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China Weather Control

Sure you could carry an umbrella if it rains but if you are China, you have a major problem... You make the umbrellas for the world but you are so busy shipping the umbrellas to other countries that you...

Posted on March 28, 2008 6:55 AM

Flood us With New Careers, not Money

As most people looking for technical talent know, in the U.S. there is full employment in the tech space. In addition, it is very difficult to hire foreign tech workers as the government makes workers and employers jump through hoops...

Posted on March 2, 2008 9:47 AM

Bain and Huawei Resubmit Bid

Bain and Huawei are changing their bid for 3COM in a manner that does not change the financial elements of the deal but it minimizes Huawei's access to certain Ethernet technologies. Last week, the parties pulled their application with the...

Posted on February 29, 2008 3:34 PM

400,000 iPhones Found in China

One wonders what need China Mobile has for revenue sharing agreements with Apple when it seems iPhones are streaming into China faster than Walmart purchase orders. In fact, analysts estimate 400k iPhones entered China last year alone! This is a...

Posted on February 20, 2008 7:39 AM

China and the Busy Weekend

It has been a busy weekend so far and it is about half-way over and I didn’t even get a chance to blog. Believe it or not there hasn’t been too much blog-worthy material and writing for the sake of...

Posted on November 17, 2007 5:47 PM

I am Gphone, You are Not

Tom Keating has an interesting blog post about the continuation of the gPhone saga. By the way, is it Gphone? gphone? or gPhone? I don’t know. For those of you who are interested in looking at what this phone may...

Posted on November 2, 2007 3:09 PM

3Com and Digium News

If you haven’t been watching lately there has been lots of activity in the IP PBX and networking space from 3Com and Digium. Here is a recap.   3Com was recently purchased and a minority investor was China’s Huawei....

Posted on October 2, 2007 9:11 AM

3COM Sold

The Wall Street Journal reported that 3COM will be acquired by Bain Capital and Huawei Technologies. TMC’s Greg Galitzine has a call into 3COM for comments but what we know so far is the transaction is at $5+/share meaning more...

Posted on September 28, 2007 9:44 AM

China and Google

Most articles about China and Google focus on how the search company is censoring its content for the benefit of the Chinese government. This article however has nothing to do with this situation. Instead I will be contrasting the needs...

Posted on June 4, 2007 4:48 PM

Dragons at Your Door

How Chinese Cost Innovation is Disrupting Global Competition I just received Dragons at Your Door from the Harvard Business School Press and I was going to put it on the bookshelf but for some reason I started to skim it....

Posted on May 30, 2007 8:16 AM

Huawei

I recently had a meeting with Huawei executives and they have grand plans. The company is a leading Chinese equipment provider and moreover has a surprisingly large suite of products ranging from EVDO cards for laptops to WiMAX and...

Posted on April 18, 2007 7:28 AM

Chinese Pornography

China is really cracking down on pornography. I had no idea it was even considered a problem in the country. An AP story shows some valuable insight on how the country is dealing with what they see as a growing...

Posted on April 15, 2007 10:09 AM

Cisco Invest $700M in China

Cisco Systems plans on sponsoring 40 Chinese companies with a venture fund worth a total of $700 million. Investment in China is not new but this move could have implications as to where tomorrow’s technology leaders will come from. This...

Posted on April 13, 2007 5:30 PM

US Trains Fall Behind

Perhaps a better headline for this blog entry is “US Trains Fall Further behind.” I was just reading an article discussing a high-speed train developed in France for the Chinese market. This train goes 357.2 MPH and this is short...

Posted on April 3, 2007 11:06 AM

Skype Clone

Generally when software reaches one tenth the popularity level of Skype many programmers try to hack it, break it, and do other things that can make Skype user’s lives difficult and make a name for themselves. In this case though...

Posted on October 8, 2006 1:57 PM

Restaurants in San Francisco

After my speech today I had a conference call and then we were off to dinner. Now San Francisco can be surprisingly hilly -- especially China Town which was a stone's throw from the conference. The people here must be...

Posted on May 11, 2006 1:02 AM

China Censors Skype

If you’re a Chinese web surfer using Skype you may notice that when you chat about certain things the person responding may not respond correctly. The reason? Not surprisingly China is filtering Skype user’s messages.The Financial Times reported that Skype...

Posted on April 25, 2006 7:11 AM

Yahoo and China

It is unclear if Yahoo! really did help convict this Chinese activist but what can Yahoo! do – It has to obey laws in China like it does in every other country. I hope President Bush speaks to China’s president...

Posted on April 20, 2006 1:39 PM

China Blog News

There are 15 million blogs in China and the momentum doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Blogging software developer Six Apart has reached a partnership with Chinese blog company Bokee to localize and distribute Movable Type, Six Apart's web publishing...

Posted on March 23, 2006 9:30 AM

China Grants VoIP License

Forbes reports that China may be getting on the VoIP bandwagon soon. Expect the company to develop a technological platform for VoIP by March 20 and release VoIP regulations around May.One wonders if this is good or bad new for...

Posted on March 9, 2006 9:23 AM

China Censorship

The US government has concerns about critical servers being housed in China as the Chinese government could potentially gain access to information on their shores. In addition the US government is concerned about human rights in China and elsewhere.Rep. Chris...

Posted on February 13, 2006 9:32 AM

New Internets

Many countries are looking for alternatives to a world where they are forced to use technology that is controlled in some way by the US government. A while back, Europeans decided to begin the launch of a multi-billion dollar GPS...

Posted on January 20, 2006 8:46 AM

US Cybersecurity

Here is an overview of the state of US cybersecurity. I am pretty surprised and how many alleged state-sponsored attacks there are. Articles like this make you realize that security on the Internet will only grow in importance over time....

Posted on December 12, 2005 8:54 AM

China Skype News

The latest news on Skype in China is that Niklas Zennstrom is negotiating with China Telecom and China Netcom to allow SkypeOut services in China. This comes on the heels of the Tom Online joint venture the company inked. The...

Posted on November 21, 2005 10:44 AM