wasabix.org / it should better be rough » Asia http://www.wasabix.org Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:02:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Le chinois Huawei montre patte blanche aux services @ intelligenceonline.fr (member only) http://www.wasabix.org/2010/06/10/le-chinois-huawei-montre-patte-blanche-aux-services-intelligenceonline-fr/ http://www.wasabix.org/2010/06/10/le-chinois-huawei-montre-patte-blanche-aux-services-intelligenceonline-fr/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:58:28 +0000 wasabix http://www.wasabix.org/?p=2227 Continue reading →]]> I used to, but not anymore, Telecom Italia and Vodafone (Italy) serves you a nice Huawei modem for Internet services via EDGE or GPRS, cheap, working…but what about the technology inside…?

Fondé en 1988 par Ren Zhengfei, un ancien ingénieur télécoms au sein de l’Armée populaire de libération (APL), Huawei Technologies est généralement considéré comme proche des services de sécurité de Pékin. Ce soupçon gêne le développement du groupe, qui a réalisé un chiffre d’affaires de 23 milliards $ en 2008. (…)

Les liens de Huawei Technologies avec les services de renseignement chinois empêchent le groupe de se développer à l’international. (…)

]]> http://www.wasabix.org/2010/06/10/le-chinois-huawei-montre-patte-blanche-aux-services-intelligenceonline-fr/feed/ 0 Suicides chez Foxconn : pour le PDG d’Apple, l’usine est “plutôt chouette” @ lemonde.fr http://www.wasabix.org/2010/06/03/suicides-chez-foxconn-pour-le-pdg-dapple-lusine-est-plutot-chouette-lemonde-fr/ http://www.wasabix.org/2010/06/03/suicides-chez-foxconn-pour-le-pdg-dapple-lusine-est-plutot-chouette-lemonde-fr/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:12:23 +0000 wasabix http://www.wasabix.org/?p=2165 Continue reading →]]> Le patron d’Apple, Steve Jobs, a défendu les conditions de travail des employés du groupe taïwanais Foxconn Technology, qui fournit notamment son groupe, et qui a été marqué par une série de suicides, jugeant l’usine du groupe incriminée “plutôt chouette”. “Foxconn n’exploite pas ses employés”, a assuré M. Jobs au Salon All Things Digital, consacré aux nouvelles technologies, à Rancho Palos Verdes en Californie. “Quand on va sur place, c’est une usine, mais quand même, ils ont des restaurants, des cinémas et des hôpitaux et des piscines. Pour une usine, c’est plutôt chouette”, a affirmé le patron de la marque à la pomme. (…)

http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2010/06/03/suicides-chez-foxconn-pour-le-pdg-d-apple-l-usine-est-plutot-chouette_1366937_3216.html

http://www.liberation.fr/economie/0101639157-suicides-a-la-chaine-chez-le-geant-foxconn

]]> http://www.wasabix.org/2010/06/03/suicides-chez-foxconn-pour-le-pdg-dapple-lusine-est-plutot-chouette-lemonde-fr/feed/ 0 Google face à la grande muraille informatique @ mondediplo.net http://www.wasabix.org/2010/01/20/google-face-a-la-grande-muraille-informatique-mondediplo-net/ http://www.wasabix.org/2010/01/20/google-face-a-la-grande-muraille-informatique-mondediplo-net/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:29:35 +0000 wasabix http://www.wasabix.org/?p=1887 Continue reading →]]> Google a annoncé la semaine dernière ne plus vouloir censurer les résultats des recherches sur son portail chinois, Google.cn, renversant ainsi la stratégie adoptée en 2006. Cette annonce a surpris par son ton, et par les raisons invoquées : une série de tentatives de vol de code informatique et de piratage de comptes email d’opposants chinois…[mondediplo.net]

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]]> http://www.wasabix.org/2009/04/18/tokyoflash-japan-watches/feed/ 0 L’œil, la Terre et le cartographe http://www.wasabix.org/2009/03/10/l%e2%80%99oeil-la-terre-et-le-cartographe/ http://www.wasabix.org/2009/03/10/l%e2%80%99oeil-la-terre-et-le-cartographe/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:52:58 +0000 wasabix http://www.wasabix.org/?p=534

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]]> http://www.wasabix.org/2009/03/10/l%e2%80%99oeil-la-terre-et-le-cartographe/feed/ 0 neo-Taliban & al-Qaeda http://www.wasabix.org/2008/10/04/neo-taliban-al-qaeda/ http://www.wasabix.org/2008/10/04/neo-taliban-al-qaeda/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:45:05 +0000 wasabix http://www.wasabix.org/?p=433 What Nato failed to understand
Afghanistan: the neo-Taliban campaign
The attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on 20 September, killing some 60 people, was compared to 9/11 in Pakistan and could be a turning point in the conflict in this region. President Bush has authorised ground operations against Taliban bases in Pakistan, which has now become the main theatre in the ‘war on terror’. Meanwhile, the neo-Taliban, operating an al-Qaida franchise there and in Afghanistan, have controlled the escalation of guerrilla resistance in a sophisticated military strategy based on the conduct of the Vietnam war. [mondediplo.com]

Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America
MIRANSHAH, North Waziristan - With a truce between the Pakistani Taliban and Islamabad now in place, the Pakistani government is in effect reverting to its pre-September 11, 2001, position in which it closed its eyes to militant groups allied with al-Qaeda and clearly sided with the Taliban in Afghanistan. [atimes.com]

By Syed Saleem Shahzad

Continue reading →]]> What Nato failed to understand
Afghanistan: the neo-Taliban campaign
The attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on 20 September, killing some 60 people, was compared to 9/11 in Pakistan and could be a turning point in the conflict in this region. President Bush has authorised ground operations against Taliban bases in Pakistan, which has now become the main theatre in the ‘war on terror’. Meanwhile, the neo-Taliban, operating an al-Qaida franchise there and in Afghanistan, have controlled the escalation of guerrilla resistance in a sophisticated military strategy based on the conduct of the Vietnam war. [mondediplo.com]

Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America
MIRANSHAH, North Waziristan – With a truce between the Pakistani Taliban and Islamabad now in place, the Pakistani government is in effect reverting to its pre-September 11, 2001, position in which it closed its eyes to militant groups allied with al-Qaeda and clearly sided with the Taliban in Afghanistan. [atimes.com]

By Syed Saleem Shahzad

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Some news and not to read about the biggest and the others...

[economist.com]
And then there were none
What the death of the investment bank means for Wall Street

The doctors' bill
The chairman of the Federal Reserve and the treasury secretary give Congress a gloomy prognosis for the economy, and propose a drastic remedy

The big boys are back
Japan’s big banks put their megabucks to work in the West


[monde-diplomatique.fr]
Comment General Electric a réinventé le capitalisme américain
Qui, aux Etats-Unis, ignore encore que « General Electric nous apporte les bonnes choses de la vie » ? Martelé pendant des décennies par d’innombrables publicités, ce slogan un peu immodeste a précédé bien des films, des séries et des débats politiques parrainés par l’entreprise. Très présente dans la vie quotidienne des 300 millions d’Américains, General Electric n’oublie pas non plus d’intervenir dans la vie électorale du pays.
Par Olivier Vilain

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Some news and not to read about the biggest and the others…

[economist.com]
And then there were none
What the death of the investment bank means for Wall Street

The doctors’ bill
The chairman of the Federal Reserve and the treasury secretary give Congress a gloomy prognosis for the economy, and propose a drastic remedy

The big boys are back
Japan’s big banks put their megabucks to work in the West

[monde-diplomatique.fr]
Comment General Electric a réinventé le capitalisme américain
Qui, aux Etats-Unis, ignore encore que « General Electric nous apporte les bonnes choses de la vie » ? Martelé pendant des décennies par d’innombrables publicités, ce slogan un peu immodeste a précédé bien des films, des séries et des débats politiques parrainés par l’entreprise. Très présente dans la vie quotidienne des 300 millions d’Américains, General Electric n’oublie pas non plus d’intervenir dans la vie électorale du pays.
Par Olivier Vilain

]]> http://www.wasabix.org/2008/09/25/highlightscan-you-see-the-light/feed/ 0 The world gets to vote http://www.wasabix.org/2008/09/24/the-world-gets-to-vote/ http://www.wasabix.org/2008/09/24/the-world-gets-to-vote/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:34:52 +0000 wasabix http://www.wasabix.org/?p=419 Cast your vote now in the American presidential election with The Economist's Global Electoral College
[economist.com]

Continue reading →]]> Cast your vote now in the American presidential election with The Economist’s Global Electoral College
[economist.com]

]]> http://www.wasabix.org/2008/09/24/the-world-gets-to-vote/feed/ 0 What next? no comment… http://www.wasabix.org/2008/09/18/what-next-no-comment/ http://www.wasabix.org/2008/09/18/what-next-no-comment/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:28:19 +0000 wasabix http://www.wasabix.org/?p=393 Illustration by Oliver Burston

FINANCE houses set out to be monuments of stone and steel. In the widening gyre the greatest of them have splintered into matchwood. Ten short days saw the nationalisation, failure or rescue of what was once the world’s biggest insurer, with assets of $1 trillion, two of the world’s biggest investment banks, with combined assets of another $1.5 trillion, and two giants of America’s mortgage markets, with assets of $1.8 trillion. The government of the world’s leading capitalist nation has been sucked deep into the maelstrom of its most capitalist industry. And it looks overwhelmed. [economist.com]

Continue reading →]]> Illustration by Oliver Burston

FINANCE houses set out to be monuments of stone and steel. In the widening gyre the greatest of them have splintered into matchwood. Ten short days saw the nationalisation, failure or rescue of what was once the world’s biggest insurer, with assets of $1 trillion, two of the world’s biggest investment banks, with combined assets of another $1.5 trillion, and two giants of America’s mortgage markets, with assets of $1.8 trillion. The government of the world’s leading capitalist nation has been sucked deep into the maelstrom of its most capitalist industry. And it looks overwhelmed. [economist.com]

]]> http://www.wasabix.org/2008/09/18/what-next-no-comment/feed/ 0 Back, then the latest… http://www.wasabix.org/2008/08/31/back-then-the-latest/ http://www.wasabix.org/2008/08/31/back-then-the-latest/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:30:25 +0000 wasabix http://www.wasabix.org/?p=304
Every year, millions of people suffer as a result of the irresponsible arms trade
In some countries people are still put to death by firing squads.
A clear link exists between firearms and the death penalty and you can help break it >>>

Russian pullout from Georgia 'followed criticism on Facebook'
Political analysts were still reeling last night following the disclosure by sources within the Kremlin that Russia had only "buckled under pressure" when reviewing group membership statistics on the social networking website Facebook.

Doctors may soon have a new diagnostic tool in their kit bags

Everyone knows industry needs oil. Now people are worrying about water, too

Les « bidouilleurs » de la société de l’information
Défendre les citoyens contre les technologies menaçant leur vie privée, ou protéger la sécurité de systèmes informatiques pour le compte des militaires ? Dans un monde chaque jour plus technique, les compétences des hackers restent rarement inemployées...

If you feel like wasting some time: Shrinking the Nissan GT-R

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Every year, millions of people suffer as a result of the irresponsible arms trade
In some countries people are still put to death by firing squads.
A clear link exists between firearms and the death penalty and you can help break it >>>

Russian pullout from Georgia ‘followed criticism on Facebook’
Political analysts were still reeling last night following the disclosure by sources within the Kremlin that Russia had only “buckled under pressure” when reviewing group membership statistics on the social networking website Facebook.

Doctors may soon have a new diagnostic tool in their kit bags

Everyone knows industry needs oil. Now people are worrying about water, too

Les « bidouilleurs » de la société de l’information
Défendre les citoyens contre les technologies menaçant leur vie privée, ou protéger la sécurité de systèmes informatiques pour le compte des militaires ? Dans un monde chaque jour plus technique, les compétences des hackers restent rarement inemployées…
Links: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2008/09/MANACH/16226

If you feel like wasting some time: Shrinking the Nissan GT-R

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