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!
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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.
Malware on Baidu
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!Place-shifters as a Substitute for Mobile TV-specific Technologies?
Beginning on December 1, 2006, Hutchison Whampoa's mobile operator arm, 3, will offer Sling Media's place-shifting software as part of a flat rate package of wireless applications called "X-Series." As mentioned in a recent BusinessWeek article, X-Series will initially be launched in Britain, and will also include other third-party applications which mobile operators have largely avoided partnerships with such as Orb (another place-shifting application), Skype, and three of the top instant messaging applications Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, and MSN Messenger.Slinging in Beijing for The Big Game!
The biggest college football game of the year, #1 ranked Ohio State versus #2 ranked Michigan, began this morning at about 4:30am Beijing time. Unfortunately, for Dave and I, the horribly inconvenient start time ended up being far less of an issue than finding a place to watch the game.
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