Posts Tagged ‘statistics’

China To Resume Personal Website Domain Name Registrations

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued to domain name registrars a circular which asks further work to be done to verify the registration information of websites in the coming weeks.
MIIT issued a circular and initiated a government-led crackdown on pornographic content in December 2009 when it asked domain name service providers to [...]


Initiative Launched For Parents To Supervise Online Games In China

According to ifeng.com, an initiative has been launched in China to enable parents to supervise computer games that their children play.
The first batch of six online game operators who joined the initiative are Wanmei.com, Tencent, Shanda, Netease, Changyou and Giant Interactive. As initiators of the self-discipline program, the parties will arrange a special webpage on [...]


APAC Teams With Netcraft To Fight Phishing Websites In China

The Anti-Phishing Alliance of China has decided to cooperate with the international network security company Netcraft to jointly fight phishing and hacking websites in China.
Statistics published at the annual conference of APAC show that by October 22, 2009, a total of 8,342 phishing websites had been punished and none of these websites had any complaints [...]


Pen Frustration: Chinese Writers Furious Over Google’s Copyright Agenda

Chinawriter.com.cn has posted a message allegedly from Google which states that the American search engine will compensate Chinese writers USD60 for each book of each writer who agrees to allow Google to use the book online.
This payment policy has angered many Chinese writers, who have filled online forums with statements about Google’s hegemonic behavior.
The search [...]


China Will Initiate Online Games Publication Program While Discouraging Foreign Competition

Sun Shoushan, deputy director of General Administration of Press and Publication, has confirmed with local media that GAPP will initiate a program this year on green online game publication to guide the development of the online game industry.
Sun said that GAPP would conduct research to construct a measure for the program which may be carried [...]


China Implements Stricter Management Of Virtual Currency

China’s Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Commerce have jointly focused on the management of virtual money for online games with a new regulation which states that virtual currency should not be used in trade of real goods and services.
According to the regulation, the enhanced management of online games focuses on four aspects: the issuers [...]


Hong Kong Earns Highest Email Spam Honor

Technology security company Symantec says Hong Kong received the highest level of spam of any region or country in the world as the company published its latest report.
The May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report highlights that spam experienced a further worldwide increase of 5.1% since last month, reaching heights of 90.4%. Email spam levels in Hong [...]


Plug In, Drop Out: Guidelines In China Issued To Help Prevent Internet Addiction

Two new guidelines have been issued in China to assist parents in working with their children to avoid the horrible affliction of Internet addiction.
The aptly named Chinese Teenager Mental Growth Base of the General Hospital of Beijing Military Area Command of Chinese PLA and the China Youth Association for Internet Development have jointly launched two [...]


CNNIC: Many Of China’s 55.5 Million Online Game Players Have No Money!

According to the latest report on Chinese online game users published by the China Internet Network Information Center, the number of online game players in China has reached 55.5 million, but many are considered low-end players.
The surveyed targets of this report were massively multiplayer online role-playing game users who played the games at least once [...]


China Unicom WCDMA Tender Result Revealed

According to an insider quoted by local Chinese media, the result for China Unicom’s WCDMA tender has been revealed, though the detailed statistics are currently not available.