Mozilla in Asia

I can’t find the World Bank report mentioned in this report, but it is a significant concern when Internet access in China costs as much as it does.

Guangming Daily reports Chinese netizens spend ten times more money on the internet than people in developed countries.A World Bank report released on Monday reports Chinese netizens spend an average of 83.5 yuan (US$10.8) on the internet every month, more than 10 percent of their monthly income.

People in developed countries spend an average of less than one percent of their income to access the same information online.

It is amazing to think about spending 10% of one’s monthly income on Internet access.

Internet too expensive for most Chinese

Maybe you recently read that piece on Seeking Alpha about the potential for the Japanese government to use more open source software?

Japanese Government to Embrace Linux – Seeking Alpha

Be skeptical.

Andreas at the Chosaq blog covers this non-story.

chosaq ｻ Japanese government eyeing Linux? Quick deconstruction of a non-story.

Sadly, in 2007, this is as much of a non-story as it is was in 2005.

As seen elsewhere in the blogosphere, Foxkeh, our mascot for Firefox in Japan has launched an English blog. Foxkeh’s been very popular in Japan and we hope that he might help Spread Firefox even outside of Japan.