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Jessica, an American blogger living in China, has found at least three “fake” retail Apple Stores. The stores selling Apple products are designed and operated just like real Apple shops, and their sales persons are dressed in “branded” blue T-shirts with apple logo giving the impression that they are working in real Apple stores.
The stores are operating in Kunming …

Some Chinese counterfeiter is thinking big.
A fake Apple Store, which was so well-made that even the employees in the store themselves think they are working for the Cupertino, California-based consumer electronics powerhouse, has recently been discovered by a foreigner in China.
According to the blogger’s post on birdabroad.wordpress.com, she made the discovery of the fake Apple store with her husband when they “strolled down a street a few blocks from our house a couple weeks …

China, the most populous country in the world, now has 485 million internet citizens or netizens, as people versed in tech world jargon often say.
The news comes after the government of China, through a group called the China Internet Network Information Center, released on Thursday an official report saying that the country now has 485 million internet users.
According to reports, however, the growth in the number of internet users in the country has slowed.
The growth, which saw 27 million …

A Chinese man from Shandong, China has reportedly made an iPad copy from “computer parts, a touch screen and a case with a keypad,” a report from the Agence France-Presse says.
According to the AFP, the man named Liu Xinying made a video of himself assembling the device and posted it on video-sharing site Youku.
The report says that Liu has managed to make an iPad look-a-like, now being called a DIY iPad, which looks like a thicker iPad and runs on the Microsoft-developed Windows …

In an exclusive report, Reuters reveals that China Telecom is likely to become the second carrier in the world’s most populous country to release the iPhone.
Reuters says, citing various unnamed sources, that China Telecom is likely to launch the iPhone in China this November.
China Telecom is the country’s smallest mobile carrier with a customer base of 106 million users. “China has 896 million mobile phone users,” Reuters says that that number is bigger than Europe’s …

Chinese search superstar Baidu has announced that it will be using Microsoft’s Bing search engine to serve English-language searches on its website.
The move comes as Baidu is setting its sights on international markets and Microsoft is eager to get a share of the massive Chinese market which Google has somewhat given up on.
According to Reuters, Baidu has told them that English language searches on Baidu will be redirected to Bing and Bing will then deliver the results to Baidu’s …

Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have become the newest targets of a spear phishing attack which aims to steal the login names and passwords of members in order to stage later attacks.

Trend Micro reported on Friday that the phishing attacks on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail were carried out separately from initial attacks on Gmail.  Google revealed on Wednesday that hundreds of Gmail accounts were compromised in attacks that originated from servers in China, although Chinese officials said they are not …

Arvind Rajan, LinkedIn’s managing director for Asia Pacific, said the company has opened an office in Singapore and plans to open one in Japan as part of efforts to expand its presence in the region.

Rajan said: “We chose Singapore’s location for a few reasons. One, because it’s the regional hub for so many multi-national companies, many of whom are already our customers on a global basis.”
 
Mr. Rajan said LinkedIn has a “significant presence” in Australia already and its …

“We’re aiming to serve a very large portion of China’s 40 million Internet users who are white collar or entrepreneurs.   Call it ten million in two years”, said Ushi chief executive Dominic Peneloza.  Ushi, China’s version of the professional networking website LinkedIn in the United States, already boasts 300,000 users, will raise $300 million in funding by the end of June, and expects huge growth in its user base over the next few years.

Penoloza, a Philipine-Chinese who grew …

Prisoners in China are being forced to play online games to amass currency used in virtual worlds which are then sold for real-world money, a report from the U.K.’s The Guardian revealed on Wednesday.
Citing a source named Liu Dali by the site, the report says that prison guards made about $767 to $930 every day from the currency earned by inmates.
“Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labor,” the source reportedly told …