Chinese authorities have started investigating Microsoft’s market position in the country for abuse. Microsoft has monopoly not only in China but all over the world due to its Windows operating system.
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Two US congressmen Frank Wolf and Christopher Smith have revealed that their office computers were hacked by hackers from China.
According to the statement released four of Wolf’s Capitol Hill machines were compromised in August 2006.
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Recently China’s largest search engine Baidu has come under fire from music industry accusing it of supporting pirated music.
Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. It attracts at least 5.5 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. in its report has said that China and US are the leading sources of hacking attacks, especially against Windows systems.
Akamai provides distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery.
Just when we thought the DVD format war is over, we have got new player Red-ray and this time from China.
Blu-ray may have defeated HD-DVD but now it faces another challenge from Chinese made Red-ray DVD.
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Global Secure Systems, an internet security firm has reported that spammers are exploiting the tragedies that struck Burma and China recently.
They are sending phishing emails and Trojans disguised as news reports and donation requests to help people affected by the tragedies.
According to a China based consulting firm CCID, the commercial Linux market saw 22.6 percent increase in sales over the past year.
As manufacturers broaden their distribution channels, Linux is expanding out of its traditional markets around major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
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According to an annual report issued by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on Intellectual Property (IP) rights violation, Pakistan and India are in top nine.
Other countries in top nine include China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Israel, Thailand and Venezuela.
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Some 3,500 counterfeit Chinese Cisco networking components worth $3.5 million have been recovered by FBI according to a statement.
Components included pirated versions of Cisco Systems routers as well as switches, interface converters and wide area network interface cards.
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After Belgium it’s India’s turn to point fingers at China for hacking and cyber crimes. According to Times of India, the country’s largest circulation daily newspaper, Indian websites particularly Government owned are under attack from China.
It’s been going on for the past one year and attacks are increasing day by day.
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