Owen Fletcher - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Owen Fletcher

Article | 12/06/2009 China's porn filter blocks Falun Gong sites

Internet filtering software that China plans to distribute nationwide blocks content related to a spiritual movement banned in China, despite governme...

Article | 8/06/2009 China demands new PCs have Web site-blocking program

China will require that Web filtering software be included with all computers sold in the country, another step up in its efforts to control pornograp...

Article | 4/06/2009 MIPS ports Android, shows embedded gadgets

MIPS Technologies showed off devices based on a version of Google's Android platform modified for MIPS chip architecture at the Computex exhibition in...

Article | 4/06/2009 Taiwanese netbook runs both Android and Windows

A Taiwanese organization has developed a netbook based on Google's Android platform that can also switch into Microsoft's Windows operating system to ...

Article | 3/06/2009 Ultra-low voltage laptops draw interest at show

Laptops using Intel's low-power chips for machines bigger than a netbook checkered PC displays at Computex Taipei on Tuesday, revealing growing popula...

Article | 1/06/2009 Google may take music downloads beyond China

Google is considering taking the free music download search it offers in China to other countries as well, though it has no specific plans yet, the co...

Article | 1/06/2009 20 years after Tiananmen, China containing dissent online

The Internet has brought new hope to reformists in China since the country crushed pro-democracy protests in the capital 20 years ago. But as dissiden...

Article | 26/05/2009 China sentences virtual currency extorter to prison

A Chinese man who extorted virtual items and currency from a fellow Internet cafe user to improve his performance in online games was sentenced over t...

Article | 25/05/2009 'Chinese Wikipedia' offers social networking too

A Chinese rival of Wikipedia that also lets users join groups and chat as they might on Facebook has drawn on those social elements to pull ahead of i...

Article | 21/05/2009 Lenovo profit down again as high-end sales suffer

Lenovo posted a greater quarterly net loss than in the previous three months as the world's fourth-biggest PC vendor began restructuring and continued...

Article | 22/05/2009 DNS attack downs Internet in parts of China

An attack on the servers of a domain registrar in China caused an online video application to cripple Internet access in parts of the country late on ...

Article | 20/05/2009 China clears bloggers who criticized government

Two Chinese bloggers separately detained for writing online about government corruption have had their charges dropped by police in recent weeks.

Article | 19/05/2009 Ballmer meeting with Alibaba CEO stirs Yahoo speculation

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met last week with Jack Ma, the CEO of top Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo's operations in Chi...

Article | 6/05/2009 China's chips to power blade servers this year

Blade servers based on microprocessors designed in China will power a supercomputer prototype to be revealed by a government-backed Chinese firm in Se...

Article | 4/05/2009 Chinese iPhone apps expand as Apple seeks deal

A growing number of Chinese iPhone applications let users trawl through maps, look up English words and check stock quotes, even though the smartphone...