Google blocked once again in China
US based search engine giant Google has said that they are now investigating the reports that China has blocked access to several of their services in the country.
Google said in a statement: “We understand that many users could not access Google.com in mainland China, along with linked services, such [...]
China requires PCs to ship with web filtering software!
Wall Street Journal has reported that the Chinese government has now made it compulsory for all machines sold in the country to ship with web filtering software.
This software is to be designed to block a pre-configured list of web services. Customers would not get access to the [...]
Bing, Live.com and Hotmail blocked in China
Microsoft has confirmed that several of their web properties are currently blocked in China.
Microsoft’s just launched Bing search engine along with Hotmail webmail service and Live.com are all blocked.
Microsoft said: “Microsoft’s Bing.com, Live.com and Hotmail.com are among several Internet services that have been blocked for customers in China. [...]
The New York Times: Now blocked in China!
The New York Times has reported that the Chinese government has blocked access to their website in the country.
The newspaper company said that visitors from Chinese cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou were not able to connect to their service yesterday.
Users are unable to access the NYT website [...]
