They are checking share prices, looking for business leads and doing much of their browsing on Chinese-language software and accessing Chinese rather than foreign websites.
The user-friendly site, which runs on open source Chinese wiki software, has colorful graphics and icons to click on imaginatively designed sections.
Most Chinese institutions lack that software and there is a memory gap of 20 years between 1980 and 2000, when no Chinese institution collected Chinese contemporary art.
ECONOMIST: Two leading art fairs are showcasing new art from China
The battle for software dollars is so intense in China that researchers rarely work as a team on long-term software projects, Chinese scientists say.
Compared with booming profits, rich-country workers have lost out, as Chinese factory workers, Indian software engineers and the spread of computer automation undermine bargaining power and wage growth.
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
Analysts put the switch in the number two slot down to a decision IBM made in 2005 to sell off its PC business to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo to concentrate on software and services.
Toyou Feiji Electronics, a software company whose customers include Chinese web giant Sina, today held on to a 29% rise in its shares yesterday after its stock debuted at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
FORBES: Sina Supplier Among Two China Small-Cap IPOs Still Rising After Weak Data
On his most recent trip, he stopped in Shenzhen to confirm that he had lined up nearly every major Chinese computer manufacturer behind his company's "Venus project, " a combination of software and hardware that lets VCD players and other, similar devices display Chinese-language Internet content on an ordinary TV set.
Chinese authorities said Google must keep its mobile software, Android, free for other device makers for up to five years.
Among IT managers, 78% of Brazilians and 84% of Chinese IT managers said their employees used unauthorized software on work computers.
Out of seven software contracts, six went to Chinese vendors.
Chinese government has implemented many laws to fight software piracy.
Researchers at SANS and security firm Websense, in San Diego, notified the Chinese Internet service provider and domain registrar hosting the computers with malicious software.
The Chinese authorities cleared the deal on condition that Google keeps its mobile software, Android, free for other device makers for up to five years.
Researchers at SANS and security firm Websense (nasdaq: WBSN - news - people ), in San Diego, notified the Chinese Internet service provider and domain registrar hosting the computers with malicious software.
China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
Among the P2P video firms, PPStream and PPLive seem equally successful, and in classic Chinese competitive spirit PPLive is suing PPStream, accusing it of removing the PPLive software during a new PPStream upgrade install.
Further, thanks to planned investments by companies like Cisco, 3Com, Lucent, Microsoft, United Technologies, Motorola and Texas Instruments, if Congress approves normal trade with China, expect American and world markets to be flooded with ever higher-tech Chinese goods: broadband routers, telecommunications switches, semiconductors, servers, applications software and aerospace engine parts.
Last month, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates visited Shenzhen in southern China to unveil the company's "Venus project, " software and hardware that allows VCD players and other consumer devices to display Chinese Internet content on TVs.
These machines use technology similar to videogame consoles of five years ago but have full-sized keyboards, display Chinese characters on a TV screen and can run a wide variety of educational and entertainment software.
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has confirmed it is in talks with Microsoft about its use of Android software.
Cisco has said its proposed participation in the Chinese city's project was to provide routing and switching equipment, not cameras or video-surveillance software.
应用推荐