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Longtime readers of this blog will recall I have devoted extensive time to the various woes of foreign (read: American) Internet companies in China, covering both their business and political woes. (Recap of previous posts here.) Now we've reached the next stage in this story. Rebecca MacKinnon has written about the recent announcement that ...

Periodically journalist friends ask me who can comment on China Internet issues. The list of people I send them to is pretty short. Someone who's always near the top is Sam Flemming of CIC, a company in Shanghai that specializes in watching what is unfolding in the China blogosphere and forums and analyzing it for corporate clients.CIC has ...

As the owner of a Powerbook I recently went through Apple's battery recall. One of my two batteries was affected. I filled out the online form and within a week a new battery was delivered with a postage-paid return envelope for the old one. Crisp, clean and efficient. Of course, Apple thinks I live in the US and sent the replacement to my ...

Microsoft (or Apple) may want to get on the horn to the folks at Xinhua, who apparently haven't got their digital music player models entirely sorted out. An article on Microsoft's licensing deal with Universal music for the Zune music player included this photo of ''black and white Zune digital music players'': Oops.Copy of the picture here, in ...

Is YouTube a time bomb for Google in China? November 6, 2006 On the heels of last week's Internet Governance Forum in Athens, an event that yielded some memorable statements, I thought it might be worth pondering a situation infested with unroosted chickens: Google's recent purchase of goliath Internet ...

Imagethief was interested to read today all about the interesting things oozing out of the Internet Governance Forum current taking place in Athens. First, of course, US Internet firms are, as always, under pressure for their complicity in the Chinese government's censorship regime. The usual arguments are being thoroughly rehashed.However it ...

Imagethief is back in Beijing. I survived my holiday with my body intact, but my bank account much damaged, which is pretty much the result of any vacation I take back to Singapore or the United States. As usual, I've arrived back in the office to hundreds of e-mails, which have to be prioritized, sorted, read and then dumped thoughtfully and ...

Time was short today, so you've been spared the mooncake rant, the cultural relativism rant and a few other choice in-development rants. But I did notice a few articles that I though I'd pass along to readers so you can keep outta trouble.Just because you're illegal doesn't mean you shouldn't look goodFunny post from Sam Flemming, who tracks an ...

Lessons from the Chinabounder caseSeptember 12, 2006A month ago, in a post I wrote on my Imagethief blog about the pecking order of foreigners in China, an anonymous commenter asked me what I thought of a blog at chinabounder.blogspot.com (currently closed to the public, so don't rush over). I hadn't heard of it, so I went to have a look. It ...

Also via the suddently prolific David Wolf, BusinessWeek's Einhorn tells Foxconn's Terry Gou to suck it up and hire a good flack:[The crisis has left] some people wondering who's giving you advice. I spoke to one exec from a big multinational that outsources production to Hon Hai (can't use the name, unfortunately) who says he was ''shocked'' by ...