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China's number of Web users rises to 513 million (AP)
BEIJING ? The number of Internet users in China has surged past 500 million as millions of new Web surfers go online using mobile phones and tablet computers, an industry group reported Monday.
The popularity of the Internet in China has driven the explosive growth of profitable Web companies and made fortunes for some Chinese entrepreneurs despite government controls on what the public can see online.
The number of mainland Internet users rose to 513 million in December, up 12 percent from a year earlier, the government-sanctioned China Internet Network Information Center said.
Among them, the number who go online using handheld devices rose 17.5 percent over a year earlier to 356 million.
The popularity of wireless Internet was reflected Friday in a scramble by Chinese gadget fans and scalpers to buy Apple Inc.'s latest iPhone 4S, which sold out within hours of its China launch.
Angry customers shouted and threw eggs at Apple's flagship Beijing outlet after the company failed to open the store, citing the size of the crowd. Apple postponed further iPhone 4S sales at its mainland stores for safety reasons but said they will be sold online and through its local carrier, China Unicom Ltd.
The communist government encourages Internet use for business and education but tries to block access to material it deems pornographic or subversive.
The governnment is strengthening its control over popular microblogs after a bullet train crash last July that killed 40 people prompted an online outpouring of criticism of the official response.
Microblog services have been ordered to monitor postings content more closely and remove objectionable material, while news media were barred from reporting online material without firsthand verification.
Despite such controls, popular online services such as portals Sina.com and Sohu.com, video websites Youku.com and Tudou.com and search engine Baidu report growing traffic and revenues.
Outlets owned by the ruling Communist Party or by the government also have jumped into the market, launching their own search engines and other services.
On Friday, regulators approved an initial public stock offering by the online arm of the ruling party newspaper People's Daily, people.com, on the Shanghai Stock Exchange to raise 527 million yuan ($85 million).
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Malaysian court clears Anwar of sodomy charges (Reuters)
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) ? A Malaysian court acquitted opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy charges on Monday, a surprise ruling that could accelerate the political comeback of one of Asia's most celebrated reformers ahead of an expected election this year.
Judge Zabidin Mohamad Diah found Anwar not guilty due to doubts over whether DNA samples tendered as evidence were contaminated, setting off celebrations by thousands of opposition supporters outside the High Court in Kuala Lumpur.
"And because it was a sexual offence, the court is reluctant to convict on uncorroborated evidence. Therefore the accused is acquitted and discharged," Zabidin told a packed courtroom in the Malaysian capital.
Sex between males is a criminal offence in this mainly Muslim country of 28 million people and it was the second time Anwar was charged under the law.
A conviction would have meant a jail term of up to 20 years, effectively ending Anwar's leadership of the opposition three-party Pakatan coalition at a crucial time when Prime Minister Najib Razak is preparing for elections.
Najib has slowly introduced political and economic reforms but is wary of moving too aggressively and provoking a backlash by conservatives in his Muslim ethnic-Malay dominated government.
Anwar was heir-apparent to then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in the late 1990s before he fell out with his mentor and was sacked as deputy prime minister and then jailed on sodomy and corruption charges. The conviction was over-turned in 2004 after he had served six years.
He was expelled from the long-ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) but is currently Najib's main rival for the votes of the country's Malay majority.
Anwar has promoted a rival vision for Malaysia that would abolish or scale back its most authoritarian laws and scrap a system of ethnic preferences for Malays that ethnic-Chinese and ethnic-Indian Malaysians say is unfair and has been cited by even some prominent Malays for holding Malaysia back.
"In the coming election, the voice of the people will be heard and this corrupt government will be toppled from its pedestals of power," read a Twitter message from Anwar's account, minutes after the verdict.
Three explosions were heard in the parking area outside the courthouse where protesters had gathered. Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf, a police spokesman, said two people were injured and taken to hospital.
A preliminary investigation found that two explosive devices were placed under police cones, but it was not clear who was responsible.
Anwar has long contended the trial was a plot by the ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition to prevent him from taking power at the next election, which is not due until 2013 but may be called this year before a potential global downturn stalls Malaysia's economic growth.
"(The verdict) will be more wind in the sails of the opposition Pakatan's camp than in Barisan Nasional's camp," said Ooi Kee Beng, a deputy director at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies of Singapore.
"Najib can of course say that the judiciary is not as corrupt as Pakatan says but so what? If the judiciary is not very corrupt, it doesn't mean that the government is good."
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Najib's approval ratings have fallen over the year due to a growing religious divide that has alienated minority non-Muslims and fanned middle-class anger over inflation and the slow pace of promised political reforms.
Najib's government cited the verdict as evidence that the judicial system was independent under his leadership and as a sign his reforms were working. That line of argument could weaken the opposition by depriving it of one of its main accusations: that the courts are skewed towards the government.
"Malaysia has an independent judiciary and this verdict proves that the government does not hold sway over judges' decisions," the government said in a statement that also praised Najib's "bold democratic reforms."
The verdict also helps Najib avoid international condemnation of Malaysian courts at a time when he hopes to improve ties with the United States and Europe.
Earlier, about 2,000 Anwar supporters had gathered outside the court, chanting "reformasi" (reform) and carrying banners reading "People are the judge" and "We are against slander" under heavy police presence.
Anwar behind bars could have been a powerful unifying force for Malaysia's opposition, and now that he is freed he faces the difficult task of trying to bring together disparate strands into one movement that could challenge Najib, said Shaun Levine, an Asia analyst with political risk consultancy Eurasia Group in Washington.
"This puts pressure on Najib to call the election even sooner," Levine said.
(Additional reporting by Emily Kaiser; Writing by Liau Y-Sing. Editing by Jason Szep and Sanjeev Miglani)
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Lenovo outs IdeaCentre B340 and B540 all-in-ones, H520s and IdeaCentre K430 towers
Ultrabooks might be the belle of the ball at this year's CES, but that doesn't mean you won't see a few desktops thrown in for variety's sake. Lenovo just unveiled a quartet of stationary machines, including two towers and a pair of touchscreen all-in-ones. Beginning with those touchscreens, the IdeaCentre B340 and B540 are essentially the same system, except the former has a 21.5-inch screen and the latter expands to 23. Both have 1080p displays and can be configured with up to 8GB of RAM and 2TB of storage, an optional Blu-ray drive and 3D tech. The only variation in specs, so far as we can tell, is that the 21.5-inch version maxes out with a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 615M card, whereas for the 23-incher the top-shelf offering is the GeForce GT 650M with 2GB of video memory. Lenovo's also bundled its finger-friendly IdeaTouch software, whose OneKey TV feature lets you toggle between your desktop and TV mode using a picture-in-a-picture. Look for these in June, with an entry price of $699.Shifting gears to towers, the IdeaCentre K430 is aimed at gamers and other users of the powerful sort, with room for up to 32GB of DDR3 memory and either a 128GB SSD or as much as 4TB in HDD storage, with optional twin hard drives arranged in a RAID0 configuration. And, unlike with Lenovo's more mainstream desktops, you'll get a choice of graphics: a 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX660 or, from AMD's camp, a 2GB Radeon HD 7750. Don't need that much muscle? The H520 tower has a compact shape and still accommodates up to 2TB of storage space and 8GB of RAm, along with either a 2GB AMD Radeon HD7570 or a 2GB GeForce GTX630 card. Expect the K430 to arrive in May for $599, and the H520s to follow in June for $499 and up.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Nanowiggles: graphene nanomaterials with 'tunable functionality in electronics'
Cue lawsuit from The Wiggles in 3... 2.... Just kidding. No one sues scientists, right? Right? Courtroom drama aside, gurus from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have just uncovered what's apt to be the most germane graphene discovery in our lifetime. Or, at least 2012. The goal here is to actively work on an alternative to silicon-based technologies, enabling our gizmos to continue getting slimmer and slimmer without losing core functionality. Pure graphene isn't a semiconductor, but it can be altered to display "exceptional electrical behavior." The latest breakthrough is cutely known as graphene nanowiggles, describing the discovery that "graphitic nanoribbons can be segmented into several different surface structures." According to the release just after the break, practical applications haven't been hammered out just yet, but there's plenty of promise. 'Course, we've heard "promise" and "graphene" in the same sentences for eons, but hopefully the whole "wiggle" thing will give these guys a leg-up.Continue reading Nanowiggles: graphene nanomaterials with 'tunable functionality in electronics'
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Friday, January 6, 2012
31 inmates killed in northern Mexico prison fight (AP)
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico ? A fight among inmates armed with makeshift knives, clubs and stones left 31 people dead in a prison in a drug-plagued state in northern Mexico, authorities said.
Another 13 prisoners were wounded in the brawl in the penitentiary in the Gulf Coast city of Altamira, Tamaulipas state's Public Safety Department said in a statement.
The fight started when a group of inmates burst into a section of the prison they were banned from and attacked the prisoners housed there, the department said.
Local media said the fight was between members of the rival Gulf and Zetas drug cartels but authorities wouldn't confirm the reports. Tamaulipas state has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the two former allies.
Tamaulipas state officials said many of the dead were killed by makeshift knives. A state official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation said several of the inmates were beaten to death with clubs or stones.
Soldier and marines managed to take control of the prison, the official said.
The safety department said 22 of the inmates killed were serving sentences for state crimes and nine for federal offenses. It gave no other details.
The port of Altamira in southern Tamaulipas, near the border with the state of Veracruz, is in a region that has seen a spike in drug-violence in the last two months. Authorities say the port is used to bring in cocaine and precursor chemicals used to make methamphetamine into Mexico.
In 2010, four inmates at the Altamira prison were killed when an armed gang stormed the penitentiary as 11 inmates were being transferred. Authorities did not confirm reports that the raid was an attempt to free prisoners. Gang raids on prisons are common in Tamaulipas.
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Sites knocked offline by OpenDNS freeze on Google
Innocent websites were blocked and labelled phishers on Wednesday following an apparent conflict between OpenDNS and Google's Content Delivery Network (CDN).
OpenDNS - a popular domain name lookup service* - sparked the outage by blocking access to googleapis.com, Google's treasure trove of useful scripts and apps for web developers. According to reports, a flood of errors hit pages that used Google-hosted jQuery and hundreds of thousands of sites fell over.
Visitors to websites were confronted with a message saying: "Phishing site blocked. Phishing is a fraudulent attempt to get you to provide personal information under false pretenses."
Other visitors were greeted with a 404 error, aka the dreaded 'file not found' message.
Web design and hosting specialist Brit-Net, whose operations director Mat Bennett captured the phishing error message here, told The Reg the outage lasted for nearly three hours.
As sites and service providers struggled to get back online they employed fallback scripts and re-routed traffic to Microsoft's rival CDN. Brit-Net was among those updating its code to point to Microsoft.
The cause of the problem with OpenDNS seemed to be the googleapi.com security certificates, according to Bennett and this article advising on working around the problem.
The fact the issue popped up suddenly on Wednesday would suggest that engineers at Google had been fiddling with SSL certificates or made some other change that conflicted with OpenDNS. Google was not available for comment at the time of publication.
Bennett told The Reg that one consequence of the outage for his company is that it would institute a system that sets Google as the default but would switch to Microsoft's CDN if Google's system drops out in future to save having to manually tweak web apps. ?
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* DNS, for the uninitiated, is the vital system that points browsers at the correct servers when given a human-readable address, such as facebook.com or theregister.co.uk. Although ISPs provide DNS services for their customers, punters can opt to use alternative providers, such as OpenDNS.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Russia's Putin dreams of sweeping Eurasian Union (AP)
ALMATY, Kazakhstan ? Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a vision for a Soviet Union-lite he hopes will become a new Moscow-led global powerhouse. But, his planned Eurasian Union won't be grounded in ideology: This time it's about trade.
The concept of regional economic integration may be losing some of its allure in Europe, where a debt crisis is threatening the existence of the eurozone. But some countries across the former Soviet Union, still struggling economically 20 years after becoming independent, are embracing Putin's grand ambition.
Russia has moved one step toward this goal under an agreement with former fellow Soviet republics Belarus and Kazakhstan that as of Sunday allows the free movement of goods and capital across their common borders.
As Putin envisions it, the still-hypothetical union will eventually stretch from the eastern fringes of Central Europe to the Pacific Coast and south to the rugged Pamir Mountains abutting Afghanistan.
The drive to somehow reform at least a husk of the Soviet Union has been around since 1991. The Commonwealth of Independent States, which loosely brings together 11 of the original 15 republics, was an early attempt that never amounted to much more than a glorified alumni club.
It was Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev who first raised the notion of an Eurasian Union in the early 1990s, but the idea was too premature for nations busy forging their own delicate statehoods.
Putin was president from 2000 to 2008 and intends to regain that position in a March election. A wave of protests that began after a fraud-tainted parliamentary election in December is posing the first serious challenge to Putin's authority, but his hold on power still seems secure.
In anticipation of a new six-year term as president, Putin has made forming a Eurasian Union by 2015 a foreign policy priority. He is promoting the union as necessary for Russia and its neighbors to compete in the modern global economy. His broader goal is to restore some of Moscow's economic and political clout across former Soviet space and thus strengthen Russia's position in the world.
If the poorer prospective members are clamoring for Putin's union so as to become Moscow's financial beneficiaries, as was the case under the Soviet Union, they may be sorely disappointed. Russia has in recent years taken a more pragmatic line when extending its largesse and that stance is expected to remain largely unchanged.
"Some years ago, Russia came to the position that assistance to former Soviet republics should be monetized," said Ivan Safranchuk, an associate professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Safranchuk said this meant that Moscow issued lines of credit and then sold countries oil, gas, electricity and military hardware at discount prices.
That strategy has brought Russia closer to gaining control over energy infrastructure in Ukraine, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. While giving Moscow economic leverage over its former subjects, this approach has precluded the exorbitant spending pressure that helped bankrupt the Soviet Union.
The agreement to form a "common economic space" that went into effect Jan. 1 gives Russia up to 30 million new customers in Belarus and Kazakhstan, while these countries gain greater access to Russia's market of more than 140 million people. The risk to Russian manufacturers is the relatively lower cost of production in the other two countries, which could potentially drive them out of business.
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, both economically struggling nations in Central Asia, may be the next to join the free trade club.
Kyrgyzstan's former President Roza Otunbayeva said before stepping down in late October that she saw her nation's fate as inevitably linked with the Eurasian Union.
"The natural flow of the work force, services and movement of capital is of course all directed to Russia and Kazakhstan," she said.
Current President Almazbek Atambayev has made it clear he sees the fate of Kyrgyzstan, which hosts a U.S. air base that acts as a crucial transportation hub for military operations in Afghanistan, as very much tied to Russia.
Neighboring Tajikistan, whose long and porous border with Afghanistan keeps many a security analyst awake at night, has proven a more recalcitrant partner and was recently embroiled in an unseemly diplomatic spat with Russia. But with more than an estimated 1 million Tajik migrants currently working in Russia, the lure of a border-free future could be too compelling to refuse.
Other potential members of the Eurasian Union in the Kremlin's sights appear more wary about what this means for their sovereignty.
Ukraine, which has flirted uncertainly with membership, fears it could further jeopardize its future economic and political engagement with Western Europe. Others, such as Armenia, have proven positively cool on the idea, while Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili will likely always be hostile to anything coming out of Moscow.
Dmitry Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, cautioned against talking up the prospect of the Eurasian Union as a political project.
"I see no absolutely no wish on behalf of the Kazakhstani leadership to give up their sovereignty, and I see the Belarusian people not wishing to become part of Russia," he said.
Still, Russia's neighbors may have reason to fear Kremlin attempts to restore political domination.
Shortly after Putin came to power, the Foreign Ministry spelled out Russia's strategic vision in no uncertain terms. The document, which dates back to 2000, argues for promoting policies that "best serve the interests of Russia as a great power and as one of the most influential centers in the modern world."
The theme was recently reprised in campaign literature for Putin's United Russia party, which claimed that the "new union will allow our country to become another pole of influence in the modern, multipolar world."
Trenin said that so far the fears of renewed Kremlin domination were ungrounded, noting that Kazakhstan and Belarus only increase the reach of Russia's markets by one-fifth in terms of population.
"That's fine, but it doesn't make you a powerhouse," he said.
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China encourages retired military officers to start their own businesses via online training
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China has launched an Internet-based employment training system for retired army officers, Yin Weimin, the country?s Minister of Human Resources and Social Security tells People?s Daily, China?s leading news website .
The system targets retiring high-ranking officers who prefer to start their own businesses or finding employment on their own, instead of taking offers to join governmental agencies or public institutions. A significant amount of retirement payments and systematic employment training is provided to the officers who choose not to take up positions in governmental organizations.
Over 40,000, or 95 percent, of those who retired this year had received training through this system, while more than 116,000 officers have launched their own businesses, backed by this initiative in the last ten years, since the introduction of this program, the report claims.
The news of China using Internet for training comes as a surprise, since the country is often making headlines for adopting stringent ways of censoring information on the Internet.
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