The dispute was resolved, allowing both tools to co-exist on computers, after the industry regulator intervened.
Why and so what?
The cat-fight between Tencent and Qihoo 360 raised public awareness about Internet security and privacy protection. It taught many people, for the first time, how these popular "free" tools work and often "spy" on users.
QQ now has more than 1 billion registered users, and 360 has 300 million.
Though both QQ and 360 are free, users pay a price for the right to choose among convenient software, personal information and their privacy. Tang Jun's academic scandal
Tang Jun, a former Microsoft China and Shanda Entertainment president, found himself at the center of a controversy over his academic qualifications. He was not a graduate of the California Institute of Technology as he stated in his memoirs and in interviews. Rather, he holds a diploma from the less illustrious Pacific Western University in California. But that university's Hawaii branch was closed down by the United States government in 2006 for selling degrees. Tang's diploma was in electronic engineering and not computer science, as he had claimed.
Fang Zhouzi, an active online blog writer, unearthed the discrepancies in Tang's academic qualifications among a number of similar scandals this year.
Why and so what?
Tang's biography "My Success Can Be Copied" sold well in book stores before the scandal broke. The case has had repercussions because Tang was regarded as a poster-boy of China's IT industry.
Why and so what?
The cat-fight between Tencent and Qihoo 360 raised public awareness about Internet security and privacy protection. It taught many people, for the first time, how these popular "free" tools work and often "spy" on users.
QQ now has more than 1 billion registered users, and 360 has 300 million.
Though both QQ and 360 are free, users pay a price for the right to choose among convenient software, personal information and their privacy. Tang Jun's academic scandal
Tang Jun, a former Microsoft China and Shanda Entertainment president, found himself at the center of a controversy over his academic qualifications. He was not a graduate of the California Institute of Technology as he stated in his memoirs and in interviews. Rather, he holds a diploma from the less illustrious Pacific Western University in California. But that university's Hawaii branch was closed down by the United States government in 2006 for selling degrees. Tang's diploma was in electronic engineering and not computer science, as he had claimed.
Fang Zhouzi, an active online blog writer, unearthed the discrepancies in Tang's academic qualifications among a number of similar scandals this year.
Why and so what?
Tang's biography "My Success Can Be Copied" sold well in book stores before the scandal broke. The case has had repercussions because Tang was regarded as a poster-boy of China's IT industry.
