticleOnline Petitioning Now Available In China, If Government Servers Can Handle...
China’s government is still figuring out how servers work. Either that or it’s hilariously naive, specifically about what might happen when 1.3 billion people are offered a fast, convenient way of...
View ArticleLook Who Endorses WeChat: Why, Just The Best Footballer In The World
Lionel Messi endorses WeChat, i.e. Weixin, i.e. the next Sina Weibo, as some people have called it on account of its functionality and interstellar growth. You can send texts for free (pending...
View ArticleHighlights From ChinaJoy 2013
Games and cosplay in China meet every year around this time during the China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference in Shanghai, aka ChinaJoy. First started in 2004, this expo is ostensibly all...
View ArticleXiaomi’s Twitter Account Is Pretty Darn Interesting
Xiaomi, you’re all right. Recently tabbed in a Time headline as “China’s threat to Apple and Samsung,” you probably know this company, founded in 2010, for its Mi3 handset, which sells for a slim $327...
View ArticleBaidu’s Photo Translation App Yields Hilarious, Absurd Results [UPDATE]
The greatest new app on the market is Baidu Translate, available for Android and iOS, which has the ability to identify and translate everyday objects using only a photograph. Amazing, right? You have...
View ArticleLook Who’s Wearing Google Glass: Chengguan
Of course, chengguan. OF COURSE. Via ECNS: An urban management officer, or Chengguan, in Jiangsu province has started wearing Google Glass as part of his law enforcement kit, the Yangtze Evening Post...
View ArticleThe Creamcast, Ep.19: Tech In China (Bookworm Literary Festival)
Download podcast | Size: 65.1 MB On March 21 as part of the Bookworm Literary Festival, Mark Natkin (founder and managing director of Marbridge Consulting), Kaiser Kuo (director of international...
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