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I do admire it for its Eco friendly aspect. It's cute!
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Fifty Geely Englon TX4 cabs put into service in Shanghai
Published: 2015-1-5
On October 11, fifty TX4 cabs under Geely Englon brand were delivered to Johnson & Johnson and went into services in Shanghai, adding a British style to the old Shanghai.
Those who have been to London may be impressed by the black classic taxi shuttling through the streets. Known as Black Cab, it is regarded as one of the cultural symbols in London and enjoys a reputation on a par with the well-known brands including Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, Land Rover, Bentley and Morgan. The introduction of the TX4 cabs will add another British style scenery to the city.
The first TX4 cabs are evolved from the classical black cabs in London streets. Compared with other taxi models, quite a few advantages of the cabs have been found by the test drivers.
One of its highlight is huge space. The car has two rows of seats in the cage including three fixed seats in the back row and a folding seat in the front row, in which there is comfortable seating for four people in two opposed rows. In addition, a special place is left for the luggage and the space is large enough to accommodate the luggage of the largest size.
Another highlight of the model lies in its outstanding performance in ensuring the privacy of the passengers. A sound proof panel was adopted between the driving cab and the cage, which prevents from "the walls having ears" and effectively ensures the privacy of the passengers. While in order to ensure the communication between the driver and the passengers, an intercom device is also adopted.
Its user-friendly design also wins quite a few reputations for the Englon TX4. The custom-oriented cab takes the demands of the special groups including the old people, babies and disabled into consideration. Its acres of space can accommodate the wheelchair and the pram and a wheelchair ramp is also adopted for the convenience of the special groups. Its user-friendly design also makes the cab unique among the taxies in the present market.
Despite of its large size, its 3.8-meter turning radius constitutes another advantage of the cab, which can help the cab effectively cope with the traffic jam. The first batch of the cabs will accept both reservation and hailing after its launch. In the future, more user-friendly and better cabs will land on the Shanghai market.
Published: 2015-1-5
On October 11, fifty TX4 cabs under Geely Englon brand were delivered to Johnson & Johnson and went into services in Shanghai, adding a British style to the old Shanghai.
Those who have been to London may be impressed by the black classic taxi shuttling through the streets. Known as Black Cab, it is regarded as one of the cultural symbols in London and enjoys a reputation on a par with the well-known brands including Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, Land Rover, Bentley and Morgan. The introduction of the TX4 cabs will add another British style scenery to the city.
The first TX4 cabs are evolved from the classical black cabs in London streets. Compared with other taxi models, quite a few advantages of the cabs have been found by the test drivers.
One of its highlight is huge space. The car has two rows of seats in the cage including three fixed seats in the back row and a folding seat in the front row, in which there is comfortable seating for four people in two opposed rows. In addition, a special place is left for the luggage and the space is large enough to accommodate the luggage of the largest size.
Another highlight of the model lies in its outstanding performance in ensuring the privacy of the passengers. A sound proof panel was adopted between the driving cab and the cage, which prevents from "the walls having ears" and effectively ensures the privacy of the passengers. While in order to ensure the communication between the driver and the passengers, an intercom device is also adopted.
Its user-friendly design also wins quite a few reputations for the Englon TX4. The custom-oriented cab takes the demands of the special groups including the old people, babies and disabled into consideration. Its acres of space can accommodate the wheelchair and the pram and a wheelchair ramp is also adopted for the convenience of the special groups. Its user-friendly design also makes the cab unique among the taxies in the present market.
Despite of its large size, its 3.8-meter turning radius constitutes another advantage of the cab, which can help the cab effectively cope with the traffic jam. The first batch of the cabs will accept both reservation and hailing after its launch. In the future, more user-friendly and better cabs will land on the Shanghai market.
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BEIJING—China announced sweeping new regulations requiring users of an array of Internet services to register with their real names and avoid spreading content that challenges national interests.
Internet users will also be punished for adopting misleading handles such as “Putin,” “Obama” or “People’s Daily,” state media said Wednesday of the new rules, which could hurt some of the country’s biggest Internet companies.
The requirements apply to users of blogs, microblogs, instant-messaging services, online discussion forums, news comment sections and related services, said the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s Internet regulator, in a statement posted on its website.
Internet users will still be allowed to select their own usernames and avatars as long as they don’t involve “illegal or unhealthy” content.
“Username chaos” had become a serious problem on the Chinese Internet, the state-run China News Service said in a report on the new regulations, citing an unidentified representative of the regulator. Fake accounts, it said, had “polluted the Internet ecology, harmed the interests of the masses, and seriously violated core socialist values.”
The Internet regulator didn’t immediately respond to requests to comment. According to the China News Service, Internet companies will be required to devote staff to implement the requirements.
The new regulations, to be enforced starting March 1, ban nine categories of usernames, including anything that harms national security, involves national secrets, incites ethnic discrimination or hatred, or harms national unity. Names that promote pornography, gambling, violence, terror, superstition and rumors are also banned, according to the statement.
Users will also be required to agree to respect the law, the socialist political system, social morality and truth before being allowed to use a given service.
Chinese Internet companies and users have pushed back against efforts to implement real-name registration in the past. The current drive, however, comes amid an unusually intense period of ideological and political tightening that has included warnings about the infiltration of “Western ideas” in higher education and demands that artists producework that is more patriotic.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been determined to quash dissent and frank in portraying the Internet as an ideological battleground the Communist Party must dominate. He has created a new high-level committee on Internet security and put himself at its helm. He has also presided over efforts to replace Western-made computer chips with local alternatives and force foreign tech companies to submit their products to security reviews
In January, regulators shut down dozens of social-media accounts for offenses ranging from spreading pornography to distorting history. Earlier this week, authorities accused Netease, a U.S.-listed Internet portal known for its relatively light censorship, of having “serious orientation problems,” saying it was helping spread rumors and smut. Netease didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The new rules, if strictly implemented, could have ripple effects throughout the Chinese Internet, analysts said.
Besides limiting speech, the real-name requirement could hurt popular products likeTencent Holdings Ltd. ’s QQ instant messaging service, Baidu Inc. ’s Tieba discussion forums and the Weibo microblogging platform, all of which are crawling with duplicate or “zombie” accounts.
“In a one-person, one-account situation, you’re going to see a lot of water flow out of the system,” said Zhu Wei, an expert in media law at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law, referring to artificially inflated user counts.
Baidu declined to comment. Tencent didn’t respond to a request to comment. In a statement posted online, Weibo vowed to abide by the new regulations and to “improve its management of information related to nicknames, avatars and personal descriptions.”
In addition to decreased user numbers, Chinese Internet companies face significant added operational costs associated with identifying users, verifying their information and tracking their activities, analysts said. With regulators offering few details about implementation, it is possible companies will again try to resist, though analysts said the government was not likely to give up on real-name registration.
“To maintain the stability of society and national security has always been at the top of the list for the Chinese government, and it is continuously revising the regulations to make sure it has the necessary coverage,” said Charlie Dai, an Internet analyst with Forrester Research.
There are multiple levels of identity validation and the government is likely to negotiate with individual Internet companies over which level they needed to implement, Mr. Dai said. Users might be unhappy, but they have few other choices, he added. “Some will leave, but finally most of them will accept it,” he said.
Chinese Internet companies would probably benefit from the added requirements in the long run because of the increased credibility they would bring, according to Mr. Zhu. In any case, he said, the companies didn’t have much choice.
“These rules aren’t the end. They’re not even the beginning of the end,” he said, pointing to a proposal for a unified tracking system—managed by the Public Security Bureau—that would allow users to register for any Internet service using a digital ID based on their government-issued ID card. “This isn’t far in the future,” he said. “It’s going to be in the near future.”
China to Enforce Real-Name Registration for Internet Users - WSJ
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Internet users will also be punished for adopting misleading handles such as “Putin,” “Obama” or “People’s Daily,” state media said Wednesday of the new rules, which could hurt some of the country’s biggest Internet companies.
The requirements apply to users of blogs, microblogs, instant-messaging services, online discussion forums, news comment sections and related services, said the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s Internet regulator, in a statement posted on its website.
Internet users will still be allowed to select their own usernames and avatars as long as they don’t involve “illegal or unhealthy” content.
“Username chaos” had become a serious problem on the Chinese Internet, the state-run China News Service said in a report on the new regulations, citing an unidentified representative of the regulator. Fake accounts, it said, had “polluted the Internet ecology, harmed the interests of the masses, and seriously violated core socialist values.”
The Internet regulator didn’t immediately respond to requests to comment. According to the China News Service, Internet companies will be required to devote staff to implement the requirements.
The new regulations, to be enforced starting March 1, ban nine categories of usernames, including anything that harms national security, involves national secrets, incites ethnic discrimination or hatred, or harms national unity. Names that promote pornography, gambling, violence, terror, superstition and rumors are also banned, according to the statement.
Users will also be required to agree to respect the law, the socialist political system, social morality and truth before being allowed to use a given service.
Chinese Internet companies and users have pushed back against efforts to implement real-name registration in the past. The current drive, however, comes amid an unusually intense period of ideological and political tightening that has included warnings about the infiltration of “Western ideas” in higher education and demands that artists producework that is more patriotic.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been determined to quash dissent and frank in portraying the Internet as an ideological battleground the Communist Party must dominate. He has created a new high-level committee on Internet security and put himself at its helm. He has also presided over efforts to replace Western-made computer chips with local alternatives and force foreign tech companies to submit their products to security reviews
In January, regulators shut down dozens of social-media accounts for offenses ranging from spreading pornography to distorting history. Earlier this week, authorities accused Netease, a U.S.-listed Internet portal known for its relatively light censorship, of having “serious orientation problems,” saying it was helping spread rumors and smut. Netease didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The new rules, if strictly implemented, could have ripple effects throughout the Chinese Internet, analysts said.
Besides limiting speech, the real-name requirement could hurt popular products likeTencent Holdings Ltd. ’s QQ instant messaging service, Baidu Inc. ’s Tieba discussion forums and the Weibo microblogging platform, all of which are crawling with duplicate or “zombie” accounts.
“In a one-person, one-account situation, you’re going to see a lot of water flow out of the system,” said Zhu Wei, an expert in media law at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law, referring to artificially inflated user counts.
Baidu declined to comment. Tencent didn’t respond to a request to comment. In a statement posted online, Weibo vowed to abide by the new regulations and to “improve its management of information related to nicknames, avatars and personal descriptions.”
In addition to decreased user numbers, Chinese Internet companies face significant added operational costs associated with identifying users, verifying their information and tracking their activities, analysts said. With regulators offering few details about implementation, it is possible companies will again try to resist, though analysts said the government was not likely to give up on real-name registration.
“To maintain the stability of society and national security has always been at the top of the list for the Chinese government, and it is continuously revising the regulations to make sure it has the necessary coverage,” said Charlie Dai, an Internet analyst with Forrester Research.
There are multiple levels of identity validation and the government is likely to negotiate with individual Internet companies over which level they needed to implement, Mr. Dai said. Users might be unhappy, but they have few other choices, he added. “Some will leave, but finally most of them will accept it,” he said.
Chinese Internet companies would probably benefit from the added requirements in the long run because of the increased credibility they would bring, according to Mr. Zhu. In any case, he said, the companies didn’t have much choice.
“These rules aren’t the end. They’re not even the beginning of the end,” he said, pointing to a proposal for a unified tracking system—managed by the Public Security Bureau—that would allow users to register for any Internet service using a digital ID based on their government-issued ID card. “This isn’t far in the future,” he said. “It’s going to be in the near future.”
China to Enforce Real-Name Registration for Internet Users - WSJ
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Today...facebook asked me to upload real identity with real photo, birthday to verify. Everyone should be responsible for his comments and acts.
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For non-profit or community website, you don't need real name to register. However for business or corporate profit platform, then you need real name to register. The same as Facebook. Microblog will be the same.
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Nope I can register with Facebook with my google id.
Why would you want to use you real id on the net.
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I have no problem with sites asking for cell phone as it is for my protection as well as them if that website is a profit-driven. Now I have serious problem if a community website like PDF asking for my cell phone number to register because there is no purpose for that.
Your Google ID is already embed with personal information, am I correct?
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I don't use my real name or profile on anything on net. Since when Facebook require real name or profile?
So this is your photo. Am I right?
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Nope, fake name, birthdate, no personal information.
I no longer register with yahoo after I forgot my yahoo password, now yahoo require my cell phone number, I won't need yahoo ID and give away my personal infor.
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Like I said, depending on the platform.. serious website will need real name identification while others don't. Facebook change this policy a long time ago when they started to implement real-name identification system.
Facebook 'real name' policy stirs questions around identity - CNN.com
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