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Wikileaks Docs Link China To Google Attack
The Chinese government had carried out strategic cyber attacks against Google and other Western businesses, new documents released by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks reveal.According to The New York Times, documents released by WikiLeaks showed that the US government had received confirmation from a Chinese informant that Politburo, the governing body behind the Communist Party of China, had directed the well planned and highly sophisticated attack onGoogle and other Western companies.
The leaked documents come in the form top-secret US Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) cables that were procured and made available by the controversial website.
The New York Times reports that the Google hacking was only one part of a campaign directed by specialist security experts and internet outlaws to attack hired by the Chinese government.
The documents also revealed that China has been mounting cyber attacks against the US government, US businesses and the Dalai Lama since 2002.
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Sacked Chinese Ad Resellers Set To Sue Google
The seven Chinese ad resellers whose contracts with Google have been terminated are threatening to take legal action against the search giant.The companies are seeking compensation for the money they are set to lose when the contracts end next month.
The group of advertisers have also accused several Google China employees of corruption and have asked the company to investigate the matter, reports the state run China Daily.
Google had decided to terminate the contracts of seven ad resellers in China without giving any reason for the move. The fresh turmoil adds fuel to the Google-China conflict that previously threatened the company’s future in the country.
A spokesperson for Google China has told China Daily that the company is not in the habit of discussing individual cases and added that “there are a variety of reasons why we choose to end relationships with certain partners”.
However, the spokesperson also said that Google is looking to partner with other ad resellers who will provide better services to Chinese Google users.
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Google Ends Contracts With Seven Chinese Ad Resellers
Google has announced that it will be cancelling its contracts with seven large Chinese online advertisement resellers on 27 October.The company has failed to give a concrete reason behind the termination of the contracts but said that it had sent out notices to the seven companies on 27 September, giving them a month’s notice, Reuters reports.
Analysts predict that Google’s move would prove beneficial for its Chinese rival Baidu which has a commanding presence in the Chinese search market, with more than 70 per cent of the market share.
Financial analysis firm Credit Suisse said in a note that the seven large ad resellers whose contract was terminated by Google were responsible for adding 1.5 billion yuan ($226 million) in Google’s revenue from China last year.
Despite the move, Google vice president John Liu has claimed that China remains one of the most important markets for the global search giant.
“Google, together with our team and partners, will spare no effort in helping China users and companies in digital marketing,” he told the AFP.
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China A ‘Very Important Market’ Says Google
Google has reaffirmed its commitment to China, describing it as one of the most important markets for the company.Speaking at a conference in Beijing, Google vice president John Liu said that China had a huge potential for market growth and Google will continue to offer its services as best as it can, news agency the AFP reports.
The announcement comes after Google decided to terminate the contracts of seven large online advertisement resellers with effect from 27 October.
Describing China as “very important market for Google”, Liu said during the conference that “Google, together with our team and partners, will spare no effort in helping China users and companies in digital marketing.”
Meanwhile, Google’s somewhat uncertain position in China has helped its rival Baidu in gaining more ground in the Chinese search market, accounting for more than 70 per cent of the market.
Google share of the market fell to 24.2 per cent in June, down from the 30.9 per cent recorded for the first quarter.
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Ex Google China President Targets Chinese Mobile Users
Former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee has announced two new projects in an attempt to tap the emerging Chinese mobile phone market.According to The Wall Street Journal, Lee has announced a new mobile operating system, called Tapas, and a media distribution platform named Wonderpod.
Tapas is a Google Android-based mobile operating system, set to come with features especially designed for the Chinese speaking market.
The operating system will come with the ability to detect the city from which an incoming call has originated – something that directly affects the price of receiving the call – , integration with popular Chinese social networks and a music software which will be capable of detecting the name of the song a user is listening to and provide them with lyrics.
Wonderpod, is an Android-based media distribution platform which is designed to allow Chinese users to download media from Chinese online video streaming platforms like Youku.com and Tudou.com.
Both the projects are being funded by Innovation Works, a company founded by Lee when he left Google last year.
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Google Q&A Page Blocked In China
A new Google ‘question and answer’ page has become inaccessible to users in mainland China on Tuesday.The news comes less than a month after the Chinese government renewed the company’s internet licence, after Google promised to adhere to Chinese censorship laws.
Google Wenda is designed to allow Chinese users to post questions that can then be answered by others, similar to the Answers service offered by Yahoo.
A Google spokesperson told news agency Associated Press that the company had found no problems with its server in Hong Kong, suggesting that the Chinese communications ministry has deliberately blocked the service from the mainland.
“If you are noticing there is a blockage you would need to ask the government, as it would be an issue at their end,” she said.
The Chinese government has refrained from issuing any statement on the matter, and has not responded to Google’s attempts discuss the issue.
Reuters reports that before it became inaccessible, the questions page had been filled with anti-communist party queries, including questions asking when China would have its next Tiananmen-style uprising, as well as abuse aimed at revered former leader Mao Zedong.
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Google China Search Block Was Technical Glitch
Google has said that the blocking of its services in China could have been the result of a technical glitch, the Telegraph has reported.The search giant reported on Thursday that its search engine and other web services were completely blocked in China, leading to fears that it had been the result of action taken by the Chinese government following its recent dispute with Google.
Speaking almost two hours after the initial report, Google said: “Because of the way we measure accessibility in China, it’s possible that our machines could overestimate the level of blockage.That seems to be what happened last night when there was a relatively small blockage. It appears now that users in China are accessing our properties normally.”
The technical glitch, which left only the search giant’s Gmail service working, appeared to bar access to Google’s news and pictures functions, and lasted for two hours.
Google has recently had its ICP licence to operate in China renewed after agreeing to abide by the country’s censorship policies.
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Chinese Users Of Google Still Experiencing Outages
Google China users were faced with error messages when they tried accessing the site for queries in what has been touted as the Beijing’s rejoinder to Google’s last week blatant move in which the search company leave the country over Chinese web censorship rules.
The search giant said earlier in the day that its search engine fell foul to a technical glitch, but later on it claimed that “the Great Firewall of China” was to blame for the outage.
A Google spokesman said it was still not clear whether the search engine had been blocked intentionally, or due to a technical glitch in China. However, Google said that its search site is now up and running, and that it is still probing into the matter.
This issue actually pivots around a set of letters in its coding that carried the letters “rfa”, which the search company thinks were mistaken for “Radio Free Asia”, a non-profit media company banned in China, by the Chinese filters.
The company believed that by adding those characters into the coding, the search site ran into filters, which eventually resulted into service outage.
However, since the coding was done around a week ago, it didn’t seem to be explicitly related to that issue, according to the company. “So whatever happened today to block Google.com.hk must have been as a result of a change in the great firewall”, a Google spokesman said.
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Google Admits That China Is Blocking Its Mobile Services
Search engine giant Google has confirmed that its mobile service operations in China have been partially blocked by the government, after it defied its wishes of running a censored search service and shifted its core backend to Hong Kong.
The company confirmed the disruption in its mobile services on its China status page which was set-up specially by the company in order to keep its users updated about the on-going struggle it had with the Chinese government.
Reports confirmed that popular Google services like Maps, search and News were inaccessible from China Mobile’s GPRS connection, which is used by millions of Chinese mobile phone users. Other Google services include Google Groups, Docs and Picasa while YouTube and Blogger continue to be blocked by the country.
A Google spokeswoman, commenting on the present state of affairs, said in a statement that “We can confirm that our status page indicates that mobile services are partially blocked from within mainland China.”
Google’s move to defy the Chinese government had left Chinese users and government officials shocked as both parties condemned the company’s actions and with many referring to it as a “highly politicised decision”.
The most popular web portal in Hong Kong, Tom Online, has announced that the company will discontinue from using Google’s search services while popular mobile services provider China Unicom has said that it will not include Google search in its mobile phones.
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Users Up In Arms Over Google Exit Of China
Search engine behemoth Google has been lambasted from a section of its own Chinese web users, who have started boycotting the search engine and switched their allegiance to rival Baidu.
This comes after Google has been criticised by the Chinese government for moving its base to Hong Kong in order to defy Chinese internet censorship laws.
The BBC reported that Chinese internet forum website Sina.com is overflowing with angry remarks from people, who were once avid Google users, criticising the highly politicised move. The comments posted on the web site include “Google, out of China” and “Go away, we have Baidu”.
However, the company has turned a deaf ear to the outrage of its Chinese users and has assured that it will continue to fulfil its existing contractual obligations.
Meanwhile, TOM Online, the popular internet and mobile phone company based in Hong Kong, has announced that it will refrain from using Google’s service in the future.
According to BBC journalist Jasmin Gu, who is presently based in China, said in a statement that “I think Chinese people are offended by Google’s action. It has aroused nationalistic fervour. Many people choose to stop using Google and support Chinese search engine Baidu.”
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