According to here, China is in the process of making a big change to their transit systems. They want to build many train buses that will run on the side of the road, but the train buses will glide over any car that parks on the side of the road! The Chinese transit experts must have had ways to make this idea works without endangering the commuters and the people with cars, and this is why they are in the process of making this futuristic change to their transit systems. What do you think about this futuristic idea for a transit system? Source.
Many sources say that Google may leave China on April 10th of 2010. My utterly irresponsible prediction is that even Google really does pull out of China on indicated date, it will be back in business with China although when will be is hard to say. China is hard for foreign businesses like Google to strive as the country is prioritizing Chinese companies over foreign companies. For an example, I had read from many news sources online in which that I had forgotten the source owners, those sources claim China has over censored foreign companies such as Google, but somewhat is easy going with Chinese companies such as Baidu; this strategy is popular with Chinese government may have to do with the fear of foreign invasion of a country’s economy.
China is a country that has been invaded by foreigners by many times in its history if one followed Chinese history closely. Economy is what made a country although other areas are as just important! Without a strong economy, a country cannot fund its war machines! Subsequently, a country cannot explore innovation and be bounded by foreign demands. This is why United States should only rely on capitalism with moderation in which I mean every system either most excellent or worst needs regulations to prevent extreme unique chaos from happening. Yes, we all know how it’s so important that US government should stay out of businesses and let the invisible hand does its magic and to soothe people from worrying of Big Brother’s cynical agenda, but we should also support a strategy where US government watches closely how foreign businesses operate within the country to protect US economy.
Google leaving China is a mistake in my opinion, because Google will lose its presence within China, and when Google decides to come back into China, it would be like starting from scratch. Google’s reputation for standing up to China is going to be greatly improved outside of China, but as if Google needs a reputation boost? Morally though, Google has done correctly since it’s bravely saying no to over censored, especially when it comes to human rights! Business wise, Google may see it has to cope with losing a small footing <or a big footing as one could not predict the unpredictable China> within the world. Don’t we all have to wonder, will Google’s competitors do the same?
Over censored could limit innovation as the potential for anything is being contained within a firewall, but without some common sense censors begged a breakdown of any healthy system. A personal opinion of mine, and it should not be viewed as a political point for anyone since I emphasize opinion is just one’s rant; all other technological points should be somewhat valid as facts with common sense would be hard to fictionalize; and predictions should not be taken as facts since when did I have a crystal ball that could tell how to get rich quick? Contradictory? Not really, just bold words make noisy reading!
In a gutsy move that may make the Chinese government to allow Google operate an unfiltered search engine in China. Google is boldly announcing that if it fails to negotiate with the Chinese government, the company may have to completely shut down Google.cn. In my opinion, China is thriving because of outside investments that pour into the country, and Google is one of those major investors that China probably hate to see leaving the country. I could be wrong, but I think China is going to allow Google operate a non-censored search engine just like Google Search in USA. Source.
Although Google’s ambitions are to scan the world’s books and digitizing them all have met with a sudden strong reaction among Chinese publishers in China which is leading to more litigations, Google is not yet to give up on the idea of scanning the world’s books at all! Instead, Google is going to negotiate with the Chinese publishers and hope that things will be ironed out! In US, there are publishers and big companies like Microsoft and Amazon all want to stop Google from dominating the digital book world, and now China publishers are trying to foul Google’s plan. If Google is not dealing with China smartly, it may find other countries hard to persuade in allowing Google in scanning their books also. In my opinion, I think Google needs to settle the US problem first, and if Google is successfully dealing with US, and then China next, I think scanning the world’s books won’t be impossible. If otherwise, I think Google is going to have a really tough time to meet its goal. Source
Since Android OS debut, many companies launched their own smart phones based off of Android OS. At CES 2010, Lenovo shows off its new Android OS smart phone known as LePhone. Lenovo is going to release LePhone in China before US. Check out the awesome specs for LePhone here. Watch the reviews about it on a YouTube videos after the jump.
The Internet environment within China is getting stricter, and the Chinese government warns its citizens that the Internet can only get even more stricter this year. Chinese people can report on pornographic and harmful websites to the government, and in return they receive rewards in money. The authorities within China have arrested 5000 people in 2009 for Internet pornography. Chinese government is fearing that the country may slip into chaos if the Internet is not censoring. Around 350 million people or more are using the Internet in China. More.
OK, U.S. is still the mightiest in military and technology, but it seems China is catching up in all facets of technology. How about now? China can now claim that it has the fastest train in the world. By 2012, China will have a complete 42 high-speed lines. China’s new high-speed train can carry people at 245 mph. Compare that to the current fastest train in U.S. which is going at 70 mph. Source.
It seems China is still a big user of Windows XP. Just recently, China found Microsoft guilty by violating the intellectual property of a local company over Windows XP matter. The ruling based on the fact that Microsoft have been using Chinese character fonts for Windows XP without licensing. A local company, Zhongyi Electronics, brought the case to court and won, the court rules that Microsoft should stop selling Windows XP in China. Microsoft said the company will appeal the ruling. Source.
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