Chinese portal site qq.com has releasednews(english translation) that Google in China is back in business. Despite Google reportedly denying it had given staff a holiday, the QQ report says that staff had indeed been given a break but today would be heading back to work. Google says staff were given a holiday last week as the company boosted security of its networks after complaining its Web site had been attacked by hackers....
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China recently published a paper indicating they’ve created a quantum computer that’s one million times faster than Google’s Sycamore machine. According to a report from theGlobal Times, the Chinese system “is 10 million times faster than the current fastest supercomputer and its calculation complexity is more than 1 million times higher than Google’s Sycamore processor.” File under:Huge, if true. Let’s be up front here, I’m not a quantum physicist....
Reutersreports that an official Chinese newspaper labeled Google as a “political tool vilifying the Chinese government,” andsent a warningthat the serious allegations against China could hurt the U.S. Internet company’s business. The warning appeared in the overseas edition of the People’s Daily, the leading newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party, which claims that Google is “deliberately pandering to negative Western perceptions of China, strongly hinting that the hacking attacks were the work of the Chinese government....
China has announced the approval of a new State Internet Information Office to spearhead the supervision of the Chinese internet, which the country identifies as both a potential gold mine and a political threat. We all know what that means — tighter Internet controls. TheGreat Firewall of Chinais already one tough nut to crack but people find ways to circumvent it using virtual private networks (VPNs). China intends to raise the barricades even higher by assigning an agency to collaborate with different organizations for the supervision and filtering of the Internet, which doesn’t come as a surprise given that Chinese authorities havelong been worriedthat the internet could become a threatening channel for politically unacceptable ideas and images....
China has become the first country to reach the 900 million mobile phone user milestone after amassing about 11 million mobile phone users in April alone, according to areportby the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The mobile phone adoption rate in China has been soaring for several years. The country is currently 100 million subscribers short in hitting the highly coveted one billion mark and if it continues to gather new subscribers at the same pace, it could very well be achieved it in less than 10 months....
