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China: Lots Of Net Users, Little Money Impact

The Internet using population of China topped 253 million according to the Chinese agency tasked with tracking that and other online issues.

China Cracking Down On Online Dissidents

Chinese police have arrested a well-known online dissident for violating his terms of probation, as the country seeks to crackdown on critics in the run up to the Olympic Games.Du Daobin, from the central province of Hebei, received a suspended sentence for what the Chinese government says was subversion in 2004 and was detained by police for posting online essays in support of another dissident.

Facebook Encountering Setbacks In China

So much for global domination.  Less than two weeks after Facebook targeted the Chinese market, users' problems with its Chinese-language site point to either serious regional outages or government censorship.

Global Online Population To Reach 1.8 Billion

The number of global Internet users will increase 44 percent between 2007 and 2012, reaching 1.8 billion users, according to JupiterResearch.In 2012 one quarter of the world's population will access the Internet on a regular basis. The growth in online populations of emerging markets will increase at double-digit rates over the next five years, leading to the expansion of the global online population.The report says that online penetration levels will only reach levels the U.S. had in 2000 and at a minimum will lag behind developed nations by five years.

China Maybe-Possibly Investigating Microsoft

The U.S. government has taken a few looks; the European Union more or less threw several fits.  It wouldn't be surprising if China also raised antitrust issues with Microsoft, then, and there's something of an argument taking place over whether this will happen.

Congressman Says China Hacked His Computers

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said that four computers in his office had been compromised in 2006 and that computers used by other members of Congress and by the House Foreign Affairs Committee also were hacked.

Music Industry Warns Baidu About Piracy

The Chinese music industry issued a warning to the nation's most popular search engine Baidu saying it risked losing advertising for allowing music to be pirated."Resolutely countering Baidu, the largest and most incorrigible purveyor of pirated music in China, has become a common goal of the music industry," said Qu Jingming, director-general of the Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC).

Cisco Says It Does Not Help China Censor Web

Cisco Systems Inc. defended itself against a human rights group's claims that the company aided Chinese officials in building a "great firewall" to block Internet user's access to anti-government content.

Google China Helping In Earthquake Aid

Google China has launched a multitude of help efforts for people looking for information in relation to the disastrous May 12th earthquake centered in Sichuan province. Some days ago, the Google China homepage linked to a special Google Maps layer, as previously mentioned:

Earthquake In China Unnoticed By Google?

This article was going to be a quick roundup of Google's response to the earthquake in China - mention a donations page here, a map there, done.  As it turns out, though, the company didn't provide much material.