中文

Huawei will enter into the smartphone market in the first half of 2009, and plans on producing devices running on the Symbian OS and Google’s Android platform.

The Chinese equipment maker did not disclose details on the models it plans to produce or even how many phones it will be launching, but confirmed it would be working with Symbian and Android.

"Windows Mobile is already well supported by a number of software developers, but with Android and Symbian we can demonstrate our own customisable software and services," James Chen, director of marketing at Huawei Terminals Business, said at a briefing in Shenzhen this week.

Huawei has said it plans on launching in North America in the next five years.

华为2009年上半年推出Android和Symbian系统的手机

网易科技讯 北京时间11月7日消息 据国外网站报道，华为技术终端部门营销工程部部长陈崇军表示，公司计划于2009年上半年推出采用谷歌Android系统和Symbian系统的手机。同时还将在本月举行的GSMA移动通信亚洲大会上发布新的嵌入式3G模块。

　　最近华为取消了出售终端部门股权的计划，不过依然计划在手机和移动宽带设备上进行大扩张。陈崇军认为，全球性经济危机的出现将延长一直是市场主 流产品的低端功能手机寿命，使公司有时间发布可运行在所有主要操作系统上的智能手机；公司打算邀请私人资本加入华为，因为公司缺乏资金错失了很多国际市场 机会。

　　陈崇军表示，公司不会与索尼、爱立信一样，组建合资公司进行技术合作，因为自己的业务模式已经被证明是成功的，不需要技术合作伙伴，只需要资金支持；华为在智能手机上起步比较晚，但公司对客户化的关注使我们依然有希望领先并实现目标。

　　陈崇军指出，公司已经开发了一款采用Windows Mobile系统的智能手机，并计划在明年上半年发布采用Android和Symbian系统的手机；因为华为不但是Symbian基金会的成员，也是Android开放手机联盟的会员。Windows Mobile手机可从完全支持微软的桌面平台中获得好处，这适合软件能力弱的销售商；但采用开放操作系统，如华为这样在软件方面比较强的公司，可为运营商提供更多的客户化功能。

　　陈崇军表示，华为的智能手机打的是运营商牌子，没有贴自己的品牌，公司也没有如诺基亚一样发布内容和服务的计划，华为坚定地站在运营商阵营里，虽然公司会对手机进行客户化，但永远不会直接向终端用户销售服务。

　　华为还计划开发自己的移动宽带产品，包括与11月18-20日在澳门举行的GSMA移动通信亚洲大会合作发布一个嵌入式3G模块。不过陈崇军认 为，嵌入式3G模块不会与笔记本使用的Wi-Fi模块一样获得迅速成功，也不会迅速取代dongle，两者存在差异，3G模块需要笔记本销售商进行网络配 置，同时需要运营商业调整业务模式。

　　嵌入式3G模块市场与dongle市场相比要小，但在内置机器对机器模块市场上要比在笔记本市场上大。

 
Sources / 来源:
fiercewireless.com
lutianyi.com

中文

China has relaxed access for foreign investors to its booming telecommunications industry by cutting minimum required investments, but retained a ban on foreign majority ownership of ventures.

The Cabinet decision Friday could help to attract new investment into an industry that is undergoing a sweeping government-mandated restructuring aimed at boosting competition.

The minimum capital required for a foreign-financed company to offer national-level or local basic services was cut by 50 percent, according to a notice on its Web site. But the Cabinet retained a restriction limiting foreign investors to owning no more than 49 percent of a company offering basic services and 50 percent for value-added services.

The change could help new, small Chinese businesses by giving them easier access to foreign financing, increasing competition and speeding innovation.

It cuts minimum required capital for a foreign-financed company offering basic services at a national level to 1 billion yuan (US$145 million) and at a local level to 100 million yuan (US$14.5 million), the announcement said.

Spain’s Telefonica SA said last week it would spend 800 million euros (US$1.2 billion) to expand its holdings in Netcom and China’s No. 2 mobile company, China Unicom Ltd., which are due to merge. Telefonica said the investment would make it the combined company’s biggest shareholder, with a 5.5 percent stake.
 
 

外商投资电信企业 门槛降至10亿元

今年的电信业可谓大事不断，正当电信重组加紧进行之际，外商投资电信业的门槛又被大幅度降低。

　　9月12日，国务院法制办公布了修改后的《外商投资电信企业管理规定》(以下简称《规定》)，其中将原本设定的外商在中国投资全国性电信企业的门槛，从20亿元降低到了10亿元。 　　

　　根据修改后的《规定》，从即日起，外商在中国投资电信企业，经营全国的或者跨省、自治区、直辖市范围的基础电信业务的，其注册资本最低限额为10亿元人民币。经营增值电信业务的，其注册资本最低限额为1000万元人民币。 　　

　　经营省、自治区、直辖市范围内的基础电信业务的，其注册资本最低限额为1亿元人民币;经营增值电信业务的，其注册资本最低限额为100万元人民币。

　　在外资的控股比例上，原先的规定并未作出修改，依然是基础电信业务的外商出资比例不得超过49%，增值业务不得超过50%。 　　

　　我国电信业的对外开放始于2001年12月11日加入世界贸易组织。首先放开的是增值电信业务以及基础电信中的寻呼服务、移动话音和数据服务，而国内业务和国际业务放开时间则相对较晚。 　　

　　国家发改委和商务部修订的《外商投资产业指导目录》于2007年12月1日起施行。该《目录》规定，自2007年12月11日起，允许外资在基础电信的国内和国际业务中所持股权最高达到49%。 　　

　　在我国的六大基础电信运营商中，有三家已经有外资注入，形式也是清一色的参股。欧洲运营商沃达丰持有中国移动3%的股权，西班牙电信持有中国网通5%的股权，而韩国SK电讯则持有中国联通6.61%的股权。

Sources / 来源:
Herald Tribune
eNet

中文

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?
 
 

中国电信选定LTE 融合成4G主旋律

中国电信总经理王晓初近日在收购CDMA业务发布会上表示，CDMA网络的演进路线首先考虑在中心城市升级EV-DORev.A，并等待LTE（长期演进）的发展。
中国电信此前为CDMA网络规划了多个演进方案，包括向LTE、WiMAX（全球微波互联接入）和UMB（超移动宽带）升级的技术规划。中国电信研究院的一位人士坦言：“其实80%的可能要向LTE演进，这是全球大势，其他方案只不过供研究之选。”
 
 
Sources - 来源:
IntoMobile
Engadget Mobile
中国电子报

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.

To attract subscribers, China Mobile has already opened TD-SCDMA “experience shops” in eight major cities where existing 3G trials are underway to allow the public to experiment with TD-SCDMA handsets and gain confidence with their capabilities.

During this initial launch, 60,000 dual-mode TD-SCDMA/GSM handsets and 15,000 data cards will be on sale in China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA experience shops, from popular brands such Samsung, LG, Hisense, Lenovo, ZTE, and Postcom. These handsets are in the mid- to high-end range with built-in camera, wide screen, and extensive multimedia applications. China Mobile is believed to be selling these phones for subsidized prices of RMB2,000 ($286) – RMB4,000 ($572).

However, there could be another factor in the delay for the network rollout - and that is reports coming from people testing the TD-SCDMA phones are less than impressed with the service.

"The battery only works for one day after each charge, much less than my previous Nokia phone," journalist Irene Zhou, who paid US$400 for a Samsung TD-SCDMA phone told the Shanghai Daily. Zhou, who often takes out-of-town business trip, expects a phone battery to last for about three days. There were also complaints about coverage, although that is more forgivable in a trial network.
 
 
Source:
China’s TD-SCDMA expansion delayed until after Olympics

中文 

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.

The detailed story is here:
Cayman Islands Bank Gets Wikileaks Taken Offline in U.S.

Concerning China, don’t worry, WikiLeaks is obviously censored since a longtime…
Here is what you can learn on Wikipedia (prohibited in China as well!):

The Chinese government currently attempts to censor every web site with "wikileaks" in the URL. This includes the main wikileaks.org, wikileaks.cn and wikileaks.org.uk. However the site can be accessed from behind the Chinese firewall at the time of writing using https://secure.wikileaks.org/ or one of the many alternative names used by the project, such as ljsf.org or sunshinepress.org. As these alternatives may change frequently, the site suggests users from the mainland of China search for "wikileaks cover names" on non mainland-china search engines such as google.co.uk to locate the latest alternative names. Mainland based search engines, including those of Baidu and Yahoo, also censor references to "wikileaks."

维基揭密(WikiLeaks)对开曼群岛

我常常写关于检查制度发生在中国大陆，但是别忘记了也有在最漂亮的自己宣告的“民主政治“，即，美国！
恐吓地。。。

美国一名法官下令关闭一家检举揭密网站。在此之前，开曼群岛的一家银行发现这个网站上发布了一些宣称这家银行参与洗钱和逃税的文件。
这个名叫WikiLeaks(维基揭密)的网站被下令关闭、删除所有在线资料并封锁域名防止再次被使用。

这家网站属于总部设在美国的公司Dynadots，这是由中国异议人士创办的公司，目的是让威权国家的检举者在网上匿名发布敏感文件。

WikiLeaks的DNS进入是难以获得的。。。

关心的文件还在别的WikiLeaks的网站，例如wikileaks.be或者Cryptome。

详细的故事在这里：
Cayman Islands Bank Gets Wikileaks Taken Offline in U.S.
只有英文。。。因为我没有找到中文的。。。

关于中国，别担心，从很久时间WikiLeaks是禁止。。。
在Wikipedia（也是禁止在中国大陆），你可以学这个：

中国政府尝试检查每个网站哪里有“wikileaks“在URL里面。所以，包括wikileaks.org，wikileaks.cn和wikileaks.org.uk。然而可以到达这个网站通过替代的名字，例如ljsf.org或者sunshinepress.org。 但是那些名字常常改变因为中国政府禁止它们。所以，你只需要找“wikileaks cover names"在Google(但是别用中国的Google，因为他们检查这个。。。比如，用google.co.uk）。百度和Yahoo也检查提及关于“wikileaks"。

 
 
Vocabulary - 词汇:
宣告 = xuāngào = declare, proclaim
民主政治 = mínzhǔ zhèngzhì = democracy
恐吓 = kǒnghè = threaten
详细 = xiángxì = detailed
对 = duì = face, oppose
异议 = yìyì = rebellion, conflict, opposition, protest, protestation
禁止 = jìnzhǐ = ban, forbid, prohibit
尝试 = chángshì = attempt
然而 = rán ér = however
 
 
Sources - 来源:
Slashdot
美国之音中文网（禁止在中国大陆）

中文

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.’
 
 

美研究人员称中国纳米技术迅速发展 将超越美国

据美国媒体2月18日报道，美国加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉研究所的研究人员近日发出一则消息说“中国在纳米技术上投入了大量的资金，目标是要在科技发展上超越美国，但是这些努力能否取得回报还不清楚。”

还报道还说，到目前为止，在中国的相关纳米技术研究项目中，政府投资并不是主要的资金来源，从2002至2007年，中国政府只投入了大约4亿美元，未来的投资额预计会有所上升。
 
 
Vocabulary - 词汇:
纳米技术 = nà mǐ jì shù = nanotechnology
研究 = yánjiū = research
迅速 = xùnsù = fast
超越 = chāoyuè = to surpass, to exceed
媒体 = méitǐ = media
目标 = mùbiāo = target, goal, objective
 
 
Sources - 来源:
Slashdot
Wired Blog Network
中青网

中文

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!

It was unclear whether Chinese citizens would benefit from the plan to reduce Internet oversight but wider reporting freedoms introduced for foreign journalists here last year have not been extended to domestic reporters. From January 1, 2007, travel and interview restrictions were lifted on foreign journalists working in China in line with the country’s undertaking to provide free access to the country for the media before and during the Games.

In short, it should be better to censor the censorship, just during the Olympic Games!…

By the way, that’s funny to notice that when you look for "李大同谈奥运与互联网管制" (the corresponding news’ title in Chinese), you have more than 400 results in Google and only 5 results on Baidu.com (the Chinese competitor of Google, ranked #1).
Then, when you click on the results, all the corresponding websites are… censored!!! The only reachable website is a forum where a guy posted this article. And there is only one answer to his post: "Liar!". Anyway, let’s gage that the posted article will disappear in the coming days or maybe this website is going to lose it’s ICP number! (any website - provides content and so - is regulated by Chinese Authorities. To operate, they need an "Internet Content Provider (ICP)", provided by the Government).
 
 
 
 
 

责难检查制度!

李大同谈奥运与互联网管制

         据媒体报道，北京奥组委的新闻发言人近日表示，中国正在考虑在08北京奥运会期间解除对部分外国网站的封锁，以方便届时来中国进行报道的外国记者的工作。然而该发言人强调，这只是停留在探讨阶段，政府最终如何决策尚未确定。也就是说，中国有望放宽对互联网领域的新闻管制？
     
         距08北京奥运会还有整整半年时间。中国政府已经在为准备奥运做最后的冲刺。全世界的目光也早已聚焦在中国身上。特别是中国的人权问题以及新闻自由状况尤为引起西方关注。中国在07年初承诺放宽对外国驻华记者的采访限制，保障其出行自由。尽管仍有外国记者抱怨在从事新闻工作中受到监督或是阻挠，但是整体情况有所改善是不可否认的事实。
   
    近日法新社一篇短讯报道，北京奥组委新闻发言人王惠女士向媒体宣布，中国政府正在考虑在08北京奥运期间暂时解除对部分外国网站的封锁，其中包括英国广播公司的网页以及一些人权组织的网站。德国之声的网页也长期遭到封锁。虽然中国各个城市情况不同，但是大部分情况下网友无法登陆德国之声网站浏览信息。王女士不忘补充，解除网页封锁只是政府的一项考虑，并非决策。
   
    由于一些西方记者的建议，以及鉴于其他国家在这方面的经验，中国政府可以考虑在奥运期间做一些政策上的改变。毕竟届时将有2万余名外国记者前往中国报道奥运这一体育盛事。解除对部分外国网页的封锁，是否意味着中国将放宽在互联网领域的新闻管制，实行部分新闻自由？

你能想像如果所有这些外国记者广泛播放在全世界事实中国政府野蛮地检查互联网。。。就是“出于面子考虑“的问题！！！而且，可能这些外国记者会发现最丑的一件事关于检查在中国：人民是很根本就不知道这项检查！
   

    中国资深传媒人士，前“冰点”专刊主编李大同认为，假设中国政府在奥运期间解除网页封锁，也并非出于实行新闻自由考虑：“那当然是出于国际形象的考虑，新闻自由目前根本没有可能。其实，他封锁外国的这些标准的新闻机构的网页本身就是非常的愚蠢。即便是在政治功利上考虑也是很愚蠢的。国外这些专业的媒体信息，如果是不关心的人，你封锁有什么用？如果是关心的人，你也封锁不住。比如说我本人可以随意浏览这些网页。这种封锁反而证明了你自己心虚。如果中国政府从奥运开始对外国严肃媒体的网页实行开放，那无疑是一种进步，值得鼓励。”
   
    中国有二亿网民，互联网早已成为中国人获取信息的重要途径。如果解除对部分境外网站的封锁，可以扩宽中国网民的信息来源，是一件让民众受益的事。而李大同认为，“其实最大的受益者还是中国政府，他的形象会有所改善。如果奥运期间开放的话，奥运之后再封锁也没什么必要。因为你最敏感的时期都过去了，还封锁他干什么？为此还要背上被国际批评的恶名，有什么必要？如果开放了，我认为会就此开放下去。”
   
    李大同同时谈到关于放宽外国驻华记者采访限制的政策在奥运之后也会继续实行，当初定的期限只是“出于面子考虑”。但是关于放宽对互联网的新闻管制，以及解除对境外部分网站的封锁，还有待相关部门的官方证实。在问及放宽对国外网站的封锁，是否会影响对中国国内网站的管制，使得中国国内互联网的新闻环境更宽松一些时，李大同明确表示了他对此的怀疑：“国内网站就不存在封锁的问题了，它可以直接关闭。中国政府历来是内外有别的，对国内网站的控制我到认为，在奥运期间会强化。”

总之，莫如责难检查制度，仅在奥运会的时候！

顺便，很有意思注意：如果你搜寻"李大同谈奥运与互联网管制",有400个结果在Google，可是只有5个结果在百度。。。
然后，如果你要看这些网站，它们都是。。。不能得到的！！！只有一个BBS在哪里一个人复制这个文章。只有一个帖子回答：“骗人的啊！“。
无论如何，在将来，那个文章应该消失 或者可能那个网站会失去它的ICP号码（所有的网站提供内容，所以中国政府管理它们。如果你要一个网站在中国大陆，你需要一个"Internet Content Provider (ICP)"号码。
 
 
Sources:
China may relax Internet censorship during the Olympics
李大同谈奥运与互联网管制
 
 
Vocabulary:
责难 = zénàn = to censor
检查制度 = jiǎnchá zhìdù = censorship
检查 = jiǎnchá = to censor
广泛 = guǎngfàn = widely
播放 = bōfàng = to broadcast
莫如 = mò rú = it would be better
搜寻 = sōuxún = to search
文章 = wénzhāng = essay, article

中文

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.

"In fact, China Mobile prefers WCDMA, and was actually less willing [to construct a TD-SCDMA network than a WCDMA network]," the source said.

"There are many reasons for operators to compete for the WCDMA network," the source said. "One reason is that because WCDMA is the 3G standard in Europe, many foreigners will need a WCDMA network when they are in China. A more important reason is that Nokia and Motorola, which currently enjoy large percentages of China’s handset market, mainly produce 3G handsets that support WCDMA."

The decision to develop a homegrown 3G standard, instead of using one of the existing standards available, has always been a somewhat controversial issue in China. Most analysts agree that the main reason the Chinese government decided to develop a homegrown standard was to avoid patent fees and to have more control over the technology. Other analysts have voiced the opinion that national security and national pride were factors as well.
 
 
 

中国移动悲观关于TD-SCDMA

对不起，没有中文版因为我没有找到一个网页跟一样的内容。在中国新闻的网站，差不多所有的文章说他们很乐观关于TD-SCDMA。。。
如果你找到一个公平的网页，请告诉我
 
 
Source:
Interfax China

中文

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.

NASA / DOD / CAST

The Planetary Society’s Emily Lakdawalla compared Clementine imagery of the crater, at left, with Chang’e imagery at right.

The mission’s chief scientist, Ouyang Ziyuan, told the Beijing News that a new crater had been spotted on the Chang’e imagery - a crater that didn’t appear on the U.S. imagery. Lakdawalla determined that crater in question it wasn’t exactly new - instead, it appeared to be a crater that had been moved from one spot on the picture to another spot slightly south.

Lakdawalla, who knows her way around spacecraft photo databases as well as photo-retouching tools, hit upon the likeliest explanation for the gaffe. Often, surface features that show up on two strips of data have to be manually corrected to produce the finished image, due to subtle changes in perspective.

"You know that there should have been seams in that image, and I just did not look for them carefully at the time," Lakdawalla told me today.

She said the Chinese must have blended together the seams between the strips - misplacing the crater. The picture may be pretty, but it’s pretty much useless as a scientific product, Lakdawalla said.

The detective work came in for kudos from other space mythbusters. "Go check out her really amazing sleuthing," said Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait. "This is how it’s done, folks. Case closed!"

NBC News space analyst James Oberg, who has had his own experience with moon-hoax controversies, also saluted Lakdawalla’s efforts. Even though the Chinese insist that the first picture from Chang’e is scientifically accurate, Oberg said he expected the Chinese to "be forced to backtrack a bit" once they see the full evidence.

"This isn’t the first time that photo problems have created illusory ‘moon features,’" Oberg wrote in an e-mail. "The very first Soviet moon photo probe, Luna 3 in 1959, sent back images of the back side that included a view of what Moscow grandiosely called ‘the Soviet Mountains,’ stretching for hundreds of miles. It turned out to be an emulsion smear on the negative."

"For a ‘dead world,’ the moon sure continues to offer surprises to explorers," Oberg said, "even if many of the ’surprises’ are self-induced flaws in the exploration process!"

嫦娥一号公布的图片被网友证实拼接失误

2007年11月2日下午，一位名为“美的眼睛”的网友在上海网上天文台社区发表了一则题为《疑问：欧阳自远说的嫦娥月照上的新撞击坑》的帖子。

　　今天欧阳院士说出来我有点惊讶，但是图上确实很明显。刚才我又把我们的图和 GoogleMoon仔细比了一下，发现“新撞击坑”的说法问题很大。最可能是问题出在图片拼接环节。很可能有一方把图拼叉了。我去嫦娥版新发个帖子大家好好看看。

　　我的 WorldWind坏了下不了清晰的月面图，谁有的拿来也比一比。

　　局部：箭头所指是欧阳先生指出的新坑，直径约3km

　　疑问坑的局部

　　根据地形特征，从左向右推算（黄线），再从右向左推算（红线），结果发现走到中间错了位，嫦娥的两个坑对应的其实就是Google的一个坑。蓝线我怀疑是局部拼接线。!

　　到底是嫦娥把一个坑错位成两个坑，还是美国人把两个坑错位成了一个坑，倒是都有可能。唯最不可能就是“新撞击坑”之说。

　　请大家讨论，毕竟我的 GoogleMoon月图也不够清晰，如果大家同意我的观点，请有机会时向欧阳院士转述，或请他来直接看帖。

　　进一步证据表明更可能是嫦娥图像处理人员的失误，而不是 NASA。

　　看问题坑的南面有一个条索状物，在嫦娥图片中一劈为二了（红色箭头所指）。注意参照黄色箭头所指的地标。^

　　在这幅三维图里那个小坑的拼接是正确的：

　　只要是处理中的无心之失，那就只是一点小错误，哪里值得？

　　今天有时间又仔细看了一下，找到了完整的错位拼接线，长约一百多公里，错位约3公里半。倾向于是无心之失：

　　错位拼接线的大体位置：

网友skyhobby说：楼主太牛了.果然是嫦娥一号图像拼接失误.我用photoshop作了一个简单的移位,就和google moon上的图像一样了

 
 
Sources - 来源:
Moon photo mystery solved
嫦娥一号公布的图片被网友证实拼接失误

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。
 
 
 
Cross-Lingual Image Search
PanImages is a new search project coming out of the University of Washington that allows users to search for images in their native language and receive far more results than with traditional search.

Emerging search engines such as Like.com allow searches via image queries, but are far from becoming mainstream. Most image search today is conducted by an analysis of the metadata around the image. So an image search on Google for “flower” returns11.4 million results results that have the tag “flower” in the photo metadata - . But if you only speak Spanish, a search for “flores” returns just 2.2 million results.

Search engines are slowly beginning to allow cross-language queries to return more results to people who speak less popular languages. Google’s effort launched earlier this year, handles just a dozen major languages and does not address image search.

PanImages, by contrast, supports over 300 languages. Users simply type in the query and the language they are speaking and see a result set that includes translations. Clicking on a result returns Google Image and Flickr search results for that term.

The data itself is still somewhat thin, and users are asked to add translations when the site doesn’t already know what you mean. But the early results are useful, particularly if you speak a fairly obscure language. An images search for the Zulu word for refrigerator returns just two results. A similar search on PanImages returns 472,000 results.

 
 
Vocabulary - 词汇:
搜寻 = sōu xún = search
机械 = jī xiè = machine
搜寻机械 = sōu xún jī xiè = search engine
允许 = yǔnxǔ = to allow
数据 = shùjù = data
分析 = 分析 = analysis, to analyse
结果 = jiéguǒ = result
 
 
Sources - 来源:
PanImages.org (English)
PanImages.org (中文)
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