VentureBeat:
The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has set out to conduct a massive clean up of what it claims on its website are problems with ”the intermingling of good and bad content,” “the large quantity of imported music without approval,” plus copyright violations and a ”lack of supervision and regulat (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is facing a setback in its plans to build market share and revenue in Asia: Alibaba Group, which runs Yahoo China and is 39 percent-owned by Yahoo, is separating classified listings business Koubei.com from Yahoo China and adding it to its own retail site Taobao.com, as WSJ.com reports. Alibaba is slimmin (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Duke Energy is having a big day for deals. Earlier today, it announced its contract with Echelon to deploy up to 1.5 million smart meters across its service area. Now, it’s also revealed plans to join forces with the Huaneng Group in China to research and take steps toward capturing more carbon emitted from coal-fired power (Read More)
VentureBeat:
There are tens of millions of cell phones around the world that can get TV reception, thanks to Telegent Systems. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip design company is announcing today that four more Latin American cell phone companies have launched phones with Telegent’s chips in them.Mobile TV is a phenomenon that has taken (Read More)
mashable:
In a very unexpected move, the Chinese authorities have indefinitely postponed their order that all PCs sold in the country must come with software, called Green Dam Youth Escort, that blocks certain websites. According to Reuters, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, who had previously organized a protest against the Gre (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The 2012 London Olympics will be the most wired yet but, true to its modest ambitions relative to Beijing, will focus on mass viewer appeal over cutting-edge online media, organisers say.“We don’t necessarily see this as, first and foremost, an opportunity to innovate,” Alex Balfour, new media head for the Olympic games org (Read More)
mashable:
From July 1st and onwards, all PCs sold in China must be shipped with an internet filtering program called Green Dam. This application, besides being a possible security risk, is supposed to protect the people of China from online pornography, but it could also be used to monitor their online activities and block other, non (Read More)
Submitted by Gleonhard
from YouTube:
A mobile campaign we did in China for burton. Try it for yourselfs. send a small video clip to burton@snobile.com.cn and wait for its return. (Read More)
paidContent.org:
While Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has been talking up TV Everywhere, NBC quietly has been planning once again to limit live broadband viewing of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver to pay TV subscribers—but with tougher authentication. Live streaming will be offered to cable, satellite and telecom multichannel subscr (Read More)
Mashable!:
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.Creating the perfect resume is not easy. Luckily, there are a number of online resources dedicated to helping you create outstanding traditional and social media re (Read More)
Mashable!:
As 2008 draws to a close, we thought we’d take a look back at some of Mashable’s most popular stories. These aren’t necessarily the most important pieces of news we reported this year, but simply the posts drawing the most attention from our readers. Perhaps indicative of the influence that social media is having on mains (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
NYTimes.com is being blocked in China, even as some news sites have had recent restrictions lifted, IHT reported. A number of news sites belonging to the BBC, Voice of America and Asiaweek had restrictions lifted by Friday after being blocked a few days earlier. Asked why NYTimes.com is being blocked, Chinese government off (Read More)
Submitted by Osogrande7:
2008 has been a big year for Twitter. The service once known for being unreliable has since stabilized and grown increasingly popular, branching beyond the tech community and into the mainstream.Twitter has also evolved into a medium for breaking national and international news, oftentimes before major media outlets. From n (Read More)
Engadget:
Europe still isn't the place to be for limitless HD content, but London in particular could be a 3D extravaganza come 2012. The host city for the next Summer Olympics may be coming to your living room like never before, as Brian Lenz, head of product design and innovation at Sky, proclaimed that "there is a very good chance (Read More)