World's Most Innovative Company Profile: Baidu

World's Most Innovative Company Profile: Baidu: "...beat Google to searches on mobile phones in China. His new innovative products span to Post Bar, for users to exchange queries and answers on message boards, and Baidu Knows, where individuals can collect virtual points for giving the best answers. In 2008, Li plans to enter the Chinese consumer e-commerce market in a duel with Jack Ma of Alibaba fame."

Altai Cowboy vs. Russia’s Space Agency - Kommersant Moscow

Altai Cowboy vs. Russia’s Space Agency - Kommersant Moscow: "Altai shepherd Boris Urmatov, to whose house yard a part of Proton-M rocket fell in early February, filed a suit against Russia’s space agency Roskosmos, seeking the moral damage indemnification from it, the country’s news agencies reported."

Baidu Networks With Omniture

Baidu Networks With Omniture: "If you think that Baidu is on a growth tear, Wall Street is looking for revenue and profits to more than double for Omniture in 2008."

China-made bullet train to link Beijing, Tianjin in Aug

China-made bullet train to link Beijing, Tianjin in Aug: "BEIJING -- The first China-made bullet train designed to run at 300 kilometers per hour has completed a test run and will be in service between Beijing and Tianjin in early August, a railway official said on Sunday."

To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You - New York Times

To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You - New York Times: "A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning more about people than ever from what they search for and do on the Internet"

Official Google Blog: About the Unity bandwidth consortium

Official Google Blog: About the Unity bandwidth consortium: "we are addressing this is by working with five other international companies to create a consortium. Collectively we just signed an agreement to build a new high-bandwidth subsea cable system linking the U.S. and Japan (more detail in the press release). This cable system, named Unity, will address increasing broadband demand by providing more capacity to sustain the unprecedented growth in data and Internet traffic between Asia and the U.S."

Huawei and Brightstar Launch Strategic Global Partnership for Terminal Products - Electronic Component & Product Information | ECNAsiamag.com

Huawei and Brightstar Launch Strategic Global Partnership for Terminal Products - Electronic Component & Product Information | ECNAsiamag.com: "Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd clinched a cooperation agreement for terminal products with Brightstar, a leader in customized distribution and supply chain solutions. Under this agreement, Huawei appoints Brightstar as an agent to boost the sale of its terminal products in key regions around the world. This deal covers the sale of Huawei's wireless terminal products in all leading regions worldwide. Brightstar will collaborate closely with Huawei to explore key markets, deliver Huawei products to leading mobile operators and help Huawei to promote its products in the marketplace.

In 2007, Huawei posted sales revenue of $2.6 billion in terminal products. The firm had shipped up to 40 million mobile terminals, making it a world-class provider of communications terminals."

Bloomberg.com: Asia

Bloomberg.com: Asia: "Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Baidu.com Inc., the operator of China's most-used Internet search site, rose the most in a month in New York trading on speculation the company may have acquired Web browser Maxthon."

Plastic bag ban forces closure of factory

Plastic bag ban forces closure of factory: "On Jan 9, the General Office of the State Council ordered a ban on the production, sale and use of ultra-thin bags (defined as less than 0.025 mm thick) from June 1. Also from that date, shops will be banned from providing free plastic bags to customers."

Mega departments to help improve efficiency

Mega departments to help improve efficiency: "The country's numerous energy and finance administrative bodies are likely to be merged into two mega departments in a bid to streamline the sectors, a top policy planner said Wednesday.

Coal mining, crude oil, electricity and renewable energy bodies will be unified under a large new energy department, according to Zheng Xinli, deputy chief of the Central Policy Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Similarly, the regulatory commissions on securities, banking and insurance that make up the financial regulation system will be merged into one mega department."

China not a threat to world energy

China not a threat to world energy

ACLU Sets New "Surveillance Society Clock" At Six Minutes Before Midnight | Privacy Digest

ACLU Sets New "Surveillance Society Clock" At Six Minutes Before Midnight | Privacy Digest

New Video Surveillance Cameras - High-Tech Law Enforcement Spying Programs - Popular Mechanics

New Video Surveillance Cameras - High-Tech Law Enforcement Spying Programs - Popular Mechanics: "Security expert Bruce Schneier says that it is naive to think that we can stop these technological advances, especially as they become more affordable and are hard-wired into everyday businesses. (I know of a local pizzeria that warns customers with a posted sign: 'Stop stealing the spice shakers! We know who you are, we have 24-hour surveillance!') But it is also reckless to let the advances proceed without a discussion of safeguards against privacy abuses. 'Society is fundamentally changing and we aren't having a conversation about it,' Schneier says. 'We are entering the era of wholesale surveillance.'"

Epoch Times | Picturesque Lijiang River Is Drying Up

Epoch Times | Picturesque Lijiang River Is Drying Up: "The water level of China's famous scenic attraction, the Lijiang River in Guilin, Guangxi Province, is at the lowest level in 50 years. Part of the river course has dried up so much that riverbed rocks have been exposed. The famous golden waterway, which attracts millions of native and foreign tourists every year, no longer exists.
Riverbed rocks are exposed in the dried-up area of the Lijiang River. (The Epoch Times)
Riverbed rocks are exposed in the dried-up area of the Lijiang River. (The Epoch Times)

Guilin City is experiencing a drought and has had almost no rain since the fall"

EC gives go ahead to Huawei-Symantec joint venture

EC gives go ahead to Huawei-Symantec joint venture: "The joint venture will develop security and storage appliances for telecommunications carriers, and will be based in Chengdu in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan. It will be 51 percent owned by Huawei and 49 percent by Symantec."

Backgrounder: Major PLA-related joint anti-terror military trainings_English_Xinhua

Backgrounder: Major PLA-related joint anti-terror military trainings_English_Xinhua: "KUNMING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Indian armies kicked off their first-ever joint anti-terrorism military training code-named 'Hand-in-Hand 2007' in southwest China Friday morning. Both armies dispatched about 100 ground troops for the training."

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[ Integrated mar.com ]: "'How do you pull off a social engineering attack? You go where the people are. Where are the people? They're at social Web sites,' Abrams said. 'Web 2.0 is simply a technology with more marketing than security designed into it.' But even if those sites were stronger on the security side, that would be 'no match for a gullible user,' he noted."

Output at Xinjiang oilfield up -- china.org.cn

Output at Xinjiang oilfield up -- china.org.cn: "China began exploiting oil resources in the Junggar Basin, in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in 1955 and drilled an oil well at Karamay the same year. The output at the Karamay field has been increasing steadily for 27 straight years since 1981."

Baidu Expands Patent Internet Searches In China - ChinaCSR.com - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) News and Information for China

Baidu Expands Patent Internet Searches In China - ChinaCSR.com - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) News and Information for China: "Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com has announced expansion of its agreement with the China Patent Information Center of the State Intellectual Property Office to supply authoritative and professional patent searching services for netizens, starting on January 1, 2008."

The Associated Press: New 'Great Game' for Central Asia Riches

The Associated Press: New 'Great Game' for Central Asia Riches: "Russia sees Central Asia as an inheritance from its imperial Czarist and Communist past. For China, with its appetite for raw materials and its awakening as a world power, Central Asia is the Wild West: a land of opportunity, a reservoir of resources and a corridor to the Middle East's oil fields and Europe's wealthy shopping districts."