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iPhome 4G, the next iPhone is here! Yes, you read it right

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I have to say this. Chinese guys, you rock at cranking up knock-offs of real mobile devices extremely quick and pissing off the companies who spent millions on the design.

They’re done with the next iPhone even before Apple! The next generation iPhome 4G (ya ya, thats not a typo!) is out in some store in beijing. Folks at Cult of Mac got it, opened it and they know it’s complete crap. All thanks to Gizmodo’s $5000 iPhone 4G leak, they did manage to make something similar to it. Somewhat.

It’s priced at $150 (It’s cheaper than the iPhone and is not bound with AT&T so you might give it a shot) and has a 3.2 inch touchscreen. You would probably enjoy taking shots with the camera, if you are used to those rip off camera’s with undeniable quality.

What keywords and websites are censored in China?

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Censorship in China took a new turn with Google un-censoring all the search results. But first tell me which websites and keywords are blocked/censored in China?

Here’s a nice infographic by InformationIsBeautiful which was modified by Guardian which shows up websites and keywords  which are censored in China. Image after break, and click to enlarge it!

Google Vs. China : The war has begun

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Google Vs. China. It was bound to happen and it did now. I mean it was happening in the form of cold war but now, everything is public.

Few activist’s from China were hacked by Chinese authorities (mostly) and that the services used by these activists were from Google and Yahoo! prominently. I think Google was planning some sort of answer to chinese authorities and this gave Google an amazing opportunity to speak away.

Google.com was blocked in China years down the line, but later became accessible after 2006 with the launch of Google.cn when Google was asked to censor results because China did not want chinese people to be affected by the “Western Culture”.

Western Culture meant a lot, and Google had to censored so many results in accordance with China. I mean Google had to do it to get into the market of the country which has the largest internet user base of 380+ Million users.

Now the struggle broke out after accounts being hacked and Google has said that they will no longer obey Chinese authorities rules and censor results as they believe in free information for everyone and also they decide to go by their mantra, “Do no evil”.

This could be start of a bigger rebellion later on, but for now Google has threatened Chinese authorities to leave China. Google currently has less then 1000 employees who currently are on holidays.

One of the most important step Google had taken quite early was not storing user data physically in China because if it was so, they would have to submit to the will of China just like what Yahoo! had done leading to imprisonment of chinese activist and reporter.

Google went uncensored after the announcement on it’s blog and thats when the web went on fire. Frankly speaking even if chinese governments let go of Google, it won’t be a big loss to china as Google only has 37% of the search market share while Baidu, has about 58% so bad luck Google.

Well, for other services then search like mail and Android too could be a major loss to China.

Google also won’t have a major loss as the profits they were making in China were not high owing to low market share. This whole act brings up the matter, wasn’t internet supposed to be free access to information and free meaning freedom provided to user? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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Google’s traffic goes up 31 percent thanks to Iranian Cyber Army [hackers]

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Iranian Cyber Army, the most popular hackers these days who had managed to hack into Twitter and change the homepage to something what people did not want.

Something similar did happen to China’s biggest search Engine, Baidu. Recently, the search engine’s homepage had that nasty picture, somewhat which was on Twitter too saying that the website was hacked because of Iranian Cyber Army.

The reason for Twitter being hacked was because of the Iran Politics buzz on twitter. Why was baidu hacked? No idea say chinese security experts.

The DNS records had been played with. At first they had been changed to Yahoo, then to some other nameservers, and this battle went on for 3 hours till the Baidu engineers finally managed to get complete control.

The worst outcome of this whole hacking event was that Google China’s traffic had increased by nearly 31% because of millions of users dropping baidu for the time being and using Google china! What next could be hacked? Possibly facebook?