Today’s Tech Sightings: Report: China’s WeChat Censors Users Abroad A new report from Toronto’s Citizen Lab says China’s top messaging app WeChat censors or blocks key words and sensitive terms in messages sent from overseas to mainland China. The block affects group chats of three or more users and messages containing terms not sanctioned by […]
Wechat’s Censorship Game; FireEye: Russia Weaponized Social Media
Posted December 1st, 2016 at 12:29 pm (UTC-4)
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Cuba Expands Wi-Fi; WeChat; iPhone OS X Flaw; Ello Goes Mobile
Posted June 18th, 2015 at 3:32 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Cuba Says It is Expanding Wi-Fi Access, Making it Cheaper Cuba’s government announced Thursday that it is expanding Wi-Fi access in state-run Internet centers and slashing hourly online costs by more than half. Cuba’s state communications company said 35 computer centers around the country will have Wi-Fi access, beginning in July. WeChat […]
Red Envelopes From China; Superfishy Lenovo; Sony; Bitcoin Auction
Posted February 19th, 2015 at 2:45 pm (UTC-4)
Chinese Usher in Lunar New Year on WeChat With a Billion Virtual Red Envelopes The annual tradition of gifting red envelopes with token money went online yesterday as the Chinese celebrated the new lunar year on the popular messaging app WeChat, also known as Weixin in China. Weixin users, said to number more than 400 million, […]
Tech Sightings, May 27, 2014
Posted May 27th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-4)
China Renews Crackdown on Tencent’s Messaging App WeChat China’s state media announced Tuesday authorities will launch a month-long crackdown on Tencent’s popular WeChat messaging application. WeChat has become a source of more reliable news for mobile users in China. Twitter’s Growth Shifts to Developing Countries A new report by the research firm eMarketer shows Twitter’s […]