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HP forger arrested in China
News Last year, similar raids in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen turned up over 87,000 forged HP printer cartridges and accessories. Authorities in China have arrested the suspected leader of a counterfeit group for allegedly producing and...
[August 15, 2002, 10:59]
Microsoft smoothes mangled translations
News Unlike services such as Babelfish, which produce clumsy machine translations of foreign text, EWW is not intended to be a substitute for a working knowledge of English, said Ming Zhou, a researcher in the Beijing office of Microsoft Research and...
[August 5, 2004, 12:20]
Intel to construct giant computing grid for China
News It will also be used to help power the 'Digital Olympics' initiative, to support the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. By 2006, 100 of China's universities will be linked by a network that will combine their computing power to create a shared supercomputer.
[September 25, 2003, 10:40]
Nokia aims to N-Gage gamers
News The N-Gage was first unveiled last November in Beijing, along with the announcement of a partnership with game publisher Sega. Fancy playing Tomb Raider and Sonic the Hedgehog on your mobile phone? This will soon become reality -- Nokia launched...
[February 6, 2003, 9:23]
PalmSource chief slates Pocket PC devices
News Nagel spoke to CNETAsia from Beijing, where he was launching the Chinese-language version of Palm OS 5, the company's first attempt at producing native support for the language. The head of PalmSource, the software arm of Palm, has called handhelds...
[September 12, 2003, 11:20]
China exceeds 166m mobile users
News Additional reporting by Hu Hai Wei in Beijing. The number of mobile phone users in China hit 167 million this April, an increase of six million subscribers from the previous month. According to China's Ministry of Information Industry, the latest...
[May 21, 2002, 12:24]
Seeking Microsoft's next billion users
News We've got a manufacturing partner signed on with us and our group in Beijing is working quite hard on it. We've got a manufacturing partner signed on with us, and our group in Beijing is working quite hard on it.
[October 16, 2007, 12:17]
US announces global intellectual-property plan
News One such expert is already on the job in Beijing, but it was unclear when the others would be dispatched or who they would be. The Bush administration on Wednesday announced new plans to expand its crackdown on intellectual-property infringement...
[September 22, 2005, 10:35]
Chinese translation service stutters into life
News We'll have it working in time for the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games", promised Jajah co-founder Roman Scharf. A new automated phone translation service has suffered an outage immediately after launch.
[August 7, 2008, 17:24]
Sony pulls China's PS2 launch
News PlayStation 2 was to be released on a limited basis in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu. Electronics giant Sony announced on Monday that it had postponed its China launch of the new PlayStation 2, the most popular game console in...
[December 24, 2003, 9:59]
Brown aide honeytrap victim?
Blog Having lived in China for a number of years I can tell you now that this girl was NOT a part of an elaborate government espionage plan," wrote one reader in Beijing. One of Gordon Brown's senior advisors could have been the victim of a Chinese...
[July 21, 2008, 17:26]
Google launches Desktop for Linux
News The software was developed by Google's Beijing engineering team and is available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google...
[June 28, 2007, 8:10]
China cracks down with 'swipe and surf' policy
News Earlier this year, cybercafes in Beijing and many parts of the mainland were closed following a deadly fire at an Internet cafe in the capital. As further testament to the Chinese mainland's hard-line Internet control tactics, a Chinese province...
[November 6, 2002, 10:39]
London Olympics to develop local tech talent
News Work has already started on the IT project for the London 2012 Olympic Games, even before the 2008 Beijing Olympics is out of the way. The project to deliver the technology behind the London 2012 Olympics will try to develop new talent from the...
[October 15, 2007, 14:30]
MS unveils software venture in China
News In January, the software giant invested $3.6m to establish software solutions firm Zhongguancun Software with China's Beijing Centergate Technology (Holding) and Hong Kong's Stone Group. Software giant Microsoft has formed a joint venture with...
[April 11, 2002, 14:35]
Microsoft to support Chinese document standard
News The Beijing Information Technology Institute, one of the creators of UOF, will participate in the open-source project, according to a Microsoft representative. Microsoft is expanding its repertoire of document formats.
[May 21, 2007, 10:34]
China draws back the curtain on new Windows
News The monopoly of foreign office software over the Chinese market will be broken," said Chinese officials announcing the move at a trade event in Beijing last week. News that a consortium of China's universities and commercial interests want to...
[July 23, 2002, 6:27]
Dutch government's Microsoft talks collapse
News Earlier this month, Microsoft's contract to supply Beijing's municipal government, rumoured to be worth $3.6m, was cancelled. Negotiations between Microsoft and the Dutch government over a potential deal worth €147m to upgrade 245,000 computers...
[December 23, 2004, 16:10]
China shifts space race to software
News On Tuesday, CAST created the Beijing Shenzhou Aerospace Software Technology in co-operation with two academies and one of CAST's listed firms, to market the software and develop other software products.
[November 13, 2003, 10:25]
China Mobile CEO's rules of thumb
News Here are some highlights from a conversation I had with Wang Jianzhou during a recent visit to Beijing. I first met Wang Jianzhou in 1983, when I was teaching at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou -- one of the key science and technology universities...
[May 11, 2006, 14:55]
