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| Thread ID: 119120 | 2011-07-05 20:09:00 | No Comment - Just Posting This | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1215101 | 2011-07-05 20:09:00 | The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Cisco Systems is set to supply networking technology that will help run a new surveillance system in China, and that HP is expected to bid on the project as well . The city of Chongqing will install as many as 500,000 video cameras at intersections, parks and neighborhoods covering 400 square miles — prompting concerns that the effort, which is being presented as a way to prevent crime, will increase the Chinese government’s control over its citizens . Cisco Systems, a Silicon Valley giant that is facing challenges from seemingly everywhere — its own back yard (Hewlett-Packard and others), China (Huawei), and shareholders (Ralph Nader) — might not be overly concerned about its social conscience at the moment . It might instead be trying to do everything it can to achieve growth . A Cisco spokesman did tell the WSJ that the San Jose company “hasn’t sold video cameras or video-surveillance solutions in any of our public infrastructure projects in China . ” |
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| 1215102 | 2011-07-05 20:59:00 | No comment.:banana | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1215103 | 2011-07-05 21:56:00 | HP. No comment. :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1215104 | 2011-07-06 09:57:00 | Sounds like they will be almost as "watched" as the UK. | decibel (11645) | ||
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