Owen Fletcher - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Owen Fletcher

Article | 16/07/2009 Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China

The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like sof...

Article | 15/07/2009 China bans shock treatment for Internet addiction

China has banned the use of shock therapy to treat Internet addiction after its use at one hospital sparked nationwide controversy.

Article | 15/07/2009 Turkish government site hacked amid spat with China

An attacker who defaced the Web site of Turkey's embassy in China on Monday left behind a pro-China note as the two countries worked through a diploma...

Article | 10/07/2009 Botnets infect fewer computers in China

The number of botnets and of computers controlled by them in China has fallen in recent years, though the country remains a top host for the networks ...

Article | 10/07/2009 Chinese 'Web addicts' get boot camp, therapy

Tao Ran, the founder of a youth rehabilitation center on a Beijing army base, has made it his mission to treat teenagers who are antisocial, doing poo...

Article | 8/07/2009 China's grip on Web prevents dissent on deadly riots

Beijing's Internet clampdown appears to have succeeded in shutting out dissenting views over deadly riots in western China that claimed at least 156 l...

Article | 3/07/2009 Suit over China's Web filter to target Lenovo, Acer, Sony

A U.S. company will seek legal action against Lenovo, Acer and Sony next week over their shipment in China of controversial software that the company ...

Article | 3/07/2009 Apple may be exempt from China's Web filter mandate

Apple appears to be exempt from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country.

Article | 30/06/2009 Group pitches Linux for free netbooks from mobile carriers

Mobile carriers may start giving away netbooks for free, and Linux-based application stores could help them profit by doing it, the head of a Linux ad...

Article | 30/06/2009 China delays censorware mandate for PC makers

China postponed its requirement for PC makers to ship Internet filtering software with new computers late Tuesday, just hours before the deadline it p...

Article | 23/06/2009 McAfee expands in China for expected security boom

McAfee is expanding its staff in China amid a boom in the country's security market fueled by the launch of next-generation mobile networks.

Article | 19/06/2009 Fight against China's Web filtering software grows

A U.S. company that says its code was copied by a Chinese Internet filtering program has ordered more PC makers not to distribute the Chinese software...

Article | 19/06/2009 China orders Google to suspend foreign site searches

China has ordered Google to suspend its foreign Web site search service after warning that the company's filtering of pornography was too weak, state ...

Article | 19/06/2009 T-Mobile to offer Huawei's Android phone next quarter

T-Mobile will release a smartphone running Google's Android operating system in Europe in the late third quarter, the phone's Chinese manufacturer, Hu...

Article | 16/06/2009 China to propose WLAN security standard for global use again

China will submit its wireless LAN security protocol to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for consideration as a global standar...