Archive for the 'information technology' Category

• 06.26.08 Internet in China: majority of world’s malware originates from China
  
  "Stopbadware.org has released its latest findings on the prevalence of what it refers to as "badware," and the upward trend is not surprising. What is a bit startling, however, is how much of it flows from just one nation. Using data from Google's Safe Browsing initiative, StopBadware.org analyzed over 200,000 websites found to engage in badware behavior. The analysis found that over half of the sites were based on Chinese network blocks, with a small number of blocks accounting for most of the infected sites in that country. Compared to last year, the total number of sites was much higher, likely due both to increased scanning efforts by Google and to increased use of websites as a vector of malware infection."  read on
  
  posted in united states, korea, china, information technology, trends, internet
• 06.25.08 OCED on Innovation in China
  
  "OCED Observer is running a good piece this month assessing the state of innovation in China: "Part of China’s innovation stodginess reflects history: the Chinese R&D system has evolved from a Soviet-style mission approach, slowing the transition to a more market-led approach. Geography is also a factor, with many pockets of excellence living separate lives–more an archipelago than an interlinked whole. A glance at the map also reveals that the hot spots of innovation lie along the east coast. In bleak contrast stands the number of R&D facilities in the western and central provinces. Again, history comes in to play, since many of these sites were chosen during the Cold War because their remoteness from busy economic hubs was considered as a “third frontier” in defending Chinese intelligence...""  read on
  
  posted in innovation, industry, research, china, information technology, education, trends, economics
• 06.22.08 Internet in China: online shoppers spend 2.3 billion U.S. dollars in 1st half of 2008
  
  "Online Chinese shoppers spent 16.2 billion yuan (2.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 19 major cities in the first half of 2008, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said on recently. The findings were based on a survey carried out in four municipalities directly under the central government -- Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing -- and 15 developed cities such as Changchun, Dalian, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Jinan and Guangzhou, among others..."  read on
  
  posted in beijing, alibaba, taobao, market, shanghai, china, e-commerce, consumer behavior, trends, information technology, internet
• 06.15.08 Internet in China: Google banks on Chinese market
  
  "Google expects its position as the world's most popular online search site and sales from fast-growing Asian markets, including China, to help the company weather any United States recession. "One of the very good sources for Google is the very rapid growth in Asia," said Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, which gets almost all its revenue from advertising next to search results. Historically, people tend to shift their money to the most "highly measured" advertiser when there are "economic difficulties," he said recent at a briefing in Beijing."  read on
  
  posted in united states, market, baidu, google, china, trends, information technology, internet
• 06.06.08 “How to Make Good Design Decisions”, by Dan Saffer
  
  "About a year and a half ago, when Dan Saffer -- experience design director of Adaptive Path -- first started thinking about the material that would eventually become "UX Intensive: Interaction Design", he wondered what it was that helped designers make those leaps of faith, the great guesses, that we have to make on projects. So he came up with this talk, "How to Make Good Design Decisions"..."  read on
  
  posted in creativity, innovation, information technology, design
• 05.31.08 China’s Software Industry Revenue Rises 31.2%
  
  "China's software industry income amounted to 193.55 billion yuan from January to April, up 31.2 percent year-on-year, and 11.4 percentage points higher than the electronic information industry, according to information released by the Ministry of Industry and Information. The revenue from software products accounted for 70.39 billion yuan (10.2 billion US dollars): it is still the main component of the software industry. Revenue from software technology services saw the fastest growth and amounted to 35.63 billion yuan (5.1 billion US dollars), growing by 48.2 percent year-on-year. Revenue from system integration increased by 23.8 percent to 46.07 billion yuan (6.7 billion US dollars); and the growth rate of revenues from embedded systems and IC design are relatively low..."  read on
  
  posted in market, software, china, information technology, economics
• 05.31.08 Internet in China: Over 100 Million Youth Seek Fun Online
  
  "On April 25th, 2008, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the Research Report of China Youth Internet Behaviors. The report studies the online behaviors of 107 million China’s netizens under the age of 25. According to the report, China’s youth netizens are more inclined to entertainment demand. The most used online serves for youth are IM(91.3%), online music(91.1%), online movie/video(82.9%), search engine(73.4%), online games(68.2%), online news(63.4%) and email(58%). If compared with the average usage level of all Internet users, the usage rate of online games, online music and online movie/video among youth are much higher than average rate..."  read on
  
  posted in information technology, china, trends, consumer behavior, gaming, internet
• 05.30.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: 6 Telecoms to Merge Their Assets
  
  "China has told its six telecommunications companies to merge their assets, allowing fixed-line carriers to expand into wireless services and creating three operators that will offer phone and Internet connections to 1.3 billion people. Under the plan, the parent of China Telecom will buy a mobile phone network from the parent of China Unicom, which in turn will merge with the company that controls the China Netcom Group, the Ministry of Industry and Information said in a statement on Saturday. China will issue three third-generation wireless licenses after the overhaul is completed, it said..."  read on
  
  posted in population, market, japan, korea, industry, hong kong, economics, wealth, information technology, china, mobile
• 05.11.08 Autodesk sponsors project to develop Open Source GIS tools for kids
  
  "KidsGIS is a cool project from a group of professionals and educators out in Oregon (USA), who have been using MapGuide Open Source tools to create an open source geospatial portal as a tool for educating kids about environmental issues and about using open source software and open data standards. The project has an impressive group of sponsors, including the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, Autodesk, the San Diego Visualization and Supercomputer Centers, URISA, local governments and schools, and private companies such as Spatial Integrators and SPATIALinfo..."  read on
  
  posted in united states, geospatial, autodesk, software, education, information technology, environment
• 05.08.08 Internet in China: Virtual Worlds Roundup
  
  "BusinessWeek published a special report on virtual world recently, with one article on virtual World in China which featured Hipihi, Novoking and UOneNet (a.k.a. uWorld). Hipihi has announced the beginning of its public beta testing phase, after over a year private test. uWorld, another virtual world on BusinessWeek’s article which was first profiled in October 2007, finally started its close test in March. As Hipihi, uWorld also partnered with IBM on virtual world development. Kaiser Kuo is more optimistic on it, he thought “deep-rooted MMORPG culture” in China and “willingness of Chinese to strike up online friendships with strangers” will help them in the long run..."  read on
  
  posted in interaction, software, china, information technology, gaming, trends, internet

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