I am not sure if this is true or not, or whether there is enough demand for QQ services on the Mac. I would like to hope, however, that they can first get QQ to work properly on an English version of Windows XP before starting to work on the MacOS.
I was out at Chaoyang Park this weekend for the Beijing Pop Festival, headlined by Brett Anderson and Public Enemy on Saturday and Cuijian and Nine Inch Nails on Sunday. The rock-focused lineup attracted an enthused crowd of local Chinese and foreigners, while the high ticket prices (RMB 250 for one day and RMB 380 for two) attracted a slew of ticket scalpers looking to cash in on those looking for a discounted path into the concert grounds.
It has been over a month since the earthquake off the coast of Taiwan, during the time which access to non-Chinese hosted websites were largely unavailable due to slow Internet speeds. Over two weeks after the widely quoted January 15th date (from IHT, from China Daily), I am happy to announce that Internet speeds are finally back to normal in Beijing!
According to an article published on USA Today’s website on December 31, 2006 , Internet was supposed to be "back to normal" by today. I wasn’t holding my breath on this report, and it’s a good thing because access to websites originating abroad on my 1 Mbps ADSL service remains at remains at ISDN-like speeds of less than 150Kbps.
China Daily reports today that it could be two more weeks until the fiber-optic cables will be repaired; let's hope they are right this time.
I recently did a search on Baidu, China's top search engine, for the name of a Chinese song I heard earlier in the day (I usually use Google for web searches, but Baidu is well-known in China for finding free mp3 music steams and downloads so I thought I'd give it a try). Today, I scanned my laptop using Ad-Aware and found 35 new spyware, 30 of which were BHO's coming from Baidu!
