Accidents waiting to happen
As if the traffic in Chinese cities wasn’t dangerous enough, Research In Motion (RIM) has won an eight year battle to be able to sell their BlackBerry devices in China. If you don’t have one of these, you won’t understand, but if you do have one, you’ll understand why people call [...]
Internet censorship seems to be a hotly-debated topic when China is brought up in conversation lately, but it looks like Beijing (as in the Chinese government as a whole) has the support of the people in at least one area: the fight against online pornography.
According to an article on China.org.cn, the Chinese government [...]
If China were a company’s R&D department, they would be Microsoft’s. What do I mean? Well, does Microsoft ever come up with anything new anymore? No, they just go around buying up everybody else’s good ideas or blatantly ripping them off. Sure, a long time ago Microsoft was ground-breaking, but now [...]
This is a pretty interesting article on Gizmodo that speculates about that and which country will move in to take its place once it happens.
Here’s a selected quote from the article:
“After all, the natural cycle in gadget production has been for a country to start out as a purveyor of discount knock-offs, then gradually reinvent [...]
Since most of my readers (all 2 of you) know nothing about how the internet works, I’ll leave a lot of the technical details behind the article in this post. Trust me, they would bore you (and me) stiff.
Basically, the internet has been running out of IP addresses (every website has an address) because of the [...]
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