China

I caught up with our own Thomas Crampton last week in Istanbul. Thomas runs our teams across Asia and one of the big events coming up this year is the Shanghai World Expo.  To help inform our work and our clients who will participate in some way or another, Thomas developed some great research on the current buzz throughout Chinese social media on the Expo. I had a chance to ask him about what he found:

Google Inc.'s CEO said Wednesday the Internet search company is in active negotiations with the Chinese government and expects some resolution in its dispute with Beijing soon.

Speaking at a media conference in the Middle East, Eric Schmidt declined to provide specifics or predict how long the discussions would last, saying that the company has decided not to publicize details of the talks.

El gobierno chino ha admitido que mantiene un "canal abierto" de diálogo con el gigante tecnológico Google, que en enero amenazó con abandonar el país asiático si Pekín mantenía su censura sobre contenidos en Internet. "Las autoridades competentes de China y las corporaciones internacionales de Internet han abierto un canal de comunicación", ha asegurado el portavoz de turno de la cancillería china, Qin Gang, al ser preguntado en rueda de prensa sobre las reuniones con Google.

The wait is over. Cisco Systems on Tuesday finally took the lid off its hype machine to reveal ... a new router. Cisco is positioning its CRS-3 Carrier Routing System as the foundation of the next-generation Internet that will pave the way for rapid growth of video transmissions, mobile devices, and new online services.

Four out of five adults view Internet access as their fundamental right. So says a new BBC World Service global poll of 27,000 adults across 26 countries.

Conducted by GlobeScan, the poll reveals that 87 percent of survey participants who use the Internet feel web access should be the "fundamental right of all people." Seventy-one percent of non-Internet users agreed with that statement. South Korea, Mexico and China saw the highest percentage of users who feel Net access is a fundamental right.

Some Windows PC users may hope the Energizer bunny didn't keep going and going. It turns out the Energizer DUO USB battery charger is a vehicle for attacks on PCs, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team.

US-CERT researchers said Friday that the software that installs with the Energizer charger contains a Trojan horse that gives malicious hackers a back door into Windows machines.

by Jeff Wilson
I. GONDWANALAND, MIGRATION, AND DINOSAURS

by Jeff Wilson
I. GONDWANALAND, MIGRATION, AND DINOSAURS

by Jeff Wilson
I. GONDWANALAND, MIGRATION, AND DINOSAURS

Le quedan dos ochomiles, el Shisha Pangma y el Annapurna, inicialmente por ese orden. Un plan para tres meses con la ilusión de convertirse en la primera mujer que corona los 14 ochomiles del planeta. La lucha es con la surcoreana Oh Eun-Sun, a la que le falta el mítico Annapurna, y la austriaca Gerlinde Kalterbrunnen. No es tarea fácil y más difícil se lo pusieron a Edurne Pasaban las autoridades chinas cuando le comunicaron el martes por la noche, 24 horas antes de partir, que le deniegan el permiso para escalar el Shisha Pangma.