In a story in this week’s magazine, TIME profiles Wan Tao, once one of China’s most feared hongke, or red hackers, cyberwarriors motivated by patriotism to attack foreign digital victims.
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Weibo Credit: Chinese Microblogging Site Tests Points-Based Censorship
Chinese Microblogs Ripe with Reports of Fruit-Scented iPhones
First, people wanted to smell like brand-new Apple products. Now it appears brand-new Apple products smell like fruit.
Well, that’s the news coming out of China, anyway. M.I.C. Gadget writes that the Chinese Internet is awash …
Axis of Suppression: China, Facebook and Iran, Says Google’s Sergey Brin
Google might not exist today had dominant rivals like Facebook been around when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created their search powerhouse, says Brin. In an interview with the Guardian, Brin says the Internet …
Five Charged in China After Teen Trades Kidney for iPhone and iPad
Camping overnight at the Apple store looks pretty tame after this case. Five people in southern China have been charged for taking a 17-year-old boy’s kidney in exchange for an iPad and an iPhone.
According to Reuters, one of …
WATCH: Rescuers Use iPhone to Save Little Boy from Well
In what will hopefully one day become a TV movie, a little boy in China was rescued from a well with the help of an iPhone.
The two-year-old fell down a narrow, 40-foot well in Mengzi City, a small city in China’s Yunnan …
China Welcomes Apple CEO Tim Cook, Approves New iPad for Sale
The China Quality Certification Center has given the green light for Apple to sell the Wi-Fi version of its new iPad.
via China Welcomes Apple CEO Tim Cook, Approves New iPad for Sale | Business | TIME.com.
CEOspotting: Apple’s Tim Cook Seen in China, but Why?
Let’s play a game! It’s called “spot the CEO traveling abroad, then speculate about what it means.” In this instance, we’re talking Apple CEO Tim Cook, reportedly spied by a blogger who snapped a casual picture of Cook as he …
Glitch Allows Chinese Citizens to Flood Obama’s Google+ Page with Comments
What to do when the strict system of Internet censorship around you briefly breaks down? For a number of Chinese citizens, the answer was to take their grievances directly to the most powerful man in the world.
A quick visit …
Why Did Apple Really Pull the iPad from Amazon China?
The timing couldn’t be worse: Amidst stories that Chinese officials are pulling Apple’s iPad from select stores over trademark infringement, Apple’s iPad unexpectedly vanished from Amazon China earlier this week. The …
Apple Stock Hits $500 as China ‘iPad’ Trademark Case Escalates
First, the good news: Apple shares briefly hit $500 Monday morning for the first time in its history — an impressive milestone and psychological threshold that underscores the incredible success of America’s largest …
Will the World Ever See Fair Trade iPads?
On weekend mornings, I have a routine. I wake up, shuffle down my street to pick up an everything bagel with butter, and stop at my favorite coffee shop for a caffeine fix. It’s one of those hip places Louis C.K. jokes about — …
