Hong Kong

Canada's Research in Motion and South Korea's SK Telecom announced Tuesday the launch of corporate service for the BlackBerry Bold smart phone, which will be available in South Korea on the country's biggest wireless network.

The two companies said the device was expected to be available on the market by the end of the month. Plans were to target both multinational and domestic companies, it said.

There's no shortage of U.S. Internet companies that have failed to replicate their successes at home in Chinese cyberspace. Despite throwing considerable resources at its Chinese-language operation, for instance, Google (GOOG) is a distant No. 2 in online search [BusinessWeek.com, 8/30/07] behind local champion Baidu.com (BIDU). In online auctions, eBay (EBAY) threw in the towel [BusinessWeek.com, 12/19/06] in December 2006 after failing to dislodge the market leader, Hangzhou-based Taobao, and joined forces with Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's TOM Online.

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the Internet would eventually help eliminate "the last constraints we have" and spark a software-writing revolution.

Gates, speaking at a forum to mark the 10th anniversary of the software giant's Asian research arm, added that technology currently being developed would transform the way people use computers, expanding their ability to interact with the machines.

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the Internet would eventually help eliminate "the last constraints we have" and spark a software-writing revolution.

Gates, speaking at a forum to mark the 10th anniversary of the software giant's Asian research arm, added that technology currently being developed would transform the way people use computers, expanding their ability to interact with the machines.

The hype that began with Apple's iPhone 3G launch Friday continued through the weekend and was almost as loud on Monday, with Apple adding to the fire. The company said it sold more than one million iPhone 3Gs and users downloaded more than 10 million applications from its App Store.

While the Beijing Olympics were expected to usher in a period of greater media freedom in China, as the final countdown for the Games nears, the vise on the media is getting tighter. That's the conclusion of a report released on July 7 by Human Rights Watch, entitled "China's Forbidden Zones, Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other 'Sensitive' Stories."

Like the real world, the virtual world of the Web has some dangerous addresses. A new report, released Wednesday by security technology firm McAfee, says Hong Kong's .hk domain has jumped over 28 others to become the most dangerous domain on the Web.

The report, titled Mapping the Mal Web Revisited, found that 19.2 percent of all Web sites ending in the .hk domain were a security threat for Web users. China, with a .cn domain, is in second place with more than 11 percent of its sites risky.

Tokelau Improves Over Last Year

Like the real world, the virtual world of the Web has some dangerous addresses. A new report, released Wednesday by security technology firm McAfee, says Hong Kong's .hk domain has jumped over 28 others to become the most dangerous domain on the Web.

The report, titled Mapping the Mal Web Revisited, found that 19.2 percent of all Web sites ending in the .hk domain were a security threat for Web users. China, with a .cn domain, is in second place with more than 11 percent of its sites risky.

Tokelau Improves Over Last Year