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• Downer: Strong Australia-China relationship paramount for access to new technologies

  By Spandas Lui | 17 April, 2012 13:47

  Australia must foster a strong relationship with China or risk being cut off from access to new technological developments, according to former Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer.

• Joint ventures by US tech firms with China pose cyberwar risk: report

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 March, 2012 09:35

  Should conflict occur, China's cyberwar plans target the U.S., and today's Chinese joint ventures with U.S. manufacturers in hardware, software and telecommunications create a "potential vector" for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to exploit and compromise, says a report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission sent to Capitol Hill today.

• U.S. losing high-tech jobs, R&D dominance to Asia

  By Ann Bednarz | 20 January, 2012 03:20

  U.S. companies are locating more of their research and development operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science and technology economies, the National Science Board (NSB) reported this week.

• Apple reveals iPhone and iPad production secrets in Supplier Responsibility Progress Report

  By Patrick Budmar | 17 January, 2012 16:01

  Apple reveals iPhone and iPad production secrets in Supplier Responsibility Progress Report

• Your identity up for grabs

  By Mark Gibbs | 14 January, 2012 04:35

  Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars.

• Security roundup: DOD revving up cyber-defense for 2012; Microsoft to have big January Patch Tuesday

  By Ellen Messmer | 07 January, 2012 07:35

  Buried in the lengthy National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, the $622 billion defense spending bill which was signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 31, 2011, are some interesting nuggets about how the U.S. military wants to expand its cyber-defense strategy over the course of this year.

• China warming to broadband competition

  By AAP | 28 September, 2011 08:47

  China is allowing more competition in building broadband infrastructure than Australia, where the federal government has created the National Broadband Network (NBN) monopoly, according to Opposition communications spokeperson, Malcolm Turnbull.

• Global FTTx market will continue to be ruled by China: Ovum

  By Patrick Budmar | 06 July, 2011 17:16

  Research firm, Ovum, expects China to continue to dominate the global optical fiber broadband market throughout 2011 and beyond.

• Hewlett-Packard to expand in China

  By AAP | 04 July, 2011 09:27

  US computer maker Hewlett Packard plans to expand in China, with a string of research centres and manufacturing facilities in several Chinese cities.

• Boy sells kidney for iPad

  By Patrick Budmar | 07 June, 2011 09:29

  A 17-year-old student surnamed Zheng in Huaishan City, Anhui Province, sold one of his kidneys to buy Apple's popular iPad 2, according to the Shanghai Daily.

• China censors Web to curb Inner Mongolia protests

  By Michael Kan | 30 May, 2011 17:16

  China is blocking mention of Inner Mongolia on Chinese microblogs and social networking sites, as part of an effort to clamp down on protests that broke out last week in the region.

• IT outsourcing in China and data privacy guidelines

  By Stephanie Overby | 05 May, 2011 05:09

  China's data privacy protection has long been considered one of the world's weakest. But the government's proposed data security guidelines may go too far in the opposite direction.

• China closes 130,000 Internet cafes as it seeks more control

  By Michael Kan | 18 March, 2011 21:06

  China shut down more than 130,000 illegal Internet cafes in the country over a six year period, as part of crackdown to control the market, according to a new Chinese government report.

• Google: China will help lead the Internet revolution

  By Michael Kan | 07 December, 2010 20:34

  Google may have shutdown its China-based search engine months ago, but the U.S. company is still keen on providing new web services for users in the country.

• WikiLeaks: China pressured Google on Internet censorship

  By Michael Kan | 06 December, 2010 18:17

  Google's struggles to operate its search engine in China worsened after a high-ranking Chinese official Googled himself only to find "results critical of him," according to a new cable> released by WikiLeaks on Saturday.