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July 28, 2008
A 24-hour outage of the popular Tencent QQ instant messenger system led to millions of hours of gained productivity in offices across Shanghai on Friday.
"I was amazed at how much work got done!", remarked David Chang, manager at advertising company FeelMedia. "Whenever I looked round the office, everyone had spreadsheets and Word documents open! It was so unusual!"
The Shanghai stock market reported brisk trade in the afternoon session, as traders were forced to spend time buying and selling shares, instead of sending each other jokes.
For some though, the stress was too much. By 4pm, secretary Paperclip Chen was getting panic attacks, after being unable to message her friends for a whole day. "I was hoping to get a new emoticon today", she sobbed.
"I was amazed at how much work got done!", remarked David Chang, manager at advertising company FeelMedia. "Whenever I looked round the office, everyone had spreadsheets and Word documents open! It was so unusual!"
The Shanghai stock market reported brisk trade in the afternoon session, as traders were forced to spend time buying and selling shares, instead of sending each other jokes.
For some though, the stress was too much. By 4pm, secretary Paperclip Chen was getting panic attacks, after being unable to message her friends for a whole day. "I was hoping to get a new emoticon today", she sobbed.
June 15, 2008
Shanghai netizens are struggling to find time to eat and sleep due to the Internet witchhunts which are triggered on the Chinese InterWang. People who post unpatriotic and thoughtless comments and videos are being pursued relentlessly by a tireless band of surfers, but the netizoos are starting to find the workload challenging.
"This eats up more of my time than World of Warcraft" complained Xiao Zhang, a Shanghai student. "I spent all of Sunday tracking down the address and ID number of a guy from Guilin who posted a video about how great France was on Xiaonei. On Monday and Tuesday I was busy posting on the BBSs attacking a girl who insulted earthquake victims. Then I spent most of the rest of the week hacking into the QQ account of someone who hadn't put (L) China in front of their name."
Zhang is worried his studies may be suffering as he often spends up to 20 hours a day righting wrongs. "It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it."
"This eats up more of my time than World of Warcraft" complained Xiao Zhang, a Shanghai student. "I spent all of Sunday tracking down the address and ID number of a guy from Guilin who posted a video about how great France was on Xiaonei. On Monday and Tuesday I was busy posting on the BBSs attacking a girl who insulted earthquake victims. Then I spent most of the rest of the week hacking into the QQ account of someone who hadn't put (L) China in front of their name."
Zhang is worried his studies may be suffering as he often spends up to 20 hours a day righting wrongs. "It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it."
October 28, 2007
The W32/Ebillug computer virus is rapidly spreading in China, according to Internet security firm Symmetric. The virus
- Sends itself by email
- Searches for open network shares
- Attempts to copy itself to unpatched or already vulnerable Microsoft IIS web servers
- Is a virus infecting both local files and files on remote network shares.
- Eats your mooncakes
- Is in your base, killing your doodz
The virus causes images on web-pages to appear upside-down. Here's an example from the Baidu search engine:
If you see any images on this site or others which appear to be upside down, you may have been infected by the virus. Anti-virus companies are working quickly to bring out new anti-virus definitions to fix the problem. Until these patches are available, anti-virus experts recommend turning your monitor upside down. If this is not possible, stand on your head.
- Sends itself by email
- Searches for open network shares
- Attempts to copy itself to unpatched or already vulnerable Microsoft IIS web servers
- Is a virus infecting both local files and files on remote network shares.
- Eats your mooncakes
- Is in your base, killing your doodz
The virus causes images on web-pages to appear upside-down. Here's an example from the Baidu search engine:
If you see any images on this site or others which appear to be upside down, you may have been infected by the virus. Anti-virus companies are working quickly to bring out new anti-virus definitions to fix the problem. Until these patches are available, anti-virus experts recommend turning your monitor upside down. If this is not possible, stand on your head.
October 18, 2007
New delivery company Shanghai Bagel promises to deliver fresh bagels to your home or office, in as little as three years.
Order a chocolate chip bagel now, and you can expect delivery by October 2010.
A spokesbagel commented to Shangzilla: "Shanghai Bagel is committed giving great service while providing fresh bagels and complimentary products. And we deliver within three years, or your money back."
Shangzilla ordered a muffin in 2004. We're still waiting.
Order a chocolate chip bagel now, and you can expect delivery by October 2010.
A spokesbagel commented to Shangzilla: "Shanghai Bagel is committed giving great service while providing fresh bagels and complimentary products. And we deliver within three years, or your money back."
Shangzilla ordered a muffin in 2004. We're still waiting.
October 5, 2007
Sun Microsystems, the well known computer software, hardware, and e-business solutions provider has decided to step into another niche of the Chinese market, Middle Autumn Festival's mooncakes. The
mooncake market in China yearly grosses at over $8 billion in sales.
That is to estimate, in China every person buys about 6 mooncakes at $1 a piece. People normally give them to each other as presents and eat them during the festive dinners and daily meals.
"To miss such an opportunity of capturing a market share and billions in profit would be a mistake," said Sun Microsystems spokesperson in Shanghai, Jeff Sunlight. Recent competitive involvements of IBM, SAP, as well as Chinese software companies have been eating Sun's lunch in e-business solutions in China.
"Intoduction of Suncakes™, will stabilize our profits in China and balance our losses in software market," added Sunlight.
Suncakes will come at reduced prices than their Chinese counterparts, due to the added marketing value.
mooncake market in China yearly grosses at over $8 billion in sales.
That is to estimate, in China every person buys about 6 mooncakes at $1 a piece. People normally give them to each other as presents and eat them during the festive dinners and daily meals.
"To miss such an opportunity of capturing a market share and billions in profit would be a mistake," said Sun Microsystems spokesperson in Shanghai, Jeff Sunlight. Recent competitive involvements of IBM, SAP, as well as Chinese software companies have been eating Sun's lunch in e-business solutions in China.
"Intoduction of Suncakes™, will stabilize our profits in China and balance our losses in software market," added Sunlight.
Suncakes will come at reduced prices than their Chinese counterparts, due to the added marketing value.
October 2, 2007
According to the latest traffic statistics realeased by Internet monitoring company Alexa (see graph below), popular satirical blog Shangzilla is streaking ahead of rival English-language city sites.
Shangzilla editor Dan Wasburnt commented "these figures are a vindication of our hard-hitting journalism."
Other sites including little-known blog Shanghaiist (a poor parody of Shangzilla) saw their traffic flat over the month, while Shangzilla traffic increased 6253% on a month-on-month basis.
Shangzilla editor Dan Wasburnt commented "these figures are a vindication of our hard-hitting journalism."
Other sites including little-known blog Shanghaiist (a poor parody of Shangzilla) saw their traffic flat over the month, while Shangzilla traffic increased 6253% on a month-on-month basis.
September 20, 2007
The traditional mid-Autumn festival gift of mooncakes has a new interpretation: this year, many people are sending e-mooncakes instead, via email and QQ Messenger.
Messages posted to the popular Baiban discussion forums appladed the innovation. "It's so much easier than sending real mooncakes" commented one poster, "and it's not as if anyone ever actually eats real mooncakes, we just re-gift them to someone else".
e-mooncake recipients should beware however, this week security experts found the first virus contained in an e-mooncake. Created by a hacker known as TastyCake99, the e-mooncake contains a variety of less than pleasant fillings.
Messages posted to the popular Baiban discussion forums appladed the innovation. "It's so much easier than sending real mooncakes" commented one poster, "and it's not as if anyone ever actually eats real mooncakes, we just re-gift them to someone else".
e-mooncake recipients should beware however, this week security experts found the first virus contained in an e-mooncake. Created by a hacker known as TastyCake99, the e-mooncake contains a variety of less than pleasant fillings.