Sunday, April 10, 2011

DTN News - AEROSPACE NEWS: China Launche Satellite For Indigenous Global Navigation

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 10, 2011: China early Sunday morning launched its eighth orbiter which will form part of its indigenous satellite-navigation and positioning network.


A Long March-3A carrier rocket carrying the 'Beidou' or Compass, navigation satellite took off at 4.47 a.m. Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Xinhua reported.

It will join seven other satellites already in the orbit to form a network which will eventually consist of over 30 satellites.

The launching of the satellite marks the establishment of a basic system for the navigation and positioning network, said an unidentified spokesperson for the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre.

China will launch more satellites within the coming two years to finish a regional network to provide navigation services with high precision and credibility for industries and sectors such as mapping, fishery, transportation, meteorology and telecommunication, in the Asia-Pacific regions, the spokesperson said.

The network is scheduled to be able to provide global services by 2020.


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DTN News - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Facebook In Talks To Enter Chinese Market

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 10, 2011:
Popular social networking site Facebook is in talks with potential partners about
how to enter the market in China.

"We are currently studying and learning about China, as part of evaluating any possible approaches that could benefit our users, developers and advertisers," Facebook officials were quoted as saying.

Access to the Chinese market could give Facebook an additional 384 million users in the country, which has the world's largest population of Internet users. The online advertising market in China is also predicted to triple to almost 13 billion dollars by 2014.

However, many American companies have learned by their own experience that entering the Chinese market comes with a price.

Google had been forced to move its servers to Hong Kong in 2010 so that it could operate an uncensored search, complicating the company's relationship with China and upsetting many of its users.

Many users had chosen to go back to the most popular search engine in the country, Baidu and organized boycotts towards Google, at that time.

Facebook has been banned in China since 2009, when riots in the country's Xinjiang region had led to severe crackdowns on Internet use.

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DTN News - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWS: New book Reveals Google's Fallout With Apple And Exit From China

Asian Defense News: DTN News - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWS: New book Reveals Google's Fallout With Apple And Exit From China
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 10, 2011:
A new book released this week has lifted the lid on the secretive world of Google, revealing how the founders fell out with Apple's Steve Jobs and what happened in the search engine's exit from China.

'In the Plex' was written by Steven Levy, a technology reporter who says his latest work is "informed by a two-year deep dive into the company," reports the Daily Mail.

He reveals that when founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were on the hunt for a chief executive they wanted Steve Jobs to take up the job.

The only problem was that Jobs had a much better job at Apple - a much more superior company at the time.

He turned their offer down but because he saw the potential of Google he agreed to mentor Page and Brin, even sharing advisers.

Problems came when Google bought and started work on the Android mobile phone system.

Apple saw it as a direct threat to iPhone and relationships broke down with Jobs feeling betrayed by the pair.

When he saw features like the 'pinch-and-zoom' control to look at websites and images during a visit to Mountain View, California, the home of

'Googleplex', he was apparently furious.

He believed the best ideas from the iPhone had been stolen.

The book also looks at the company's decision to pull out of China in 2009, nine years after the decision to make in-roads into the country.

Hackers, believed to be state-sponsored, broke into Google email accounts so Brin decided it was time to pull out of China.

It was in the country that 'the worst moment in Google's history' came about.n executive was sacked after they gave iPods to Chinese government officials - a customary business practice.


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DTN News - CHINA NEWS: China Tells US Not To Interfere On Human Rights

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BEIJING, China

- April 10, 2011:

China has told Washington not to interfere in its affairs after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the release of dozens of activists rounded up in a growing crackdown on dissent.

Beijing rejected an annual human rights survey by the State Department saying China had stepped up efforts to rein in activists, the media and free Internet access and pursued "severe repression" in the Tibet and Xinjiang regions.

"The US should stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs with human rights reports," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement issued late Saturday.

Clinton said on Friday that Beijing's record on human rights was worsening.

"We remain deeply concerned about reports that since February, dozens of people including public-interest lawyers, writers, artists, intellectuals and activists have been arbitrarily detained and arrested."

She highlighted the case of Ai Weiwei, an outspoken artist who helped design the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Games. He was detained on April 3 for unspecified "economic crimes."

In an unusual public criticism, a UN human rights panel on Friday also voiced concern at China's treatment of activists and lawyers, saying that so-called enforced disappearances were a crime under international law.

China has warned foreign nations not to interfere over Ai's case. China often bristles at the annual State Department report, hitting back that the United States also has concerns it needs to address.

Hong said Washington should reflect on itself before acting as a "preacher of human rights".

In unusually blunt public comments, US Ambassador Jon Huntsman -- who leaves his post this month -- last week saluted Ai, jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and others who "challenge the Chinese government to serve the public in all cases and at all times".

"The United States will never stop supporting human rights because we believe in the fundamental struggle for human dignity and justice wherever it may occur," he said.

"We do so not because we oppose China but, on the contrary, because we value our relationship."

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