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Internet in China: BitTorrent sites inaccessible, internet users distressed
Beijing Internet users are scrabbling for downloads from BitTorrent (BT) websites following speculation that authorities will shut them down soon [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in China, information technology, trends Also tagged 3G, 3G network, China Internet Network Information Center, CNY, internet, Internet In China, Internet use, Internet Users, iPhone, mobile devices, mobile Internet users, Mobile Phones, Mobile telecommunications, Report, wireless access, wireless communication, wireless networks Leave a comment
Internet in China: Comparing internet activities of Chinese and Americans
The Business Insider recently published a bar graph comparing the internet activities of United States of users with those of Chinese users. While some activities, like pursuing an online education or watching online video (one in the same, really), were statistically similar between the two counties, other activities were far more common in one country than the other, revealing some fundamental differences in Chinese and American tendencies [...]
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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 [...]
Internet in China: Timeline of the Pre-Installed Internet Filter required for All New Computers
China announced recently it would have all new computers in China pre-installed with a filter software, in a bid to "protect minors" from "unhealthy information" from the Internet. All computers produced or sold in China after July 1 would be installed with such software, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MITT). Check a round up of news about the Green Dam internet filter (and how conflicting the information is, depending if the source is Chinese or from abroad):
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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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Internet in China: Broandband Connections rising in Shanghai
Shanghai leads all Chinese cities for fast computer connections - half of the city's families subscribe to broadband, according to a recent report released by China Telecom. Shanghai's broadband subscriber base has passed three million already, 15 times up from 2002, according to Shanghai Telecom, the city's largest fixed-line phone operator. About 85 percent of Shanghai Telecom's broadband users are accessing the Internet at more than two MBPS (megabits per second) [...]
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e-Commerce in China: online sales boomed in 2009