Results tagged “spam”

SPAM, that delicious (or disgusting, depending on who you ask) meat product, is soon to be available at a store near you. Previously found only in import stores like City Shop and Pines, the Chinese masses will now get their chance to taste test the original ham in a can.

Tired of getting harassed via mobile phone? According to China Tech News, it's possible to end your misery today with a visit to wap.12321.cn to download new anti-spam software just launched by MIIT. We can't actually see exactly how this works, but we'll let you readers scope it out and report back.

• Search for Carrefour's Chinese name 家乐福 on Google.cn right now and you get a blank screen with a one-liner (screenshot on the right) telling you that you can't access the results for your search term, and please go back to Google.cn to search for something else. Funnily enough, the same search term on Google.com is not blocked within China and returns 6.2 million results. In related news, ISP's across China received orders last week to remove anything related to "Carrefour boycotts".
• Junk text messages in China has doubled in the year 2007 to a whopping 353.8 billion.
• The Internet Society of China has closed down the open email proxies and relays of more than 4300 email service providers, many of which have been exploited by spammers to illegally send emails to Internet users everywhere.

Too much spam on your mobile phone? You're not the only one being hit or getting angry. 30 NPC delegates are thinking of enacting a PRC Information Security Protection Law, which would provide a heavy deterrent to spammers.