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  Should Small IT Companies Compete for Government Projects

No matter where in the world you look, you will find that various government agencies spend enormous amounts of money to procure products and services from outside companies. And while most of us immediately think about construction projects and perhaps defense contractors, a huge portion of government projects over the last decade or so were in the IT sector. In essence, governments on all levels often require services that their existing employees cannot handle and they invite outside IT comp...

   IT, BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS     2017-12-28 17:51:09

  North Korea Government website costs only $15

Wired reports that the North Korean government is not occlusion as people imagine. Recently, some users found that the North Korean government has an official website in English, URL is www.korea-dpr.com. The Korean government hopes to launch an official website to carry forward its "ideology".The site design looks very good and fully functional. It has big improvment relative to their news release website Korea News.The report also pointed out that the official website was developed by the Nor...

   Nprth Koreea,Website,Price     2012-04-20 01:43:34

  TikTok confirms to sue US government

TikTok confirmed on Saturday to sue US government and US president Donald Trump over Trump administration's executive order on potentially banning TikTok in US. This Chinese short video app is the most downloaded app on App Store and PlayStore over past few months and has gained extremely high popularity among American youths. The parent company ByteDance claimed that the government's ban is illegal and hurts the interests of America people. "Even though we strongly disagree with the administra...

   BYTEDANCE,TIKTOK,US GOVERNMENT     2020-08-22 22:27:29

  Many Chinese applicants to US universities may be affected by Gmail cut out

Just after Christmas, many Chinese found that they could not connect to Gmail anymore in mainland China. Since Google announced leaving from China in 2010, the web version of Gmail was not accessible anymore. But people from China could still access Gmail through some Gmap apps. This time, Gmail is not accessible even with these apps. It is said that all the mail service protocols of Gmail including IMAP/POP/SMTP have been cut out by Chinese government. This means no mails can be sent to or rece...

   Gmail, China, Gmail cut out     2014-12-30 00:35:28

  China has blocked Wikipedia again

Recently lots of Chinese found they experienced problems while trying to access Wikipedia, the world's largest and most well-known free encyclopedia. It turns out that the notorious Chinese GFW(Great Firewall) is playing the critical role here. It blocks the Chinese version of Wikipedia. The reason why the Chinese version of Wikipedia is blocked is said to be that Wikipedia has changed its default protocol from HTTP to HTTPS. This change made it difficult for the GFW to filter some sensiti...

   CHINA,WIKIPEDIA,GFW,BLOCKED,NEWS     2015-12-05 19:04:12

  3 preconditions for Facebook to enter China

It's well known that Mark Zuckerberg has a big interest in the Chinese market. Recently, the founder of Facebook visited China to attend a development forum held by the Chinese government. Along with the trip, he also paid a trip to some famous places in Beijing such as The Great Wall. He even did a morning run in front of the Tian'an men Square, the symbol of China.  In past few years, Zuckerberg also learned Chinese and read Chinese books, showed his love to the Chinese culture....

   FACEBOOK,CHINA,MARK ZUCKERBERG     2016-03-25 01:32:51

  Are NSA engineers better than engieers at Microsoft?

NSA is the US government department which takes care of the information and data security of US. It's said to be one of the largest of U.S. intelligence organizations in terms of personnel and budget. There are many excellent engineers working on information and data security and developing algorithms and software help US government to collect intelligence information from all around the world. Many people may be curious about whether NSA has better engineers than IT companies like Microsoft and...

   NSA,Microsoft     2014-01-09 07:24:43

  What’s making Drupal gain momentum among government organizations?

Drupal has come up as a big splash in the world of Website development. Whether it’s an informative website or an e-commerce store, Drupal has been successfully utilized for meeting customized web requirements. It’s not surprising to find entrepreneurs, hailing from different business verticals, choosing Drupal for powering their websites. Joining this group of elite Drupal users are the representatives of government organizations. The noticeable popularity of Drupal has indeed made ...

   Drupal     2014-03-12 08:15:43

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai : Google is open to return to China

At the Code Conference on Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed his thought on Google's position in China. He expressed the openness of Google to return to China. "Google is in China....But Google Search is not there in China...But personally for me, I care about serving users globally in every corner. I always thought Google is for everyone, that applies to China, too. So wherever possible, we want to be in China to serve Chinese users....If we do it in a right and thoug...

   GOOGLE,CHINA,SUNDAR PICHAI,CODE CONFERENCE     2016-06-02 01:09:21

  What Makes A Successful Cryptocurrency?

The cryptocurrency landscape today is a little bit of a maze. There seem to be countless cryptos available — thousands of them, by some estimates — and unless you’re particularly well versed in this technology, it can be difficult to tell what differentiates them. To cut through some of the confusion, we decided to take a closer look at cryptocurrencies. We won’t simply list the most prominent ones, the way so many sites already have. Instead, we’re going to look i...

   BITCOIN,CRYPTOCURRENCY     2020-08-25 05:13:22

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