From Financial Times: “Legend Group, China’s leading personal computer maker, and China Telecom, the country’s biggest fixed-line operator, are to cooperate to promote products and services under a strategic partnership announced Tuesday. The tie-up reflects the growing integration of electronics products and telecoms services, with telephone networks increasingly being used to deliver multimedia content and […]
Read MoreSingapore’s Straits Times newspaper reported today that protests by Internet users have led police to reopen a case against a well-connected woman who killed a peasant for scratching her BMW. The article is available here.
Read MoreReuters quoted Chinese source on last Friday that Faithful Union Limited and its director, Hong-Tao Li, will become the new single largest shareholder in the company. Washington Post used this story on Jan. 2nd. According to the story, China-based cable TV carrier China Cable & Communication Inc. said its management had “recently become aware” that […]
Read MoreAccording to the Detroit News, soon scientists in the United States, China and Russia will be able to collaborate over a new high-speed computer network that includes the first direct computer link across the Russia-China border. The network, separate from the public Internet, will enable scientists to transfer huge volumes of information more quickly and […]
Read MoreXinhua reported three days ago that “China’s Ministry of Culture will launch its first official cultural website in English (www. chinaculture.org) on Jan. 1, 2004 to celebrate 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. …… The website would include cultural exchanges, knowledge about China, Chinese culture and cultural news, with full coverage of Chinese cultural relics, natural […]
Read MoreThis article is from the Computerworld. It was about the Sun/China Deal announced in November 2003. According to the deal, Sun Microsystems “will provide China Standard Software (CSSC) with as many as 1 million seats pea...
Read MoreAn article in today’s Boston Globe says that China is sending a new surge of high-value, high tech exports such as cell phones, computers, electronics and cars into the world market. According to the article: “China’s Ministry of Information says home-grown firms such as TCL, Ningbo Bird Co. Ltd., and Haier Group now account for […]
Read MoreAmy Waldman wrote in New York Times: “The concept is the e-choupal, taken from the Hindi word for village square, or gathering place. The twist is the “e”: providing a computer and Internet connections for farmers to gather around …… E-choupal allows the farmers to check both futures prices across the globe and local prices […]
Read MoreHere is an article called “Top 10 Tech Stories Reveal Fast-Changing Landscape” on the Investor’s Business Daily. “China’s rise” was ranked the third story. “China’s stature in the tech world grew in two ways in 2003. First, more manufacturing shifted to the country, which has quickly emerged as a chip and electronics powerhouse. Second, China’s […]
Read MoreChina Tech News reports that Motorola and Samsung will be launching a combination phone that allows access on GSM networks and CDMA networks. China Unicom will be the first mobile phone provider with this new technology. There seems to be fierce competition between CDMA and GSM in Shanghai and Shenzhen but word of mouth says […]
Read MoreChina Tech News reports that starting today, China’s State Press and Publication Administration will begin cracking down on bootleg games. Estimates of $12,000 USD a day are lost by this software piracy. Having been to Shanghai a few days ago, I think that this will be a difficult prospect. Street vendors readily sell pirated softare […]
Read MoreCNETASIA listed some 2003 top stories in the article called One thing we learnt in 2003: China and India pack tech muscle, and know how to flex them.” In this brief report, China came up in subjects such as offshore outsourcing, Linux platform and viruses.
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet on Dec. 25 : ” East China’s Jiangsu Province has established a specialized website in the provincial capital, Nanjing, to standardize the management of Internet cafes. Officially opened Wednesday, the www.njwx.cn was established bythe Nanjing Internet Service Association, founded in December 2002. An official with the association said the website would providea platform […]
Read MoreDirectly from Peoples Daily yesterday: “Huicong International Information, which determined to be the world’s largest Chinese search engine provider announced at a release conference on December 23 the birth of the professional search brand “China Search Online” (www.zhongsou.com), a latest progress made by this provider who aims to challenge Google. ”
Read MoreChina Economic Net had a good article on December 17, 2003, which contains useful data such as the number of domestic websites and the bandwidth of China’s internet international outlet and inlet. Statistics are very encouraging but there are also problems such as a digital and economic divide within the country. The article started with […]
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