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Chinese authorities plan to give Nokia a license to provide online mapping services in China, making it the first foreign company to get such approval. To avoid State secrets being disclosed and uncertified maps published online, China has launched a regulation requiring all companies providing online maps and location services in China to apply for approval. The announcement may open doors for other foreign applicants such as Google and Microsoft…
A survey has found that the internet users in South China’s Guangdong province are getting younger, raising concerns in the number of young web addicts. The survey found 80 percent of the 1,000 primary and high school students polled started surfing the Internet before they turned 10. About 22% of the Chinese children like to play online games when they surf the net, the rest followed by consulting data, chatting with cyber friends, watching online video, and of couse doing homework. With the popularization of computers and network technologies, Guangdong is now witnessing a new wave of Internet users.
Thanks to the rapid development and growing popularity of the Internet, network media in China is playing a larger role in expressing public opinions and in the distribution of information about major news events. According to some journalism research, network media has showed maturation and successfully played its role when covering some of the important news event in China, and they are challenging the mainstream media. We just hope that the Chinese government won’t take too much censorship action on those network media. Majority of the Chinese don’t use facebook and twitter, because both of the services are behind the GFW, they are using some others local similar service, known as ‘开心网‘(Happy site) and ‘新浪微博‘(Sina microblog). You can check out more info here, and here. [Xinhua]
Few days ago, Google China homepage is added with new features while renewing its Chinese Internet Content Provider license, and now we get to hear some words from Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt — he expects China to renew the company’s newly revised application to deliver Web services in the country.
UPDATE: China has renewed Google’s ICP license officially !!!
This is not yet to be confirmed. Google has officially submitted its renewal application of ICP license to the Chinese government on the day (Wednesday, June 30th) its license expires. Surprisingly, a Chinese netizen today found out that the page of google.cn and g.cn have got a new ICP license, “ICP Certificate B2-20070004″. Moreover, three new services are added on the homepage — music, translation and shopping. However, the google.cn site still acts as a dummy page…
UPDATE: An email message from Google press team.
UPDATE 2: Email screen capture.
The war between Google and China is not finished yet. Apparently, the Chinese government is not happy with the redirect to Google.hk when visitors accessing Google.cn. While Google is facing its license expiration problem that will affect its operation in China, Google has now starting hosting some content on Chinese servers, and plans to end the redirect in the next couple of days.
Looks like the Chinese government has unblocked Google’s Blogger and Picasa Web. According to well-known Chinese blogger William Long, he found out that the domains, blogger.com and blogspot.com, can be accessed through the network in Shenzhen. Also, picasaweb.google.com is accessible too. However, if you are linking from the search results on Yahoo search engine, it’s still blocked for access. A few Chinese netizens have successfully accessed these three big domains while some of them are still unable to visit…
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