great firewall of china

There's no doubting that Lenovo is one of the Chinese tech scene's greatest success stories. The electronics manufacturer is growing fast is set to overtake HP and become the world's top PC manufacturer fairly soon. Small wonder then that the Chinese government wants another five companies just like it.In ...

Everyone knows that China’s internet is censored. There’s the government-run firewall that blocks and interferes with unwanted sites, and then there’s the extensive network of self-censors at all of China’s internet companies who delete content they fear might incur the wrath of the regime.But what if that wasn't true? What ...

China’s has the largest online population on the planet, over 500-million people by most estimates. Add in 300-million people with accounts on its various microblogging sites (called weibos) and you can see why advertisers might be clamouring to go online.That drive for online advertising is only being fuelled by ...

Months after revealing that its online adult population had gone past the 500-million mark, Chinese state authorities announced that more than 300-million people in the country have microblogging accounts.The microblogs, known as weibos (pronounced wei-bohr), emerged and went from strength to strength after Chinese censors blocked Twitter in 2009. ...

Ratcheting up its increasingly stern line with Beijing on trade issues, Washington has added concerns about China's infamous Great Firewall saying that it may be hurting US companies' access to Chinese consumers.This concern, amongst others, was put forth in a letter by US Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ...

Following what many had taken to be a regime-imposed silence, famed Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has returned to Twitter.Ai tweeted for the first time this weekend since his April arrest and subsequent June release on the back of public pressure from a number of international bodies.One ...

Chinese online media company Sina Corporation is set to launch an English version of its microblogging site Weibo (pronounced Wei-bohr), and it's worth seeing how the site stacks up against Twitter, its Western counterpart.China is often berated for the facsimiles it produces of Western technological innovations. It's no laughing ...

It's like something out of a spy movie: On the 1st of June, Google announced that it had uncovered a "campaign to collect user passwords" that was aimed at the personal Gmail accounts of "senior US government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military ...

Pop quiz: As an internet user, what is the world's worst country to live in? China with its Great Firewall comes to mind. Or perhaps Cuba, a country that until the end of Fidel Castro's reign in 2008 outlawed laptop computers and mobile phones. But it is in fact the ...

Much is made of the repressive "Great Firewall of China" that blocks any online information the Chinese government does not want made known to its population. As much is made of China's economy and how it represents massive business opportunities for Western companies. What has been given less attention, however, ...