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Microsoft teams up for China software push
News Aiming to provide software for the enterprise market in China, Microsoft has established its first joint venture in the country. The world's most populous country, China has long been heralded as an up-and-coming economic powerhouse.
[January 17, 2002, 14:58]
China builds first 3G chip
News Engineers and scientists in China have developed the country's first third-generation mobile chip, as the telecoms industry waits to see which 3G standard the Chinese government chooses. According to the Xinhua news agency, China's Southeast...
[January 4, 2006, 13:35]
Chinese Net population hits 68 million
News China had 68 million Internet users as of the end of June, 8.9 million more than six months ago, according the country's official Xinhua news agency. China is the most populous country in the world and one of the fastest growing Internet markets.
[July 22, 2003, 7:33]
China goes on spam offensive
News Critics suggest it is going to achieve very little by way of limiting spam either within China or outside of the country. China is launching an offensive on the problem of spam. According to Spamhaus, China is the world's second worst offender in...
[February 23, 2006, 10:20]
China telecoms market to overtake Japan by 2014
News Since the awarding of the country's 3G licences in January, China's operators have been working to accelerate rollout of the faster networks. China's telecommunications market is on track to generate $187bn by 2014, fuelled by mobile uptake in its...
[July 27, 2009, 9:51]
Techs bullish about China market
News Last year, China surpassed Japan and became the country with the second-largest number of people using the Net, according to Hsin-Mao Huang, CEO of the BNI Media Group. It's one of the few words that can perk up a high-technology executive these...
[July 10, 2002, 7:57]
China's homegrown 3G may overcome bumpy start
News Initially slated for wide deployment during the Beijing Olympics, connectivity issues including dropped network connections and spotty coverage prevented China Mobile — the country's largest mobile operator and the one leading the TD-SCDMA rollout...
[August 5, 2008, 8:36]
Motorola rejects Malaysian bribery allegations
News The country's opposition parties made claims the Malaysian government was arm-twisted into awarding Motorola a contract worth one billion ringgit (£155m), as an incentive to discourage the US telecommunications giant from pulling out of Penang and...
[March 14, 2008, 15:03]
Stirring things up in the US chip industry
News George Scalise wouldn't mind making fewer trips to China. He and his staff came away impressed with the gleaming new universities and research facilities that are springing up in various parts of China.
[July 10, 2006, 14:45]
China reins in Internet cafes
News Nearly all of China's 110,000 Internet cafes will be consolidated under the management of larger mainly state-owned companies in the next three years, according to the official Xinhua news agency. The spread of illegal content among Internet cafes...
[October 27, 2003, 12:00]
Cut-price Windows may bypass China
News Speaking to reporters in China, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said he doesn't know whether discount versions of the company's software will be needed in that country. China isn't the only country with a piracy issue.
[July 5, 2004, 11:20]
China exceeds 166m mobile users
News China Mobile is the country's largest wireless carrier with over 100 million users. The number of mobile phone users in China hit 167 million this April, an increase of six million subscribers from the previous month.
[May 21, 2002, 12:24]
China: Bursting with brainpower
News Work done by Chinese engineers for Western companies runs the gamut, said Wen-Hann Wang, who runs the Intel China Software Lab in Shanghai. While many technology giants are expanding manufacturing plants in China, a significant number of...
[July 11, 2002, 7:57]
US aims to bring down China's regulatory wall
News The honeymoon between China and the US tech industry is over, and the warm feelings may be gone for a while. In the past several months, China has adopted a series of regulations that seem calculated, at least according to Westerners, to help...
[March 19, 2004, 14:45]
Siemens plans huge Chinese investment
News German engineering conglomerate Siemens plans to invest €1bn (£679m) in China over the next few years as part of an ambitious plan to double revenues in the country. Part of the investment will go to its new headquarters in Beijing, while the...
[May 18, 2004, 12:05]
China advances home-grown chips
News Chinese scientists say they have developed the country's first mobile phone chip, and are readying a 64-bit processor for servers, major steps forward in China's ambition to control its own microprocessor intellectual property.
[March 6, 2003, 13:52]
More Chinese use mobiles than landlines
News In the course of 2003, China added 63 million new subscribers to its mobile networks, the government said, taking the total to around 269 million, compared to the 263 million landlines in the country.
[January 8, 2004, 14:15]
Great walls can't keep out the greater world
Leader In this case, China is expected to plump for a home-grown 3G standard, TD-SCDMA, while a Chinese university in conjunction with industry has just announced a chip built for the more widespread international WCDMA system.
[January 4, 2006, 11:40]
Chinese government backs MP3
News China has embraced MP3. An MP3 site is the ideal way for China to start promoting its artists worldwide," says Harry White, chief executive of Houston InterWeb, which is partnering the government in the venture.
[March 1, 2000, 16:22]
iPhone set to storm Chinese handset market
News This will be the first time the phone is legally available in the country with the largest amount of mobile-phone users in the world — despite the fact the iPhone is assembled in China. Unicom currently is still far behind China Mobile, the largest...
[August 14, 2009, 8:58]
