7 posts and columns on Aaron Back

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China Journalist Group Hit With Cyberattack

in News on April 2, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

An international journalists association in Beijing said Friday that its Web site was the target of cyberattacks, the latest in a string of incidents that have affected foreign journalists in China. The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said in a statement that it disabled its Web site temporarily to deal with the problem after it experienced persistent attacks over two days involving a flood of traffic that overwhelmed its servers.

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Chinese Users Report New Google Disruptions

in News on March 30, 2010 at 7:56 am PT

China’s government appeared to block almost all searches by Chinese users on Google Inc. sites Tuesday, sharply escalating the battle with the U.S. Internet giant a week after it stopped obeying Beijing’s censorship rules. Users in cities across China starting late Tuesday afternoon reported that all searches–even of terms as mundane as “happy”–on Google’s Hong Kong site produced an error message saying the results page couldn’t be opened.

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China Warns Google

in News on March 12, 2010 at 8:25 am PT

A Chinese minister made the government’s strongest statement yet on Google Inc.’s future in the country, warning that the U.S. Internet company “will have to bear the consequences” if its follows through on its pledge to stop censoring its Chinese search site.

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Chinese Video Takes Aim at Online Censorship

in News on February 12, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

The latest battle over Internet freedom in China is playing out in an online movie that pits an armored blue beast and his band of antiauthoritarian rogues against a sinister force called Harmony that seeks to clean up the Web.

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Baidu to Enter Online Video Market

in News on January 7, 2010 at 9:40 am PT

Chinese search engine Baidu Inc. is entering a field that is quickly becoming crowded and highly competitive in China’s online video market. Baidu is launching a new business unit that it envisions will work on a similar business model to Hulu, an advertising-supported video site in the U.S. that has licensed, copyrighted content from several television broadcasters.

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China's Big Brands Tackle Web Sales

in News on December 1, 2009 at 9:10 am PT

Li Ning Co., China’s leading sportswear company, is betting that selling sneakers and clothing online will give it an edge against giant rivals like Nike Inc. and Adidas AG, an example of how established consumer companies in China are finally starting to embrace the Web after years of ceding electronic commerce to Internet upstarts.

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Microsoft Emphasizes the Real Deal

in News on October 23, 2009 at 10:22 am PT

Microsoft’s big launch of the new Windows 7 operating system on Friday in Beijing was much like its launches around the world: a huge, boisterous demonstration of new features such as being able to share music across multiple computers in one home.