Cool G108, the Watch Phone in a Clamshell Body
	Cool G108 is one of the latest devices to come from China, and while you probably expect it to be a copy of an already existing product, as many Chinese gadgets are, the G108 is a pretty original creation. The device combines a cell phone and a watch into a small case – which is ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acupuncture: 4 Millennia of Chinese Efficiency
	If you want to avoid traditional medicine and the inherent mounds of drugs, this is an alternative. Acupuncture refers to a group of techniques, employing very thin, small needles introduced in some precise body parts for achieving a therapeutic answer. Its efficiency seems to be given by the fact that it causes th ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 09:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Giant Cell Phone Weighs 22 Kilograms
	Slim and lightweight are definitely nice qualities for mobile phones, but the new king of handsets is far from having these attributes, and has all the chances to be designated the biggest functional cell phone in the world. A Mr. Tan, resident of Songyuan, China, worked about half a year to create a huge handset, based on its normal mobile phone, reports ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Wants China, China Bans Google Earth
	China has always been somehow a prohibited land for Google although the search engine provider has struggled to evolve in the market by acquiring new companies, releasing new Chinese flavors of its products or signing deals with the local players. However, it always encountered problems, no matter if we're talking about fake agents who pretended to be hired by Google or about the Baidu reply which has always been pretty toug ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This Is Official: World's Shortest Man
	Now, it is official: the world's shortest man is a Chinese: the 20-year-old He Pingping. The man is 73 cm (2.4 feet) tall and he is a native of Huade county, Wulanchabu city (in Inner Mongolia province). His father, He Yun, said that, at birth, he had been only the size of an adult's palm. The parents of He are both of normal height. He has two sisters of normal height who are both married now. He Pingping suffers ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth – An Illegal Mapping Service Threatening the National Security
	The Mountain View-based company, Google, is now encountering new problems regarding the imagery provided by Google Earth, as the Chinese authorities seem to be ready to ban lots of mapping services including Google’s. What’s interesting is that the Chinese officials labeled these solutions as ‘illegal’ because they show sensitive information which should be hidden from the public eye. According to an article published in China Daily, th ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Sea Silk Road
	Silk, the highly sought-for item in the ancient Rome, was brought from China by caravans that had to cross thousands of kilometers of deserts, rough terrain and abrupt mountains. To all these, the frequent attacks of the bandits added, in the wild passes of the mountains, on the road whose end was on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. No wonder people looked after a "Sea Silk Road". Even so, the dangers were not eliminat ... [read more >>]
	25 March 2008, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Save Darfur Coalition’s Site Hacked from China
	The Save Darfur Coalition is a non-profit group created to draw attention to the ongoing genocide caused by civil war in western Sudan’s Darfur region. Relying on the strong commercial agreements between China and Sudan, the group is trying to get the Asian country to pressure Sudan’s government into stopping the killing, but so far it has been unsuccessful. Furthermore, they have found their web site hacked and an unauthorized e ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pro-Tibetan Aimed Cyberattacks
	People supporting the Tibetan cause have more to worry about than Chinese censorship and retaliation, there’s a new wave of attacks aimed at them and in many aspects it’s far more dangerous. The human rights groups that are sympathetic to the anti-Chinese protesters are targeted by cybercriminals, and the messages are all designed in such a way that anti-virus tools will not detect them as being malicious. The emails all have ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Online Text Message Spam under Probe
	Spam has followed the natural evolution course of advertising. First designed only for computers, now, as the mobile ads continue to increase in importance, the unwanted messages have ported to the handheld devices in a flash. What better place to target with such an attack than the biggest mobile communications market in the world, China. The scandal currently underway has been dubbed "Text-message Gate" by the Chin ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell Starts the Chinese, Indian Markets Offensive
	System vendor Dell is currently pitching at distributing its PC offerings on the Chinese and Indian markets. According to the company's CEO and founder Michael Dell, the company experiences high demand on the Asian markets. More and more computer manufacturers are designing their products for the Chinese market. Dell and Lenovo are only a few of the PC vendors that introduced low-cost computers targeted at the rural and e ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 21:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Kicks Tibet News off Search
	Compromise is all this life is about for most people. Meeting your better half mid-way in every crisis that might result in tension between you two is the way to resolve everything, and the same goes for any negotiations being held between two companies, when one doesn’t have the upper hand. There’s only one area where compromise should never be an option, and that is the freedom of speech. China has yet to learn that lesson, and ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell to Spend $29 Billion in Components on China Market
	System integrator Dell has announced that the company intends to buy $23 billion of components from China this year, and other $29 billion in 2009. According to the company, switching supply markets will help Dell to keep down on raw materials spendings. The company broke the news during the celebration of the 10th year of operations in China. China is one of the favorite supply markets worldwide, given the fact that China ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Digimon MMO in the Making
	Earlier in the day we talked about the rise of the Chinese MMO market and about how the value of business conducted in that market was going to reach 3 billion dollars by 2010. Now we're going to talk about how MMOs developed on Eastern principles have a shot at gett ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No More Swearing Online, Says University
	Like I reported earlier, censorship is so present in China before the Olympic Games, almost like it was running for gold. Now, it hits everywhere that has something, even remotely, to do with more people than, say, one. The forums are starting to feel the cold, chilly ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 11:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Army of Terracotta Soldiers
	In 1974, while digging for a well, the Chinese farmers from a village in the Shaanxi province discovered several terracotta statues. They were the first of thousands of statue-soldiers of an army buried in the tomb of the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang, who died 2,200 years ago. The 8,099 soldiers, 300 horses and 200 chariots guard the tomb of the emperor. The combatants were placed in 40 lines, like in a parade, on a length of 200 m (66 ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 09:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

China Blocks Google and YouTube Again!
	Tired of reading about the Chinese government censoring the media and then going halfway for the compromise? Well, you’re not going to enjoy knowing that it happened again, and in a period that was supposed to show the world that all is not as bad as dissidents make is sound like. The first pointer that the government was set on lowering its standards, at least for the period of time prior to the Olympic Games, was given when, in ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

1-year of Stand-by Time Offered by a Chinese Phone
	A recently spotted mobile phone manufactured in China claims to provide no less than 365 days of stand-by time. Which, yes, means one whole year. The handset can apparently do this thanks to the fact that it packs a powerful 16800 mAh battery. Compared to the batteries that most of today's mobile phones have – around 1000 mAh – this is indeed something that is worth to be mentioned. It even makes ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2008, 07:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

eBay Points Fingers at Romania’s Lack of Interest in Cybercrime
	After seeing out how several warnings sent to a number of countries that have been the most productive in phishing attacks hit a brick wall, eBay burst and warned that there must be something more that can be done to stop fraudsters from targeting auction sites. Alongside Romania, which was nominated as having the biggest problem, were China and Russia, all three the source of the majority of the scams aimed at eBay users for per ... [read more >>]
	11 March 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pentagon Worried About Chinese Hackers
	Every year, the annual report on China’s military power that the Pentagon presents before the U.S. Congress is met with criticism by the Asian country, and every year the US say that they are worried by the advancement level the rival power has achieved. That’s the backbone of what has been going on, the meat on the bones is, however, changed every year with various details. China gets upset because it is portrayed as a war-loving count ... [read more >>]
	10 March 2008, 12:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dumped Chinese Woman Burns 400 Cell Phones
	What reason(s) do you think would someone have to set on fire hundreds of mobile phones? There aren't many reasonable ones that you can think of, right? Well, a woman from China burned more than 400 handsets because she was dumped by her husband. The couple was living in ... [read more >>]
	10 March 2008, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mobile Users – Ransomware Trojan Victims
	Symbian Series 60 owners in China are facing a rather disturbing problem right now, that of the Kiazha-A Trojan, that holds the phone for ransom, according to reports from McAfee. It is a component of a sophisticated mobile malware bundle, dubbed MultiDropper-CR, that infects other devices via Bluetooth or corrupted MMS messages. The message owners of the S60 are greeted with a message that is roughly translated as "Warni ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 12:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Apple's iPhone Will Come to China. Or It Won't. Or It Will
	At the beginning of 2008, after many rumors and speculations, China Mobile said its negotiations with Apple to bring the iPhone in China had been called off. This although Apple never mentioned anything about having official discussions with the Chinese carrier ( ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! VS Chinese Dissidents Part 2
	If you remember the very publicized lawsuit of last November, when Yahoo! was pointed fingers at for handing access to email, email records and user identification information over to the Chinese authorities, this might feel like a deja-vu altogether. The first lawsuit was settled out of court with the plaintiffs, the imprisoned dissident’s family. Li Zheng, Zheng Cunzhu and Guo Quan filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Norther ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 06:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chang'e 1 Followed By Chang'e 2 in 2009
	Following the successful launch of the Chang'e 1, the first Chinese lunar orbiter, Chang'e 2 is supposed to launch in the course of next year, only to become the second probe in the Chang'e program. The third, Chang'e 3, will most likely be a robotic lander that is expected to launch somewhere around 2011. After the launch on 24th of October 2007, the short trip to the Moon and an accusation of forgery, the Ch ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Another IM Service Emerging
	The list of Internet companies that operate search engines and have gone for the instant messaging approach to communication just added Chinese-based Baidu. The fourth biggest search engine in the world is no meaningless addition to the above mentioned array, it will provide the Chinese with something specifically tailored to match their tastes. Testing of ‘Baidu Hi’ has already been started internally, since last Friday. At t ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2008, 16:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

In China, Rain Comes When Beijing Says So!
	When the rain dance fails, turn to cloud seeding, say the Chinese officials. With the imminent approach of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is seriously taking into consideration the use of technology to clear pollution in the city and inhibit the rain from falling from the sky when it is not required, which basically means total weather control, a feat of engineering never attempted before by man. According to international reports, China has i ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Baidu Cornered in New Piracy Suit
	Baidu has been a target ever since it emerged as China’s number one search engine. Crawling roughly everything, it was inevitable to be involved some way or the other in lawsuits caused by users uploading and linking to pirated software and entertainment content. So far, it was not involved this year in any scandal regarding programs and applications, but judging by the wave of lawsuits filed against it for the other type of content, it wo ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Woman with Feet Facing Backwards
	Disability or the secret for a high velocity? This Chinese waitress has not accepted a disability pension even if she was born with feet facing the other side. Wang Fang, 27, is a resident of Chongqing (western China) and says she has been able to live a normal life despite her condition, and she is perfectly capable of accomplishing her job duties. "I can run faster than most of my friends and have a regular job as ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

See the Olympics on MySpace
	The Censor-full China Central Television (CCTV) will allow two China-based web sites to offer streaming broadcasts of the Olympic events. Originally, under the January introduced Internet censorship plan, every site that wasn’t government-owned would be blocked, thus making streaming impossible. MySpace China and Tudou.com were chosen by CCTV, the Beijing Olympics’ official Internet and mobile phone broadcaster because of thei ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Chinese Stone Forest
	The most spectacular calcareous relief in the world could be considered the Chinese Stone Forest. The Stone Forest National Park of Shilin-Lunan (Yunnan) is located in the Lunan Yu Autonomous County, 126 km (79 mi) southeast of Kunming, at altitudes of 1,700-2,000 m. It has an area of over 340 square km (135 square mi) but, together with the forests and localities, the surface of the National Park goes to 400 square km (160 squar ... [read more >>]
	26 February 2008, 08:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Russia, Malware Producing Demon
	Just like Google and Yahoo compete for search dominance, and Iran and Iraq for higher oil reserves, the malware producing field is also much disputed. China, former developer and producer extraordinaire has bent its head in front of Russia, new reigning champ, according to metrics from security software producer PC Tools. The report, set to be released tomorrow in full, has the former Soviet country accounting for 27.9 percent ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chinese Baidu Censored for ‘Naughty’ Photos
	Baidu.com owns the Chinese search engine market with dominance, very much like Google does in the United States. And, just like Google oversees, it too has some problems with the content it circulates around the Internet. While the Mountain View-based company is currently undergoing a change in policy and thinking about implementing some serious child protection against pornography rules, Baidu got in trouble because of an adult. ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 10:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Than 400,000 iPhones Unlocked in China
	Apple's iPhone, one of the most influential mobile devices from the recent years, has not been officially released yet in China and there are high chances that it will never be. However, according to In-Stat, a global market researc ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google LEGO Strikes Back
	The story with Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Lego goes way back into their Stanford days, when they had a thing for the plastic bricks. They’ve put together, over the years a programmable plotter (Page) and even hard drive enclosure for drives of 4 and 10 GB, encased in ‘faux Duplos’. Larry once said that "Legos and other lesser construction toys have been quite important to me. I have constructed numerous amazing contrapti ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 03:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Things About the Chinese People and Civilization
	1. The Han Chinese form the largest ethnic group in the world, 14 % of the planet's population. The cradle of the Chinese civilization was the valley of Huang He (Yellow River). The capital of three great Chinese dynasties: Chu (1,122-256 BC), Han (206 BC-220 AD) and Tang (618-906), was located in the city of Jinan, on the banks of Huang He, in the province of Shaanxi; then, under the dynasties of Yuang, Ming and Ching, Beijing turned ... [read more >>]
	13 February 2008, 11:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Short History of the Paper
	Paper is something evanescent and durable at the same time. It is a milestone for the human civilization in the last two millennia. From high quality to ordinary packing paper, toilet paper, pampers, carnival paper clothes or printing paper, all comes from a Chinese idea. People always sought for ideal surfaces for recording their thoughts, from cave walls to bones (in ancient China), skin scrolls (ancient Greeks), mulberry bark ... [read more >>]
	13 February 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

China Cracks Down on Internet and Games
	All the news coming from the Western world could make somebody completely oblivious about what’s going on in the Far East, where communism hasn’t burst its bubble yet. Censoring video sites, sweeping Internet cafes and hunting down web sites and computer markets for possible dangerously violent games just warm the Chinese people to their government. In all fairness, their intentions are good. The authorities are only trying t ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 06:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Presents Crackers to Its AdSense Results
	Searching for anything related to the Chinese new year on the U.S. or China Google homepages will present you with a surprisingly lively display of colors in the traditional and boringly dull white background and blue links display that we’ve grown accustomed to. There’s a new color, red, and some new shapes! Oh, how I longed for some shapes other than rectangles and thumbnails for videos. All jokes aside, Google has decided t ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 12:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

China’s Video Censorship Rules, Not as Tough as Advertised
	It’s not as red and marked with the hammer and sickle as you might have thought, but it also wouldn’t win the "people living there’s award" when it comes to freedom of speech. It’s an ongoing cha-cha dance, with one making a move (the government) and if the reply is moderately strong, it will back up a little and let the other (the people) have their way to a certain extent. The laws that were announced early January and [ADM ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 08:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Amid Troubled Times, Google Turns to Chinese Market
	Just yesterday, news about three of the big four in the music industry announced that they have teamed up against Chinese search engine dominator Baidu, which links to sites that offer free pirated music downloads. Google doesn’t seem to care, or perhaps it just wanted to get a breath of fresh air from the Yahoo! problem it is facing back home, in the United States. Apparently, an unnamed source of Reuters said, the Mountain V ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lenovo Quits the Mobile Business
	Lenovo, the giant Chinese electronics manufacturer mainly known for producing desktop PCs and laptops, announced it will quit the mobile phone industry and sell its mobile division for $100 million to Legend Holdings Ltd., one of its main ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 15:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did the Compass Appear?
	The magnetic properties of the matter have been observed by people even from Antiquity. The words "magnetism" and "magnet" seems to come from the (by then) Greek region of Magnesia (now in western Turkey) or from the city of Magnessa in the same region, around which "magnetic stones" (magnetite deposits) were found, as Titus Lucretius Carus sustained. Plinius said the words come from the shepherd Mag ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Biggest Real Time Porn Site Closed by Authorities
	As a part of a campaign that saw so far the shutting down of 44,000 (no typo there) websites and the arrest of 868 people last year, Reuters reports the closing of the largest real time porn site based in China. The crusade against online pornography and "unhealthy" web content was initiated after president Hu Jintao railed down the content available on the Internet, claiming to be a danger to social stability. The &quo ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 12:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Some Kissing Leaked on YouTube Attracts Lawsuit
	Imagine how it would be like if one of your most tender moments was to be videotaped and later uploaded to YouTube for everybody to see. Not such a comfortable feeling, is it? Unfortunately for a Chinese couple, that’s exactly what happened and the video was an instant hit, with over 15 thousand views in only two days. A subway platform was the set of the "action" and the security cameras were the ones that captured the conten ... [read more >>]
	22 January 2008, 19:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

U.S. Community Be Warned, China’s Gonna Getcha!
	Looking at China when it comes to the Internet is like looking into the little box where you keep the little things that you’ve carried through since childhood: a little tin soldier, the leg of an action figure, a button, a couple of the first love letters you ever received or those you never had the strength and courage to send. It’s like looking back into your past, everything is gleaming with familiarity. China’s online community is ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 06:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chinese Blogger Beaten to Death by Authorities
	Wei Wenhua (魏文华 is the Chinese spelling of his name) happened on a confrontation in Hubei, a central Chinese province, between city inspectors and residents protesting against the dumping of waste near their homes. Being the "citizen journalist" that he was, Wei quickly took out his phone with the intention to film the whole fight, most likely to later upload it and post it on his blog. According[ ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 17:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No iPhone for China Mobile, This Time for Good
	Apple and China Mobile have been discussing to bring the iPhone on the Chinese market since November 2007. At a given moment, the discussions stopped, but the fact seemed possible at the end of the last year. However, now it's clear that China Mobile will not be an ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 07:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chinese Authorities: Nude Material Not Welcomed in Our Country!
	China is one of those countries struggling to censor all kinds of material and it seems like the nude content may see its end very soon. The Chinese authorities have started a national campaign supposed to reduce the amount of nudity and sexual content appearing in video or audio material because they promote "bad taste", the Associated Press reported. The campaign will last 3 months and all the audio and video producer ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 06:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No More Free Online Video Content for China
	I knew I liked the idea of communism for a reason. It is the one political doctrine that I’ve gone through and that actually lets you take away what is basically free and allowed to everybody and say "you can’t have that" without having to worry for serious consequences. How cool is that? Different points of view? No, we can’t have that, I say we cut off their means of spreading the seeds of disorder. It’s not been two months ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia