Electronics Piracy

There are three more or less identical pieces in the following online newsletters that firstly present some examples on recent product piracy in electronics - and at the same time show that copying and pasting other news portals' texts without any reference appears to be no problem.

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7483/52
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,118196,00.html
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200611/200611240009.htm

Chinese 3-G updates

Business weekly has a story with an overview and some latest development of the Chinese 3G history:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061127_928580.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_wireless+world

And Chinese Businesscast at Danwei also features the same topic
http://www.danwei.org/china_businesscast_the_mobile.php

With the ITU World telecoms around the corner, are we expecting some breaking news about all this soon? Stay tuned...

China and the KTV royalties

ChinaDigitalTimes links to a Wall Street Journal report about the new Chinese KTV royalty system, promising some US-$375 million a year in revenues for the music industry: "That's more than it currently makes in the country from selling CDs because they're so frequently pirated."
The story here

Cell Phone Users to Register Their Real Names

China Digital Times reports on a development on the compulsary registration of real names for mobile phone users: "Wang Jianli, head of the News Department of the Ministry of Information Industry, said regulations on cell phone real name registration will be released within this year, according to a report by East Daily.

Current unregistered cell phone users will have to get their phones registered. East Daily also reported earlier this year that Shanghai will cut signals of all unregistered cell phones.

The real name registration provision will be slipped into "Regulations of
Telecommunication and Short Message Services Management" (通信短信息服务管理
办法)."
See full story

International Comparison on Privacy

Good news for Germany,
not so good news for the UK,
really no (good) news for China.
Good that we're working on it ;-)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061101.wpriv1101/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20061101.wpriv1101