7659.com is a Chinese “app store” that is using Apple’s own bulk enterprise licensing technology to distributed pirated apps to Chinese iPhone and iPad users, completely free.
April 29th, 2013 at 1:14 pm
Chinese ‘app store’ 7659.com lets you install pirated iPhone apps — without jailbreaking
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April 25th, 2013 at 9:27 am
Air pollution is radically changing childhood in China
Four year old Wu Xiaotian has breathing problems that are linked to air pollution.
A boy in China has a chronic cough and stuffy nose that began last year at the age of 3. When smog across northern China surged to record levels this winter his symptoms worsened. Now he needs his sinuses cleared every night with saltwater piped through a machine’s tubes.
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April 2nd, 2013 at 10:22 am
China’s dead pig dumping scandal
Over 16,000 dead pigs have been found in China’s rivers.
The “dead animals in Chinese rivers” toll seems to have stabilized. According to recent reports, over 16,000 dead pigs have been joined by 1,000 dead ducks and, rather ominously, 13 dead black swans in China’s rivers. The discovery of so many carcasses has elicited no small amount of public concern in China, as well as mockery elsewhere — even Jay Leno got into the act.
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March 27th, 2013 at 10:24 am
Canada and China challenge U.S. for startup supremacy
Canada and China beef up efforts to lure the next generation of business leaders.
The world’s brightest innovators and entrepreneurs have long been drawn to the United States. They have come here to launch firms like Intel, Merck and Google.
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March 7th, 2013 at 10:33 am
China’s Twitter censorship measured by computer scientists
Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.
China’s version of Twitter, a microblogging service called Weibo was launched in 2010. Just like Twitter, users are allowed to post 140 character messages with @username and #hashtags. 140 characters in Chinese contain significantly more information content than in English.
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February 28th, 2013 at 9:40 am
The cyber-cold war between China and U.S.
Cyber cold-war
A lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group that has stolen terabytes of data for corporations in America was circulated to the country’s internet providers last week by the Obama administration. But, it left out an important fact that almost every one of the digital addresses could be traced to he neighborhood in Shanghai that is headquarters to the Chinese military’s cybercommand.
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February 21st, 2013 at 11:23 am
Chinese army tied to cyber attacks against U.S.
Satellite shot of the building from the report.
New York Times correspondents David Sanger and David Barboza, and technology reporter Nicole Perlroth are out with a huge report on Chinese cyber-attacks on US companies. The New York Times has gotten their hands on an advanced copy of a report by Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm the newspaper had previously hired when it got hacked.
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February 19th, 2013 at 10:54 am
88% of Apple’s suppliers are in Asia, 11% in U.S.
Apple’s suppliers in Asia.
Apple released a list of its 748 suppliers last month. According to a new data visualization by ChinaFile, more than 600 of them are in Asia, and more than half of those are in China.
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February 12th, 2013 at 11:14 am
China from space at night from 1992 to 2010
1992
There is a very cool film loop from the NOAA showing the progression of the night sky in China from 1992 to 2010. You can watch the full animation here. Above is a photo of 1992 and here is 2010. (Pics)
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February 1st, 2013 at 11:17 am
Chinese hackers target New York Times
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao
The New York Times has been under constant attack from Chinese Hackers for four months and they have gone public with the story. The Chinese hackers got wind that the Times was was preparing to reveal that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family acquired $2.7 billion in assets.
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