Welcome to the internet addicts camp

Posted Aug 9th 2007 2:30PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Internet

The internet, as you know, is a great place to turn to for all kinds of information and entertainment. Some of us live on it for 8 or more hours a day, others spend way too much time on it and never leave their virtual space. Congratulations, you are officially addicted, please join the internet addict's camp.

The Chinese government has realized the addiction and has a solution, Internet Addicts Camp. With 2.6 million Chinese kids under the age of 18 considered addicts this new kind of summer camp is aimed at 14-22 year olds and actually teaches them to go outside, ride bikes, and enjoy life off of the internet while covering depression issues, non interaction, and panic attacks.

U.S. Internet dominance fading fast

Posted Jul 26th 2007 8:30PM by Grant Robertson
Filed under: Business, Internet, News

Oh the heady days when everything cool on the internet came from one of the 50 states. Those days are gone, but the U.S. has managed to maintain dominance among the ruling class of the Internet nevertheless, however, those days may be fading as well.

Within a few years, China's population of Internet users will outnumber those in the U.S., changing the dominant language and, according to the Pew Internet Trust and American Life project, could cause significant tensions in "cyberspace".

LiveScience reports on the potential changes, "The difference between Chinese and Western approaches to the Internet could create additional sore points over human rights and problems with restrictions on non-Chinese companies." Citing the significant difference between monitoring and policing of content between U.S. and Chinese authorities, the report paints a picture of possible doom and gloom.

All hope isn't lost however. Skeptics point out that a combined English speaking force of North American and European users is likely to trump the Chinese presence for some time to come.

Google says sorry to Sohu for using their software

Posted Apr 9th 2007 12:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Internet, Utilities, Google

Google has a little problem in China lately. It seems as though some software developed by a rival company ended up in a recently released Chinese software tool that Google 'developed'.

Google apologized once they were called out for after they found out about Sohu's software being inside of their Pinyin Input Method Editor. For their part, Google said that Sohu's software it was used during development of the application and that they utilized non-Google database resources to build the tool, but didn't say how they obtained the database used.

Since Google uncovered the issue, they have released a new version on Sunday that uses a new dictionary. Google Pinyin is a piece of free Google software that allows users to input Chinese characters using the alphabet keyboard without using the operating systems built in inputting system.

[via InfoWorld]

Hong Kong likes Windows Vista

Posted Feb 28th 2007 2:00PM by David Chartier
Filed under: News, Windows, Microsoft

Sure, Vista sales might not be the greatest so far, and Microsoft has already made the bizarre announcement of "Vienna" to follow in 2009, but things aren't all bad for Microsoft's bouncing baby OS. While SFGate reports on Microsoft's efforts to squash rampant piracy in China, ButterBoom has some choice quotes from a South China Morning Post report that says Vista says are doing pretty darn well in Hong Kong. To quote Adam Anger, director of Microsoft's Hong Kong business marketing organization:

"Some retail shops have told us that they have been selling 30 times more than what they usually sell, especially during the launch weekend on February 3 and 4. Some even said that their sales were comparable to high-selling holiday seasons like Christmas."

However, in this blogger's opinion, those numbers might be somewhat skewed both from Microsoft's efforts to 'inspire' Chinese citizens away from their pirating ways, as well as the fact that Windows XP has been around long enough for nearly everyone who wants a copy to get one - legitimately or otherwise.

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