China eyes 500 million web users
A top Chinese official has said the nation's online population, already the largest in the world, is expected to exceed 500 million in the next two to three years.
A top Chinese official has said the nation's online population, already the largest in the world, is expected to exceed 500 million in the next two to three years.
Internet
Mar 25, 2010
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The number of web users in China has surged to 618 million, a government agency said Thursday, underscoring the rapid growth of online connectivity in the country with the world's largest Internet population.
Internet
Jan 16, 2014
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A firewall is the safety barrier between a computer network and the outside world. Individuals, companies and large organizations alike rely on a firewall being robust enough to fend off hackers attempting to break into a ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 16, 2010
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The number of Internet users in China, already the world's largest online market, hit 477 million at the end of March, a senior government official was quoted by state media as saying Monday.
Internet
May 16, 2011
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China has once again surprised researchers by unleashing what has been dubbed its "Great Cannon" – a cyber weapon that has in recent weeks brought down several websites including the Github software code repository and ...
Internet
Apr 15, 2015
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Researchers have found that the "Great Firewall" technology that controls internet traffic entering and leaving China is not merely an apparatus that statically blocks traffic. It also actively sends probes to other machines ...
Internet
Apr 19, 2016
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When outspoken professor Qiao Mu posted his resignation letter on a popular Chinese messaging app, sympathetic readers tapped their phone screens to send him money, leaving him with a 20,000 yuan ($3,000) payday.
Internet
Jul 27, 2017
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China's Internet suffered a massive breakdown as traffic was routed to an overseas site linked to the banned religious group Falun Gong—a fiasco a cyber-monitoring group Wednesday blamed on the country's own censors.
Internet
Jan 22, 2014
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Academic publisher Springer Nature said Wednesday it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government, amid a push by Beijing to tighten controls on information from outside the ...
Internet
Nov 1, 2017
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The number of Internet users in China has risen to nearly 650 million, authorities said over the weekend, as the world's largest online population continues to rise.
Internet
Jan 26, 2015
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