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If you don't know the story, you can read up on the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal (and again in the Journal here, with more focus on the backlash for Skype). In a nutshell, the story is that the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which focuses on Internet, free-speech and censorship issues, released evidence that TOM-Skype, the joint ...

Seeing all the headlines about how China now has more Internet users than the US has given Imagethief the same unpleasant feeling that he gets when he runs a strip of nylon cordura between his teeth. Imagethief has no problem with China having more Internet users than the US. China has four times more people than the US, so this is as it should ...

An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today on some things that American technology companies are doing in addition to donations to help out with quake relief. Google, Microsoft and IBM are all using their technology in various ways to help out:Acting largely on its own initiative, the mostly China-based Google team built an Internet ...

Another year, another congressional hearing at which American technology and Internet firms are taken to task for propping up the Golden Shield. This time it's Cisco taking it on the chin, thanks to the emergence of an internal presentation in which they apparently discuss the business opportunities presented by the Great Firewall. I won't get ...

In January, CNNIC, the organization that administers the Chinese portion of the Internet, released its 21st Statistical Survery Report. This was a big deal because it included the startling fact that at the end of 2007 China had a whopping 210 million Internet users, representing 53% year-on-year growth. This was duly reported far and wide. In ...

From CNET: Tom Lantos, the Democratic congressman and Holocaust survivor who used his moral authority to pressure Yahoo and other American Internet companies about their behavior in China, has died. Lantos famously --and perhaps a bit unfairly-- referred to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callahan as ''moral pygmies'' in the most ...

One of the hallmarks of bad China journalism is reacting hysterically when China is found to be doing things that everyone else is doing. Unfortunately, it happens rather a lot, presumably because hysteria shifts more units than thoughtful, reasonable analysis. The result is that complex issues often get reduced to fearmongering or xenophobic ...

I am ringing in 2008 by being officially too lazy to write anything original. But here are a few interesting stories from the past few days that are worth a read: And I thought Aussies were relaxedControversy in Australia, which has announced the implementation of a previously announced measure to censor pornography on the Internet at a ...

Imagethief does a lot of spokesperson training, in which we work with clients to help them get better results from interviews. In those sessions we show videos of people doing well in interviews and doing badly. One of our basic rules is to remain composed at all times, especially in front of a camera or microphone. Among the ''bad example'' clips ...

Could Lenovo be sexy? September 15, 2006 I have to confess that my respect for Lenovo is growing. When they first purchased the personal computer division of IBM (announced in December 2004 and completed in May 2005), I didn't give Lenovo much of a chance of making it work. They still have plenty of problems to solve ...