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Internet in China: Internet population hit 384 million in 2009

China's population of Internet users jumped by nearly a third to 384 million at the end of 2009, an official report showed recently, just a few days after Google threatened to retreat from the expanding market [...]
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Internet in China: 3G brings mobile porn, China launches cleanup

Beijing has called for a cleanup of mobile porn Web sites nationwide on recently, with government officials blaming their rise on high-speed mobile data services enabled by the launch of new technology [...]
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Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: Over 180 million internet users access Internet via mobile phone

As of the end of August 2009, 181 million Chinese netizens were using mobile phones as wireless Internet access terminals and this number is steadily increasing, according to a report jointly issued by China Internet Network Information Center and CR-Nielsen [...]
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Internet in China: broadband users top 99.33 million

China added 16.45 million broadband users in the first nine months of 2009, bringing the total to 99.33 million, data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently showed [...]
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Internet in China: Baidu eyes 3G wireless Internet technology

China's most popular Internet search engine Baidu thinks highly of the prospect of 3G wireless Internet access technology and is now in talk with China's mobile network operators for cooperation, the company's CEO Robin Li said recently at the Boao Forum for Asia in the southern island province of Hainan [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12

[Technology] Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million: Sharon LaFraniere reports in th.. http://tinyurl.com/crhau5 # [China] ‘Positive signs’ for China economy: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says that his country’s economy is.. http://tinyurl.com/cus4ha # Apparently @DanielLannon (from “The Frail”) is following me: either this is a hoax, or I’m so not worthy! # [Technology] 7 [...]
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Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: China Telecom starts 3G trials

China Telecom, the country's largest fixed-line operator, started trials of the third-generation (3G) mobile services in Shanghai recently, and plans to extend the same nationwide soon. Shanghai Telecom, China Telecom's subsidiary, said it would invest 6 billion yuan (nearly 1 Billion US dollars) on various projects including the 2010 Shanghai Expo World, 3G-network construction, and enterprise services this year [...]
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Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: Over 117 Million Mobile Internet Users in China

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently released two reports on China’s mobile Internet, according to the reports, by the end of 2008, there were already over 640 million mobile phone users in China, and the number of users who access the Internet via mobile phone already exceeded 117.6 million, according to the Research Report on Behavior of Internet Access via Mobile Phone released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on February 18 in Beijing...
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“Tap is the New Click”: Dan Saffer´s talk at NYC IxDA Face-to-Face meeting

How do you create products for this new paradigm? While most of us know how to design desktop and web applications, what do you need to know to design for interactive gestures? This introduction to designing gestural interfaces will cover the basics: usability and ergonomics; a brief history of the technology; some elemental patterns of use; prototyping and documenting; and how to communicate that a gestural interface is present to users [...]
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