Mozilla and China

Today we announced (at a press event held in Taipei) that Mozilla will set up shop in Taipei in the coming weeks. We are now recruiting for dozens of highly qualified engineers to work on our exciting B2G and Mobile projects. Come join us!

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Throughout 2005, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was under tremendous public pressure to counter the insurgency of Google, in terms of both business and talent. The year before Google had just established its presence in Kirkland, practically backyard of Microsoft’s Redmond campus, at the time widely seen as an extraordinarily bold attempt to thumb its nose [...]

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HP suing to stop Mark Hurd taking up his post as co-president at Oracle is potentially doing a huge favor to many Sun managers who got absorbed into Oracle. Because once he starts, he will have both the authority (which his predecessor had) and experience of computer systems (which his predecessor did not) to realize [...]

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Everyone by now has seen yesterday’s news that Oracle sued Google over alledged patent infringements relating to Android. I thought “OK, interesting”, and went on with other more pressing tasks at hand. Then I got pinged by someone asking if I was the inventor of 2 of the 7 patents Oracle cited in the lawsuit. [...]

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I sat at Air China’s departure lounge in Beijing yesterday and as usual tried to get online via Wi-Fi using my iPod touch. Surprised to find that a new system has been installed recently where one *has* to use IE on Windows in order to complete online access. Was told by the staff there that [...]

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China Construction Bank (CCB), which is the second largest bank in the world (by market cap) and has the second largest online user base in China, yesterday announced that their personal banking site has solved the web compatibility problem and now supports Firefox. If you read Chinese, you can see CCB’s own announcement at http://www.ccb.com/cn/ccbtoday/20100208_1265610102.html [...]

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The recent Google bombshell has certainly been heard around the world. Tons of coverage both in the US and in China — lots of headline echoes, some sensational nonsense, and very little substantial and knowledgeable analysis. How will this movie play out? Let me spoil the plot here. My executive summary – not insider info [...]

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In recent days, a wave of warnings from industry (Google, among others) and governments (from Germany to Australia and others) on the vulnerabilities of IE6 has resulted in a rush for users to download Firefox (www.mozilla.com), the primary alternative browser to IE. On a worldwide level, IE6 (released in 2001) is just one major variant [...]

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Tuesday (12/9/2008 Beijing time), we updated the Firefox China Edition to a new version (2008.12). The main update is that we now provide Google search (as well as Baidu) in Live Margins, and users can configure which default search engine they prefer. In Live Margins (the sidebar at the right side of the browser), if [...]

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我们今日更新了火狐中国版，下载请到火狐中国版官方网站 G-Fox.cn 或其他各大下载网站。 本次更新主要内容是在“火狐魔镜”中提供用户可定制搜索引擎服务。继上月首次发布火狐中国版后，许多用户反映希望在“火狐魔镜”中增加搜索引擎选项。使用新版本，在呈现谷歌搜索结果的同时，用户可以选择查看百度提供的搜索结果。同样，用户在查看百度搜索结果的时候，可以选择使用谷歌的搜索服务。新版默认搜索引擎设为谷歌，使用“火狐魔镜”后，用户选择的引擎将成为下次搜索的默认引擎。 火狐中国版是我们推出针对中国用户量身定制的区域化版本， 携手众多本地顶尖互联网合作伙伴，同时支持包括微软、苹果和Linux三大电脑平台，力图为中国火狐用户和网民带来全新的浏览体验。 恳请大家在 g-fox.cn 的论坛上给我们提出宝贵意见。谢谢。

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