China Blocks Apple's ITunes, Amazon Over Tibet Songs
Chinese authorities appear to have blocked access to Apple's U.S. iTunes Music Store, following the release of the 20-song "Songs for Tibet - The Art of Peace" collection Wednesday.
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24.8.2008 Microsoft Blocks Windows Vista Rootkit Exploit
Microsoft has blocked the attack vector used to slip unsigned drivers past new security policies being implemented in Windows Vista, according to Joanna Rutkowska, the stealth malware researcher who created the exploit.
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21.10.2006 Windows 7: Build 7057 blocks third-party video codecs
Something we love about Windows 7 is that it has much better native codec support, like H.264 and AAC. But the price might be high: It looks like Windows 7 might block third-party video decoders.
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26.3.2009 Expiration dates for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 blocks announced
If you're an IT professional and currently using Microsoft's Service Pack Blocker, the software giant recently announced that the current blocks for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 are going to expire in a few months.
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30.1.2009 Microsoft to support Chinese document standard
Microsoft is expanding its repertoire of document formats. The company on Monday is expected to announce that it is sponsoring an open-source project to create a converter between Ecma Open XML--a set of file formats closely tied to Microsoft Office--and a Chinese national standard called Unified Office Format (UOF).
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21.5.2007 Microsoft Did Censor Critical Chinese Blog On Spaces
A Microsoft representative has responded to allegations surrounding the closure of a popular Chinese blog, confirming that the company did take the blog offline on New Years Eve.
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6.1.2006 Chinese Windows 2000 attack crashes PCs
Security researchers have spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned non-Chinese users to expect attacks.
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16.4.2008 Windows 7 Build 7106 Chinese Version - x86 & x64 Leaked
Yesterday a rumor started floating on internet that Windows 7 build 7106 will get leaked in 24 hours. However no one took this rumor seriously as their was no evidence or screenshot from claimer
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12.4.2009 Chinese Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition build 5840 Screenshot
This seems to be the current build that is in Escrow.
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24.10.2006 Over 10 Million Custom XP Downloads Get Chinese Pirates Jail Sentences
Chinese authorities cracked down on a group of four software pirates for offering a custom-built copy of Windows XP, which was downloaded in excess of 10 million times.
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24.8.2009China Blocks Apple's ITunes, Amazon Over Tibet Songs
Chinese authorities appear to have blocked access to Apple's U.S. iTunes Music Store, following the release of the 20-song "Songs for Tibet - The
Art of Peace" collection Wednesday. Users in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen confirmed that since as early as Wednesday morning, Beijing time, they
began receiving "unknown error" messages when they tried unsuccessfully to access the store. Although Apple does not operate an iTunes Store in
China, users may download free content such as podcasts, and those with U.S. credit cards may buy content from the U.S. store.
Although
Amazon.com remains available in China, its pages for both the "Songs for Tibet" CD and download page fail to load, returning: "The connection was
reset. The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading," the most common error message received for blocked sites.
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23.08.2008China gets free music from Google
According to Reuters, Internet-users in China will be able to download for free approximately 350,000 licensed songs--soon to be more than a
million--through Google. Not only will the Chinese be able to search for songs by artist and song title, but they will also be able to find tunes
based on beats per minute and musical style. The music, by Chinese and foreign artists alike, comes from Sony, Warner, EMI, and Universal--all
companies that have done deals with Google to open up portions of their catalogues for free distribution to anyone with an Internet connection in
China. China contains the highest number of Internet-users, and a great many of them routinely download music, films, and software illegally.
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31.03.2009China blocks YouTube
The Chinese government blocked access to YouTube on Sunday after videos of the protests in Tibet were posted on the video sharing site. The whole
website was blocked, not just specific videos as happened recently in Pakistan.
The site today, from London, has almost as many videos
opposing the Tibetan demonstrators as it does opposing the Chinese government. One titled "Tibet WAS, IS and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of CHINA" is
among the most viewed today.
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17.03.2008iTunes to Give Away 70 Million
Songs
Apple is teaming up with
Coca-Cola in Europe for a huge
iTunes giveaway, in which 70
million codes for free songs
will be distributed inside
packages from the soft drink
maker. The far majority of the
songs will be offered in the
United Kingdom, while 67,000
songs will be given away in
Germany...
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02.08.2006AOL Testing Chinese Language
Portal
While it's not yet ready to
officially enter the Chinese
market like rivals MSN, Yahoo
and Google, AOL has launched a
beta test for a Chinese
language version of its Web
portal. The site is designed
to reach the Chinese speaking
community in the United
States, rather than the
growing number of Internet
users in China...
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14.02.2006Microsoft sued over Chinese character conversion technology
Zhongyi Electronic Ltd., a small Chinese company, is suing Microsoft over a product which turns words typed in the Roman alphabet into Chinese
characters...
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18.01.2008New Chinese law finds Yahoo in copyright violation
Chinese courts handed the world's recording industry a significant victory Thursday, finding the search giant's Chinese music service was committing
copyright infringement...
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22.12.2007Google Censors Chinese Search
Results
Google on Wednesday launched a
Chinese version of its search
engine, with some concessions
in order to appease the
Chinese government. Searches
on the topics of human rights,
Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and
democracy now omit certain Web
sites and redirect to Chinese
government Web sites...
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25.01.2006New Chinese Involvement Could Trigger HD DVD Price Plunge
A consortium of Chinese university engineers and government officials, in cooperation with a Chinese video standards group that includes globally
recognized manufacturers, plus the DVD Forum, have come to an agreement on a standard specification for a blue-laser disc mechanism and format
specifically for the Chinese market. It means China could be producing low-price HD DVD mechanisms by this next summer...
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08.09.2007Google targeted in Chinese Internet crackdown
Google, alongside other popular web portals, was warned on Monday that they must do more to block pornographic content from reaching Chinese users, in
the latest in a series of crackdowns on Internet content by the Chinese government. Chinese authorities published a list of 19 websites that have
failed to get rid of unsuitable material. The list includes American search giant Google and China's top search engine Baidu. According to the
BBC, one Chinese official said that the websites could be closed down if they fail to delete the offending material.
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06.01.2009Did Yahoo Help Send a Chinese
Journalist to Jail?
Group says the company gave
the Chinese government access
to the journalist's e-mail...
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07.09.2005Sky Songs to take on iTunes
Satellite broadcaster Sky is to take on Apple's iTunes in the digital music marketplace, when it launches its new subscription-based music store
later this month. While users of the service will be limited to one album download a month, music streaming will be ad-free and unlimited. According
to the Press Association, the new service, called Sky Songs, will enable customers to download up to 1 album, or 10 songs, for a £6.49 a month
subscription fee. Although additional songs will cost 65p a track, the service will also allow ad-free streaming of music without any limitations.
The new service will also allow users to download songs for use on any MP3 player - something which iTunes does not allow.
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12.10.2009Sun's McNealy Proposes Merging ODF with Chinese Counterpart
In a trade conference convened
earlier this week by the
Chinese Ministry of Commerce,
Sun Microsystems Chairman
Scott McNealy suggested that
what he described as the
world's #2 and #3 office
document formats -
OpenDocument Format (ODF) and
the Chinese standard Uniform
Office Format (UOF) - could go
up against the #1 format from
Microsoft more effectively if
they were to be merged...
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19.04.2007Microsoft Tool Blocks Typo
Domains
Microsoft Research has
released a new tool as part of
its Strider project, which
reveals third party domains
that are being contacted in
the background of a Web site.
Called Strider URL Tracer, the
Internet Explorer add-on also
scans and blocks URLs that try
to capitalize on misspellings,
known as typo domains...
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10.04.2006Google marked by Chinese company for trademark violation
A Beijing company has taken Google's Chinese division to court over the search company's Mandarin name...
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14.12.2007Symantec says Chinese offer a success, withholds numbers
Symantec Corp. declared its
compensation offer for Chinese
users who saw their computers
damaged by a bad software
update a success Sunday, but
declined to say how many users
had accepted the deal.
Symantec ran into trouble
May 18, when the company
issued a faulty software
update for its Norton
antivirus software that
wrongly identified two system
files in the Simplified
Chinese edition of Windows XP
as malware, and quarantined
them. That blunder rendered an
estimated 50,000 Chinese PCs
unusable, Symantec said.
The incident provoked an
angry outcry from Chinese
users, who demanded
compensation for the damage
wrought on their systems by
Symantec. At least two users
filed lawsuits against
Symantec over damage done to
their PCs. ..
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16.07.2007China: We're Being Spied On Via Net
Just a week after it was revealed that the Chinese may have been behind a cyberattack on the Pentagon in June of this year, the Chinese are now
claiming "massive damage" from spying on its own computers...
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13.09.2007Yahoo Music to offer refunds, what about MSN?
Yahoo Music is offering refunds to anyone who bought songs from the service. Is it time for MSN Music follow Yahoo's lead?
Yahoo
announced last week that it would no longer issue authorization keys for the digital rights management, or DRM, software on its songs. This meant that
anyone who bought songs from the service would still be able to hear their songs through its service but would be unable to move them to other devices
or computers.
This did not play well with Web users. Now Yahoo Music plans to issue refunds and is trying to go one step further. If a
customer would prefer music over a refund, Yahoo is looking for a way to give the customer copies of the purchased songs in the DRM-free MP3 format,
according to a Yahoo representative.
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30.07.2008RBN Sets up Shop in China
The notorious Russian Business Network has suddenly picked up from its St. Petersburg digs and diversified, spreading its unwholesome activity to new
chunks of IP addresses, with RBN-like activity almost immediately appearing on newly registered blocks of Chinese and Taiwanese IP addresses,
according to security company Trend Micro. The Internet presence for the RBN—a Russian ISP thats infamous for hosting shady and criminal
businesses—blinked off at about 7 p.m. PST on Nov. 6, security researchers at Trend Micro reported the following day. For a few moments, Trend
Micro researchers imagined the Internet had become, even fleetingly, a tad safer. That hope didnt last long, however. Paul Ferguson, a network
architect for the company, told eWEEK that Trend Micro has noticed RBN-like activity on blocks of IP addresses that were registered in China and other
locations shortly before the RBN closed down the routes to its St. Petersburg addresses.
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10.11.2007Couple tried to name baby "@"
A Chinese couple tried to name
their baby "@," claiming the
character used in e-mail
addresses echoed their love
for the child, an official
trying to whip the national
language into line said
Thursday.
The unusual name stands
out especially in Chinese,
which has no alphabet and
instead uses tens of thousands
of multi-stroke characters to
represent words.
"The whole world
uses it to write e-mail, and
translated into Chinese it
means 'love him'," the
father explained, according to
the deputy chief of the State
Language Commission Li
Yuming.
While "@" is familiar to
Chinese e-mail users, they
often use the English word
"at" to sound it out --
which with a drawn out "T"
sounds something like "ai
ta," or "love him," to
Mandarin speakers...
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