These once provided a handy way for Chinese users to see material stored on blocked websites.
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China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
They are also more attuned to Chinese users' tastes, offering more interactive features and expressive, animated icons.
Experts say the blocks that keep Chinese users from accessing services like Facebook, Twitter and Google Inc.
Chinese users, in fact, were three times as likely as the average respondent to tamper with their machines' security software.
The real-name rule also addresses issues such as fake accounts and real rumor mongering that Chinese users don't actually object to.
Chinese users tend to buy very little from iTunes, but the content portion of Apple's business in China is sure to grow.
Instead of billing monthly and letting users pay through their mobile phones, as most do in South Korea, they offer Chinese users pre-paid accounts.
We added many convenient features to provide Chinese users with one-click access to popular online activities such as gaming, shopping, banking, and microblogging, etc.
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Taobao offered instant messaging and voice mail to mobile phones for buyers and sellers because Chinese users were cell-phone savvy rather than computer savvy.
Only a fraction of Tor's Chinese users are experiencing the issue, implying that it may be just a subset of Chinese broadband providers experimenting with the new tool.
Based on what we know today and what we see in China, we believe our decision is a reasonable one, better for Chinese users and better for Google.
"What they prefer is that Chinese users decide it is just too much trouble and by default use onshore sites, or sites that are mirrored onshore, " he says.
For now, that's hardly a concern: The Chinese government plans to subsidize the mobile digital TV service for the first year to whet Chinese users' enthusiasm for the technology.
Last month, Apple unveiled a host of new features tailored to Chinese users, including integrating its operating systems with Chinese Internet services and making it easier to input Chinese characters.
The San Francisco firm said it has dozens of clients experimenting with new ways to make money from Chinese users, including offering free digital content in exchange for engaging with an ad or downloading an app.
The anticensorship and anonymity service Tor, for instance, has found that many of its "bridge nodes"--secretly placed servers around the world designed to connect users to the rest of Tor's maze of anonymizing computers--have become inaccessible to Chinese users within hours or even minutes of being set up, according to Andrew Lewman, the project's executive director.
More than 250m Chinese internet users have taken to microblogs for many purposes, plenty of them purely recreational.
That's why they are now paying extensive attention to active Chinese Web users.
He adds that many Chinese internet users are highly critical of the state media's campaign against Apple in recent weeks.
In the second quarter of 2010, according to Analysys International, Chinese mobile users chose Baidu first for mobile queries (34.3%).
Today, the shopping behavior of many of the 530 million Chinese internet users is changing gradually, but clearly towards online markets.
On November 6th, in the midst of the US presidential election, Chinese Internet users flocked to Weibo to follow the news.
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Global Times says the venture is a chance for Made in China to prove critics wrong amid widespread scepticism among Chinese internet users.
But lately, Google seems to have gained popularity with at least one group of Chinese Web users: some of the country's most successful cybercriminals.
He added that some Chinese Web users "still put up with the frustration of using Google, " including Google Maps and Gmail, despite the disruptions.
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