China Investigates & Shuts Down ‘Fake’ Apple Stores

July 25th, 2011 By: THN News

(The Hosting News) – Officials in China are said to be investigating various Apple retailers in the country after a blog post last week exposed a fake Apple store in Kunming, China.

The investigation has already resulted in two unauthorized Apple retailers shutting down. According to a Reuters report, the two were cited as failing to have a proper business license.

In a post last week, American blogger BirdAbroad (who lives in Kunming) described visiting a supposed Apple store in the city.
Even though having the Apple Store name, the products, and general layout, the blogger noted some obvious things that pointed towards the store being a fake. In fact, besides the one she initially posted on, BirdAbroad found another fake store with the obvious misspelling, “Apple Stoer.”
Despite the initial blog posting, it’s been reported that the two closures didn’t include the ‘fake’ Apple store initially described by the blogger.
Following the news, that store is said to be working on an Apple reseller application (according to the same Reuters report).

Apple currently has four ‘real’ Apple stores in the country, two in Beijing along with two in Shanghai. It’s unknown whether Apple played any part in the investigation and closures.

China is known as a hotspot for various counterfeited and copycatted items.
Recently AFP (Agence France-Presse) reported that last year EU officials seized fake items that accounted for a billion euros, 85% of which were from China.
However, entire counterfeit stores posing as the real thing appear to be less widespread.
It’s also important to note that the stores in question appear to have been selling actual Apple products.

Besides that, the country is known for its censorship of particular internet websites.
Blocked sites in the country have included the likes of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
The country has also banned popular video game consoles including Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii (the latter of which has led to a low quality Chinese rip-off system called the “Vii”).

Countries including the United States have criticized China over its rights record in the past.
Even with such tech limitations, Apple has seen progress in the Chinese market in the area of manufacturing. The company has various facilities, some of which are responsible for production of  Apple products like the iPad.

To view to the initial blog posting on the fake stores by BirdAbroad, visit:  http://birdabroad.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/are-you-listening-steve-jobs/

  
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New Cloud Zone in China Causes Controversy

June 30th, 2011 By: THN News

(The Hosting News) – A new area in China’s city of Chongqing will allow data centers and cloud businesses to have unlimited internet access. The move was recently approved by the city’s municipal government.

Unlimited internet access allows foreign companies to work outside the country’s internet filtering system.
Meanwhile, some involved in China’s IT industry have seen the move as unfair to the Chinese.

A critic of the move is Phelim Kine of Human Rights Watch. IDG News Service via ComputerWorld recently cited Kine as arguing against the move because it gives foreign companies internet access that isn’t afforded to actual citizens of the country.

China’s government blocks access to particular websites by its citizens. For example, China has had petition site Change.org blocked for some time now. The site faced downtime earlier this year due to a breach of its systems. The breach was said to be related to China’s arrest of artist Ai WeiWei.
In the past China has  blocked other prominent sites including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Meanwhile, the country has received criticism over its human rights record from other nations including the United States.

 
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Telehouse to Open New Cloud-Focused Data Center in Hong Kong

By Justin Lee,June 13, 2011

An image of the exterior and interior of Telehouse's Shanghai data center

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT infrastructure services provider Telehouse America (http://www.telehouse.com/) announced on Monday it is further expanding into China's South Coast with the TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC, a new 118,000 square foot data center.

Scheduled to begin service in December, this new facility offers premier carrier neutral data center services with a focus in cloud computing.

Telehouse Hong Kong CCC will be the 42nd data center in the Telehouse global portfolio. Last July, the company opened a data center in Shanghai.

The announcement also marks the company's third new data center to open this year, following the openings of its new data centers in Istanbul and Manhattan.

The data center will be the first Telehouse Cloud Computing Complex in Asia. TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC will provide customers excellent regional access across all Asian territories, including India.

Built in the Tseung Kwan O district, TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC, a neighbor to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Data Center, offers high connectivity capacity from local cable landing stations.

Cloud computing in China is a relatively untapped market, giving hosting providers a huge opportunity to expand their data center footprint throughout the country to support these services. IDC expects that the data center market will reach $1.5 billion by 2013.

"This premier facility in Hong Kong will be the first Telehouse data center to target the cloud computing industry," said Noriyuki Kita, executive vice president of Telehouse America. "Telehouse seeks to meet marketplace demands, which in this case, targets the popularity and accelerated growth of cloud computing due to its reduced costs and capacity to meet the demands of businesses of all sizes. Telehouse has responded directly to increasing demand in the Asian market from corporations moving their businesses' IT needs to cloud platforms with a trusted, experienced global carrier-neutral colocation provider."

The new Telehouse Hong Kong CCC facility meets the "Telehouse Global Facility and Operations Standards".

The facility will comprise of an N+1 or 2(N+1) infrastructure, 24-hour security guards and authorized access, high perimeter walled site, security cameras, IC cards, and an authentication system.

The new data center is the result of Telehouse's parent company, KDDI (www.kddi.com/english/index.html), who made a 50 percent investment in HKCOLO.NET, a data center operator in Hong Kong who will manage Telehouse Hong Kong CCC.

The partnership was founded on the mutual need for new data center space in this densely populated, high demand region.

 
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Google Claims China Blocking Gmail

(The Hosting News) – Google, Inc. recently charged the Chinese government of blocking its Gmail services which has been making it difficult for locals to access the site.

Many people inside the country have been complaining past week saying they’ve had difficulty accessing their account or sending email. Even the Person Finder application seems to have connectivity restraints, which was set up to help people locate their missing relative during the aftermath of a disaster such as the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

Google first became aware of the problem just a few weeks ago and has checked into the issue and reports that there are no technical issues on its

side. Their security blog continues to state, “This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.” In another part of the blog they state “we’ve noticed some highly targeted and apparently politically motivated attacks against our users. We believe activists may have been a specific target.”

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Host1Plus Expands into China, Launches New Website

By Nicole Henderson, January 14, 2011

             A screenshot of Host1Plus Mandarin-language website

 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- UK Web hosting provider Host1Plus (http://www.host1plus.com/) announced on Friday that it has expanded its operations to China with colocation in Singapore and a new Chinese version of its website.

This move comes two weeks after Host1Plus expanded into Germany with Frankfurt-based data center NewColo.

Its new website (cn.host1plus.com) is in Mandarin. It will provide 24/7 support to its customers in China.

“Host1Plus understands the importance of China to the Worldwide economy, therefore we have decided to open our subsidiary in Chinese market," Vincentas Grinius, Host1Plus co-founder and CEO said in a statement. "The huge population with the need of cheap and reliable local hosting service seemed to be a perfect market for us."

Host1Plus offers all main services for the Chinese market including VPS servers, cloud based hosting for small business and domain registration. The company says it plans to colocate in another data center in Hong Kong soon.

“We have been preparing to enter Chinese market for some time already. Finally we did it and are very glad even though [there are] lots of challenges are ahead," Grinius said. "As a company we are quite small, but have enough experience and potential to work in Chinese market. Our partnership with data center in Singapore and local payment method Alipay will allow us to provide the reliable and locally targeted services for Chinese companies and individuals.”

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