beijing olympics

A lot of blogs have weekly roundups of their posts. This one hasn’t. After all, I don’t write more than seven posts a week (rather only half of that or less), and the ten most recent posts can be found to the top right of the main page. So if someone wants a roundup, he [...]

The ticket scammers who defrauded people by selling non-existent tickets through the internet are getting ready for the Vancouver and London Olympics.
“I was shocked by the brilliance and hard work of the thieves fleecing the Olympic family — and they are setting up to do the same thing in Vancouver in 2010 and London in [...]
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“In a sense, this was China struggling to pay lip service to an international idea of human rights without breaching its own boundaries.”
Jill McGivering, BBC News

China Tech News reports:
The National Development and Reform Commission of China has released a special notice on the commercial trial and the equipment industrialization of IPv6 on its official website.
…The notice says that to actively promote the application and the industry development of China’s next-generation Internet business, a commercial trial of the next-generation Internet business [...]
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The South China Morning Post reports:
The Beijing Olympic Games will spark an outbreak of aggressive hacker activity, topping a wave of intense malicious internet attacks expected next year, according to security experts.
They said Beijing Olympics-related websites were prime targets for so-called large-scale denial-of-service attacks. These actions prevent legitimate users from accessing a site’s information or [...]
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Reuters, via Yahoo News reports:…state media said authorities were building a database of information on about 30,000 foreign journalists accredited to cover Beijing 2008.The information would be shared with potential interviewees, to keep them from being tricked by “fake reporters,” the report in the state-run China Daily quoted the head of the General Administration of [...]
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I recently mentioned in passing a report that China had surpassed the 600 million mark for mobile phone users. Sure enough, the Ministry of Information Industry chose just that moment to make me an ass. From People’s Daily:China’s mobile phone users exceeded 515 million by the end of August this year, with a [...]
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