This is the funniest story of the year, and it shows so much about China, Chinese culture, iPhones, phone usage, celebrity status, and more all through the eyes of a guy from New York who had his iPhone stolen, you just have to read the whole thing and you'll gain a lot of insight.   

The national broadband penetration rate has reached 83.7 per cent in populated areas up till December last year, compared to 22 per cent in 2008. Deputy Communication and Multimedia Minister Datuk Jailani Johari said the household broadband penetration rate was at 70.2 per cent up to last December. He said the government had allocated RM4.9 billion to beef up the nation's internet services. "The government is always concern and strive to raise the national internet services to a higher level via projects implemented for wider accessibility and higher internet speed in the country such as High Speed Broad Band (HSBB) and Fiber Optic Core Network for Sabah, Sarawak and the peninsula," he said during the question-and-answer session at the Dewan Negara sitting here, today. 

Jailani said as a continuous endeavor, the government was implementing projects like Phase 2 HSBB and Increase Capacity Suburban Broadband (SUBB) projects that had commenced this year to enable the people to enjoy better coverage of internet access in every populated areas. 

Alibaba has continued to push forward with their YunOS mobile operating system and in order to spread its usage, they have been focusing on offering low-cost phones in rural parts of China. SkyMobi has a mobile platform pre-installed on low-cost phones that also targets the rural and smaller city markets, as Chinese companies recognize the growth potential in those areas deserves some attention.