Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

China unveils world's first facial recognition ATM

A TV report on the ATM. (Internet photo)
The public in China will soon be able to withdraw cash from automatic teller machines that identify users through facial recognition technology, according to Chinese media.

Wednesday, 8 April 2015

HTC's bigger and better One M9 launches in China

HTC clearly gets China's obsession with large-screen phones. Following the plastic 5.5-inch One E9+, the company is back with the metallic M9+ which, as you can tell from the name, is essentially the M9 on steroids. We've already seen most of the specs in an earlier leak:

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

HTC's beefier M9 for China leaks with sharper screen and fingerprint reader



Rumor of a beefier HTC One M9 variant -- aka "M9+" -- had been floating around for some time, but we've remained skeptical until we came across the latest batch of leaks. Better yet, some of these are backed up by an official (poorly made but actually legit) Beijing launch invitation sent out earlier today; see for yourself after the break.

Monday, 23 March 2015

China's tech giants are getting into the electric car business

Google and Tesla are squaring off against each other for the future of self-driving cars, so it's no surprise to see China's tech giants follow suit.

China’s Internet Boom Starts to Fade




Bloomberg's Best Photos 2014


Just as the Nasdaq Composite Index surges to the cusp of the record high set during the dot-com-era, the excitement about China’s Internet boom is fading.

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10

 Microsoft Corp is making its biggest push into the heavily pirated Chinese consumer computing market this summer by offering free upgrades to Windows 10 to all Windows users, regardless of whether they are running genuine copies of the software.
The move is an unprecedented attempt by Microsoft to get legitimate versions of its software onto machines of the hundreds of millions of Windows users in China. Recent studies show that three-quarters of all PC software is not properly licensed there.

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Chinese Bitcoin exchange Bter will pay back users after losing $1.75 million in cyberattack

Bitcoin by zcopley on Flickr

China-based Bitcoin exchange Bter has announced that it will continue to operate its service and pay back all its users in time, following acyberattack that saw the company lose $1.75 millionin cryptocurrency to hackers.

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Amazon sucks it up in China, opens a store on Alibaba’s marketplace

Amazon sucks it up in China, opens a store on Alibaba's marketplaceHere’s the weirdest China ecommerce news so far this year – and possibly all year: Amazon just opened up a store on Alibaba’s marketplace, Tmall. The shop (pictured above), which is currently selling a limited selection of what the Amazon China store offers, like food, women’s shoes, and children’s wear, is at Amazon.tmall.com (hat-tip to the Wall Street Journal for spotting this).

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Microsoft To Shed More Jobs In China

microsoft-logoIs there yet another economic crisis looming on the horizon? Perhaps, especially when we hear of Microsoft being tipped to shut down not one, but actually a couple of plants over in China – which would end up with 9,000 job cuts along the way

Monday, 6 October 2014

Billions of dollars are spending by USA on cyber war with China

According to the head of the FBI, the Chinese hackers special feature is  aggressiveness with the help of which they are trying to crack the security system  of the United States.
China pursues an aggressive cyber war against the United States, which is estimated to cost America billions of dollars. It was said by FBI Director James Comey in the program CBS «60 Minutes» on the 5th of October,2014. According to him, the American big companies can be divided into two categories: those who had been under cyber attacks from China, and those who do not know about that there are targets of cyber attacks from China.