Posts Tagged ‘China’
‘Trojanized’ version of Google Android security tool found in China
Someone has modified a version of software Google released to clean up infected Android phones and released it on an unregulated marketplace in China, Symantec says.
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Days before the G20 financial summit in London, Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, called for a new currency to eventually replace the US dollar. The dollar, which was made the reserve currency after World War II, has come under increased pressure of late. Barak Obama, the US president, cast doubt upon calls by senior Chinese authorities for the creation of a new global currency to replace the dollar as the standard bearer for the world.
Craig Stephen’s This Week in China: China becomes world’s No. 2 economy
When it comes to trade, China is the 800 lb. gorilla, with its massive demand dictating the price of a wide range of goods and commodities. And as China is now the world’s No. 2 economy, watch for changes in the ‘China price,’ writes Craig Stephen.
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Free Android apps scrape personal data, send it to China
Computerworld – Between one and four million users of Android phones have downloaded wallpaper apps that swipe personal data from the phone and transmit it to a Chinese-owned server, a mobile security firm said today.
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Novell and Tencent Establish Joint Cloud Computing Laboratory in China
BEIJING, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Novell and Tencent today announced the establishment of a research laboratory in Shenzhen, China to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform. Tencent, China’s largest Internet service portal with more than 480 million active users, is adopting SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server and PlateSpin® Orchestrate as its auto-deployment …
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MeeGo tablet unveiled in China
Red Flag Software has demonstrated a 10.1-inch tablet running its new MeeGo Linux version of Midinux 3.0 on an Intel Moorestown Z6xx processor, says Tech.qq. Equipped with Wi-Fi and 3G, the NPad tablet will go on sale in the third quarter, says the report.
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I know that the company has an agreement with the communist government to censor internet searches. Does anyone know what sites are censored? Or what type of general information? Can people use proxies to get around these restrictions? Thanks in advance.
If that’s true, then what DON’t they censor. Thanks.