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Fresh in the wake of China’s massive wireless restructuring, execs are already on the offensive with fightin’ words that suggest true, standards-based 4G could be coming sooner rather than later. Though he says EV-DO Rev. A is still in the cards for the short term, China Telecom’s CEO says that GSM and CDMA networks alike will all converge to LTE in the country, thus signalling the abandonment of the CDMA-favored UMB migration path by yet another of the world’s wireless juggernauts. All told, it’s looking promising that the overwhelming majority of the world’s countries will be on the same cellular technology page within the next decade or so — but who would’ve thought the creator of TD-SCDMA would commit to being one of the first to flip the switch?
 
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China Mobile is reported to be planning a tender for the second phase of its TD-SCDMA network rollout, but not until following this August’s Olympic Games.

Sources told that China Mobile is - as widely expected - to be forced to stick with the Chinese developed 3G technology while its rivals China Unicom and China Telecom will be allowed to use CDMA or WCDMA as they prefer.

"China Mobile will not expand the network to other cities before the Olympics," said Fok Tung-ling, chairman of Comba Telecom Systems Holdings, one of the equipment suppliers to China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA networks. However, he then confirmed that the mobile operator is expected to tender for a contract to expand the network after the Olympics. "The next phase of the TD-SCDMA network expansion will not be limited to the existing 10 cities, and is likely to be aggressively rolled out on the mainland," Mr Fok added.

China’s CCID Consulting issued a report earlier this year which predicted that the country would have 51 million TD-SCDMA subscribers by 2011. CCID Consulting forecast that after an introduction period of deployment in 2008, TD-SCDMA will enter a peak period of deployment between 2009 and 2011.

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I’m often speaking about censorship in China mainland, but don’t forget that it also happens in the most beautiful self-proclaimed "democracy", namely, the U.S.
Frightening…

The transparency group WikiLeaks.org currently seems to be under heavy fire. The main WikiLeaks.org DNS entry is unavailable, reportedly due to a restraining order relating to a series of articles and documents released by WikiLeaks about off-shore trust structures in the Cayman Islands. The WikiLeaks whistle blower, allegedly former vice president of the Cayman Islands branch of swiss bank Julius Baer, states in the WikiLeaks documents that the bank supported tax evasion and money laundering by its clients from around the world. WikiLeaks alternate names remained available until Saturday, when there seems to have been a heavy DDoS attack and a fire at the ISP. The documents in question are still available on other WikiLeaks sites, such as wikileaks.be, and are also mirrored on Cryptome. Details of the court documents have also been made available.

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Sociologists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting have reported that China is making major investments in nanotechnology. Their aim is to ‘leapfrog’ past the United States in technological development by focusing on long-ranging scientific goals. So far, the Chinese government has poured about $400 million into the young field of research. Considering the low cost of equipment and labor over there, that is a very large sum of money, and China’s investment is expected to ‘rise considerably.’
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China may relax Internet censorship during the Olympics

BEIJING (AFP) - 5 February , 2008 - China is debating whether to relax control of the Internet during the Olympics, allowing access to banned websites such as the BBC, a spokeswoman for the organising committee said Tuesday. Plans to tear down the so-called Great Firewall (GFW) of China were being debated and a decision was expected soon, said Wang Hui, head of media relations for the organising committee. “We are studying this now based on suggestions of some journalists and a study of the experiences of other countries, so during the Olympics there may be some changes,” she said. “This is one of the ways the Olympics may promote progress in China.”

China tightly polices cyberspace and Chinese web surfers see a stripped-down version of the Internet minus some news sites such as the BBC and those belonging to human rights groups or any other sites judged subversive by the country’s communist rulers. Wang said that changes were expected to be in place in time for the Olympics for the 20,000 foreign journalists planning to cover the Games. “I believe you will be able to (access banned sites such as the BBC) but I can’t give you a promise yet. The relevant government departments are still working on it,” she said.

You can imagine if all these foreign reporters widely broadcast worldwide that Chinese Government wildly censor Internet… It’s a question of face-saving!!! Moreover, maybe these reporters will discover the ugliest thing about censorship in China: the People is quite simply not aware of this censorship!
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China Mobile is pessimistic about the development of TD-SCDMA, China’s homegrown 3G standard, because of handset problems and the relative strength of other standards.

Chinese operators are also already preparing to compete over who will develop a network for WCDMA, the European 3G standard, after the TD-SCDMA network is in place.

The source said that China Mobile is working to ensure TD-SCDMA is ready in time for the Olympics in August, despite problems with the network and with handsets.

"China Mobile employees have been using TD-SCDMA handsets since November 2007 for testing purposes. They can use some 3G functions, such as video telephone and high-speed download. However, due to quality problems with TD-SCDMA handsets, the results of the trials have not been good," the source said.

"However, even though there are many problems, the TD-SCDMA network will be put into use before the Olympics," the source said.

The source said that TD-SCDMA handsets are encountering difficulties. "One reason [China Mobile is pessimistic about TD-SCDMA] is that TD-SCDMA handsets, which are produced in China, have serious problems." The source added that the earliest that phone numbers for TD-SCDMA handsets will be released to the general public will be in May of this year.

Compared with handsets supporting the WCDMA network, TD-SCDMA handsets are much weaker in both quantity and quality, the source said.

Another problem with TD-SCDMA is that the network is unstable, and does not operate well in cities with many tall buildings, such as Shanghai, the source said, since the buildings obstruct the signals.

WCDMA appears to be the preferred choice among Chinese operators. According to the source, competition is already heating up over who will be permitted to develop WCDMA in China after TD-SCDMA is in use.
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CNSA via Reuters / Xinhua

A detail from China’s Chang’e lunar orbiter shows cratered terrain on the moon. A yellow circle has been added to highlight craters that show evidence of botched photo retouching.

Some dogged sleuthing by a fellow space blogger has tracked down the truth behind the controversial first photo from China’s moon orbiter.

In the week since the picture was released amid much fanfare in Beijing, there have been widespread rumors that the photo was a fake, copied from an old picture collected by a U.S. space probe.

The good news for the Chinese is that Planetary Society blogger Emily Lakdawalla’s clears them of outright fakery. The bad news is, she found evidence that the photo was badly retouched for public release.

Lakdawalla’s explanation would be embarrassing for Beijing, but it makes the most sense as the solution to this week’s moon photo mystery.

Lakdawalla began her investigation by plowing through databases of lunar imagery and dredging up a U.S.-produced picture for comparison. It’s not a NASA picture, as reported by the rumor mill. Instead, it’s one of the tens of thousands of pictures taken by the Pentagon’s Clementine lunar mapping orbiter back in 1994.

The photo from China’s Chang’e 1 orbiter is clearly a higher-resolution view, with sunlight streaming from the northwest rather than the north.

"So the notion that China faked their lunar photo can be put to rest. (What is it about the moon and conspiracy theories, anyway?)," Lakdawalla wrote. "At least it certainly isn’t a copy of the Clementine image; and it’s certainly not a Lunar Orbiter image, either."

Case closed? Not quite.

Lakdawalla found that a mistake was apparently made in stitching together the 19 strips of imagery to produce the finished picture - and that Chinese officials unknowingly pointed out that mistake as they defended the photo’s veracity.

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PanImages是新的搜寻计划计划出来从华盛顿州大学。它允许使用者搜寻图片通过本国的语言，和接受更多结果比以传统查寻。

今天，数据分析在图片旁边引导搜寻图片。比如说，搜寻“flowers"在Google回答11.4百万结果，但是如果你只说西班牙语，搜寻“flores"就回答2.2百万结果。

搜寻机械慢慢地开始允许跨语言搜索，为了归还更多的结果为人不会说普通的语言。Google就运用是二个多语言和它不允许跨语言搜索。

比较，PanImages，支撑三百多语言。使用者写问题和选择他的语言，然后可以看结果包括翻译在Google Image和Flickr。
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A really good and interesting article that would convince dubious people that 3G is not mandatory in order to enjoy a real mobile Internet experience
 
 
We’ve all read articles about why the iPhone won’t sell because it doesn’t boast the latest and greatest 3G technology, which can transmit data at 1.8, 3.6, 7.2, and in some places, 14.4 megabits per second. Instead, Apple chose to go with the more ubiquitous EDGE system, which tops out at 0.2 mbits per second here in the US, and presumably will do the same in the UK and Germany when the iPhone launches there next month.

But the question left unasked as been, "Does 3G really improve the user experience dramatically?" Most pundits would reply, "Well, of course Internet experiences improve with higher bandwidth. That’s why the world went broadband." And if the pundit is having a bad day, they’ll add "Duh."

Funny thing though. They’re wrong. Bandwidth doesn’t affect the mobile phone experience nearly as much as most people think. And in some cases, high bandwidth Internet is actually worse for the user than a low-bandwidth one.

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And day after day, purgation continues on Internet in China mainland…
日复一日，清洁继续在因特网在中国。。。
Now, it’s turn to Diablotim website to disappear!
现在，这是Diablotim的网站哪消失！

Before / 以前:

 
After "cleaning" / 清洁以后:

 
Freedom’s dead! Long live freedom!
自由死了！自由万岁！
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