Owen Fletcher - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Owen Fletcher

Article | 29/07/2009 'China's YouTube' pries path through profit puzzle

Youku.com, China's leading video sharing Web site, faces a challenge shared by YouTube and other rivals worldwide. The Web site has worked to expand i...

Article | 29/07/2009 IBM hosts applications in cloud for Chinese vendors

A new IBM product that allows data centers to host online applications for software vendors has been deployed in a Chinese technology park and could l...

Article | 24/07/2009 Several Chinese Android phones due in Europe this year

At least three Chinese companies have put Google's Android operating system on mobile phones they say will launch in Europe this year.

Article | 21/07/2009 Chinese news sites go down after reports on gov't scandal

Two of China's most popular technology news Web sites went offline Tuesday after carrying news reports that linked the son of China's president to a c...

Article | 20/07/2009 World of Warcraft awaits China's approval to relaunch

The relaunch of the popular online game World of Warcraft in China, where it has already been offline for six weeks, still faces an indefinite delay a...

Article | 20/07/2009 China's Internet lockdown hurts local e-businesses

China has started restoring some Internet access to a province where it was blocked after deadly ethnic riots two weeks ago, but the outage has alread...

Article | 17/07/2009 China's Internet users outnumber U.S. population

China's Internet users have surpassed the U.S. population in number, and more Chinese than ever are using e-commerce and accessing the Web through mob...

Article | 16/07/2009 Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China

The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like sof...

Article | 15/07/2009 China bans shock treatment for Internet addiction

China has banned the use of shock therapy to treat Internet addiction after its use at one hospital sparked nationwide controversy.

Article | 15/07/2009 Turkish government site hacked amid spat with China

An attacker who defaced the Web site of Turkey's embassy in China on Monday left behind a pro-China note as the two countries worked through a diploma...

Article | 10/07/2009 Botnets infect fewer computers in China

The number of botnets and of computers controlled by them in China has fallen in recent years, though the country remains a top host for the networks ...

Article | 10/07/2009 Chinese 'Web addicts' get boot camp, therapy

Tao Ran, the founder of a youth rehabilitation center on a Beijing army base, has made it his mission to treat teenagers who are antisocial, doing poo...

Article | 8/07/2009 China's grip on Web prevents dissent on deadly riots

Beijing's Internet clampdown appears to have succeeded in shutting out dissenting views over deadly riots in western China that claimed at least 156 l...

Article | 3/07/2009 Suit over China's Web filter to target Lenovo, Acer, Sony

A U.S. company will seek legal action against Lenovo, Acer and Sony next week over their shipment in China of controversial software that the company ...

Article | 3/07/2009 Apple may be exempt from China's Web filter mandate

Apple appears to be exempt from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country.