Surveillance in Chinese cities is ubiquitous, with highly visible security cameras trained on most every intersection, public space, and building, but over the past decade, it has been seeping into the countryside as well. In an...
Despite Chinese authorities’ deep experience in restricting electronic content, The...
The Wall Street Journal reports from Beijing, where Apple CEO Tim Cook and China Mobile chairman...
The Wall Street Journal’s Lorraine Luk and Daisuke Wakabayashi report a long-anticipated...
Those hoping for a repeat of the madness that accompanied the aborted launch of the iPhone 4S in January left disappointed on Friday, as The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple’s flagship Beijing store began selling the...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s arrival in Beijing for a fourth round of Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) with several high-ranking members of the Chinese leadership took...
Zhang Chunjiang, the former vice chairman of China Mobile was sentenced to death with a two year reprieve Friday for accepting bribes. This follows the execution of two former vice mayors. From the New York Times: Recently,...
“The tentacles of state-owned enterprises extend into every nook where profit can be made”, the National University of Singapore’s Zheng Yongnian told The Economist recently. SOEs, in turn, are riddled with and...
Xinhua and China Mobile will jointly start a search engine. From Financial Times: Xinhua, China’s official news agency, and China Mobile, China’s largest mobile telecoms operator, are setting up a mobile search company together,...
Caixin reports on the downfall of Li Xiangdong, head of China Mobile’s mobile music service, who was recently arrested for alleged corruption after disappearing and fleeing the country reportedly with a huge amount of money: A...
Cell phone service providers have been asked to cancel service to anyone whose sends or receives messages with “unhealthy content,” the New York Times reports: China Mobile, one of the nation’s largest cellular...
Since yesterday, “李慧镝” became the most rapidly increased searched term on Google.cn. But Chinese netizens immediately noticed that the actual search results in both Baidu and Google.cn show no results, except one...
From Reuters: China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier by subscribers, said on Saturday its vice chairman Zhang Chunjiang is under investigation for breach of rules. “Zhang Chunjiang, for personal reasons,...
State-controlled Chinese phone company, China Mobile, has changed customer’s ring-back tones to a patriotic song for the October 1st holiday. The song, sung by Jackie Chan, is the patriotic song called “Guojia”...
BusinessWeek has more on the iPhone’s long-awaited entry into the China market after Apple announced a deal with China Unicom: Despite ongoing talk about possible tie-up with the mother of all cellular carriers, China...
From Telegraph: The company – which is 3.2pc owned by Vodafone – said: “Macroeconomic slowdown, a rising mobile communications penetration rate and changes in the competitive environment of the...
China’s TD-SCDMA standard for 3G mobile devices is receiving increased support from the central government. From Ming Shuliang in Caijing Magazine: Supporters of China’s homegrown, third generation (3G) mobile devices...
Soon, hip Chinese may not have to pay premium prices for smuggled iPhones. From AFP: China Mobile said Friday the main obstacle keeping iPhone out of the world’s largest mobile phone market had been cleared now that Apple...
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