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Airtel Bringing iPhone 3GS to India, China Mobile Wants in on iPhone and iPad
Mar 20th
While it’s easy to think the iPhone 3GS is everywhere now, TiPb still gets email asking when it will be in India, and on the largest carrier in the largest market in the world, China Mobile.
Well Macworld tells us Airtel has finally announced they’ll be bringing the iPhone 3GS to India:
New Delhi, March 19, 2010 : Bharti Airtel and Apple have reached an agreement to bring iPhone 3GS, the fastest most powerful iPhone yet, to India in the coming months. For information please visit www.airtel.in/iphone3gs. For more information on iPhone, please visit www.apple.com/iphone .
Meanwhile, Financial Times [registration required] reports that China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou is still interested as well, providing Apple addresses their special radio needs:
“including TD-SCDMA is not that hard to do – RIM is doing it”. But he added that Apple had not yet responded to his proposal.
MacRumors points out that while China Mobile is a monster, their 3G customer base remains small, but should grow from 3.4 to 10 million this year.
Either way, these represent two holes in Apple’s iPhone coverage and it’s nice to see at least one of them getting filled.
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Nexus One Event Canceled in China
Feb 24th
Well folks it seems that the relationship between China and Google has gotten even lower. According to Android Central, Google has reportedly canceled a Nexus One developer event in Beijing. Apparently Google was set to introduce the Nexus One along with other latest and greatest Android handsets to Chinese developers. Reuters is reporting that the event is still going to be happening in Hong Kong and Taiwan, so it is very likely Google canceled this event out of principle. Overall, it is not immediately clear how the standoff between China and Google will effect Android adoption in China, but I for one am not hopeful.
Source: Android Central and Reuters
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China: We Won’t Limit Android
Jan 27th
Fears that Android handsets might not find their way into China have been calmed. Reuters is reporting today that China will not try to limit use of Android. So long as the platform complies with Chinese law, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology spokesman Zhu Hongren said China would not place limits.
Two handsets were scheduled to be launched last week on China Unicom’s network but were delayed over the cyber-attack/Cold War between Google and China. As of now, no announcements have come from Google, Motorola, or Samsung as to when we’ll see them.
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Pair of Android Handsets Postponed Amidst China Dustup
Jan 19th
Two Android-based handsets expected to be released this week have been put on ice for the time being. Thanks to the recent cyber attacks and a cold war between Google and China, these two phones have been postponed.
“The launch we have been working on with China Unicom has been postponed,” a Google spokesperson told the BBC.
The two phones slated for release tomorrow were from Motorola and Samsung. As of right now, there has been no other official word from Google, nor the two handset makers. For those of you not familiar with the situation, Google has accused China of a malicious cyber attack thought to target the e-mail accounts of human rights activists working in China.
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White House Throws Its Support Behind Google in China Standoff
Jan 14th
White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs said today that President Obama is supportive of
“We support [Google's] action … in a decision to no longer censor searches that happen using the [Google] platform.” … “Our concern is with actions that threaten the universal rights of a free Internet.”
Today’s statements are an extension of the “serious concerns and questions” that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton alluded to
As we
This thing is far from over.
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China to Google: You’re Welcome Here Only If You Abide by Our Laws
Jan 14th
The country has issued a
According to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu, “The Chinese government administers the Internet according to law and we have explicit stipulations over what content can be spread on the Internet.” Simply put, Google’s refusal to censor content on China’s search engine is breaking the law, which probably won’t be tolerated.
Furthermore, Director of the State Council Information Office Wang Chen explains China’s rationale for censoring the Internet. “Effective guidance of public opinion on the Internet is an important way of protecting the security of online information,” he said. Well, that really depends on how you define “security of online information”; if you want to keep a piece of information secret from the government, tough luck.
Chen also commented on hacking: “China is a country being harmed by Internet hackers and is firmly opposed to hacking attacks.” But is the Chinese government allowed to use certain hacking methods in order to “guide the public opinion on the Internet”? China doesn’t say.
It’s very unlikely that China will yield on the matter of censorship, and what
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China Censors Google’s Threat to Pull Out of China
Jan 13th
A quick recap: Yesterday, in a lengthy blog post,
The targets were the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. As a result of these attacks — along with Google’s discovery of already compromised Google accounts — the company has decided to not censor its search engine, even if it means being kicked out of China.
The Fallout Has Begun
Here’s what she had to say in a brief statement:
“We have been briefed by Google on these allegations, which raise very serious concerns and questions. We look to the Chinese government for an explanation. The ability to operate with confidence in cyberspace is critical in a modern society and economy. I will be giving an address next week on the centrality of internet freedom in the 21st century, and we will have further comment on this matter as the facts become clear.”
As with most statements, it doesn’t reveal all that much. However, we now know for sure that the government has been aware of the situation and will be specifically addressing the issue next week, allowing for the government to gather more information and likely talk to the Chinese in private.
In China, the Google News Is Being Censored
How the news is being interpreted within China is a tricky subject, because it’s getting suppressed in the communist nation. According to a
One quote from the article really caught my attention. It’s from an 18-year-old Chinese law student:
“The government should give people the right to see what they want online,” said the woman, Bing, who withheld her full name for fear that it might cause her problems at school. “The government can’t always tell lies to the people.”
At the same time, China’s Internet industry has been shaken to its core, according to
It’s probably safe to say that no Chinese Internet company can match Google’s technology or innovations, and losing access to that is an issue. It also has a lot of investments and partnerships that could be affected by a pullout.
This news will continue to leak to the Chinese people, despite the censors. How much information they got, or what explanation the government would give if Google.cn were to simply disappear, is still unknown.
The pressure has begun to build on China, and it’s not going to go away anytime soon.
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