Archive for the 'Tech Horizon' Category

Aug12th2010

China ICP FAQ

There seems to be a lot of confusion and old information floating around about what is or isn’t an ICP may be and what is needed to get one and then as announced today – additional steps needed during the actual application process.

Aug12th2010

China Government Notice August 2010: ICP Application Process

With new regulations enforced by MIIT, Internet Service Providers are obliged to conform to the current ICP application procedure. Specifications are as follows:

Aug9th2010

Would you ever NOT offshore development?

Is there any point in NOT offshoring work? Most of the best tech these days is made out of India and Asia. So why do people still bother to do Computer Science degrees in the west of learn programming?

Apr19th2010

Google Using Site Speed Ranking & China Based Servers

It is also no secret that the percentage of users in China that would love to use foreign web sites for most of their daily stuff – is quite low. Yes stuff is blocked. But the lion’s share of Chinese speaking people want Chinese sites with Chinese stuff of them. They are located inside China.

Mar15th2010

The History of Chinese ICP and .CN Requirements

There has been a bit of a maelstrom recently regarding the use of .CN and ICP certificates all on top of the existing confusion.

So to try and set the record straight I am going to give a nice little walk through the pages of history and clearly state the facts of the matter from the inception until the present. And hopefully not only explain what the situation is, yet also how it came about and the anthropology of how we got to the situation that we have today.

Nov11th2009

The China Iceberg

Friend and collegue Jorn Knutsen has just launched his new blog about business in China. Written from 10 years of running factories, business councils and IT start ups in China.

Oct19th2009

Got Servers? FaceBook has 30K!

Good to see that good old memcached is in use too! ;-)

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/13/facebook-now-has-30000-servers/

Aug17th2009

iPhone in China September 1st 2009?

I went into my local China Mobile Shop and the accompanying China Unicom shop (next door) yesterday to get the wife a new phone. Seeing as my monthly bill would pay for three contracts out right – we might as well get something back out of it – as opposed to just a Gold VIP Card that only works in select airport lounges around China and god forbid if you are on a flight later than 8PM and want a free coffee or cold drink or foot bath….