The 7.2 Richter scale earthquake in Southern Taiwan caused the disconnection of the Trans-Pacific line, linking Asia with America. Internet access slowed to a crawl since yesterday. It was reported that connection will not return to normal for weeks!
This episode greatly impacted those that host their Internet services outside of China (usually in the US). […]
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Taiwan Earthquake and China Internet Connection
Published December 28th, 2006 in China and Online. 0 CommentsThank to Louie who tip me off, I was not aware that the site was down for a good two weeks. My hosting provider moved their server and missed informing me.
Business was challenging and that leave me with little time or energy to update. Good things are happening though … Hope to update soon.
Before anyone can browse a few blogspot pages after they were discovered to be unblocked, they are blocked again.
Same goes for Wikipedia. This happened as I was browsing! One moment loading, the next moment, connect was reset.
Just like many rules, regulation, enforcement in China, they are changed and re-interpretated regularly.
Following the unblocking of Blogspot, Wikipedia is now also unblocked and accessible from within China. Seems like China is becoming more “open”.
Now if they would just unblock Technorati and Wordpress.com.
Although eBay is not doing well in China, and by proxy PayPal (贝宝)， this is something to cheer about.
This has been a long time in the waiting. A big boost to ecommerce in Singapore no doubt.
Singapore badly need a payment system to complete with those pricey solution from eNETs and WorldPay. If PayPal get their […]
Ebay is out of China
Published September 30th, 2006 in Business Models, China and Online. 0 CommentsCame across this article that eBay is getting out of China. The report indicate that eBay is planning to sell the eBay and PayPal business in China to Tom.com.
Those following online business in China may recall that eBay brought Eachnet about 2 years ago making the founder (forgotten his name) one of the riches guy […]
As usual I was surfing around and clicked on a blogspot blog. The usual drill is,
open the blogspot blog in another Firefox tab,
copy the URL into a proxy,
browse the site through a proxy.
A few minutes ago, something extraordinary happened, the blogspot sites loads!
Has China unblock all blogspot sites?
A quick check on WordPress.com, it is still […]
Can’t believe it. The famous Nigeria scan is now in Singapore - complete with UOB and Government of Singapore.
If only entrepreneur are as creative…
Have fun!
Good day,
My name is Mr Jacky Taichi. I train and work as an external auditor for the United Overseas Bank (UOB), working as part of a bigger team that covers the […]
Compare this to this. Guess which site I read more?
I don’t get it why SPH is blocking readers at the door. I click on a link, see the sign in and leave immediately.
Frankly I never care about their news now that I’m outside of Singapore. Any news of importance are cover elsewhere too, why go […]
You don’t want to tell customer to get lost
Published June 20th, 2006 in Entrepreneur and Online. 1 CommentTrust me.
I was reading Cobalt Paladin’s Corporate Junk. It is on blogspot which is blocked in China and I couldn’t reply. (Actually I didn’t want to sign in over the proxy.) So I’m posting a reply here.
The incident is typical, all in the day job as an entrepreneur. What I want to comment […]
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