Written by Edmund Hung
Thursday, 01 February 2007 16:00
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!
Written by Edmund Hung
Monday, 15 January 2007 16:00
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.
Written by Edmund Hung
Monday, 27 November 2006 16:00
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!
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Written by Edmund Hung
Sunday, 26 November 2006 16:00
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.
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Written by Boaz Rottenberg
Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:00
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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