German/China Co-operation in Software Development

International interest in conducting software development with China is expanding. A joint software institute will be formed between the German Ministry of Education and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. This institute will focus on many topics including operating systems and software for mobile communications. Article from English People Daily

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X3D partners with China Daily

Partnership formed on Chinese culture ( 2003-10-22 09:39) (chinadaily.com.cn) Chinese official English newspaper China Daily has entered into a partnership with X3D Technologies Corp of the United States. According to China Daily’s report

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Chinese Internet Stocks Sag

TheStreet.com just published a article on Chinese Internet stocks. The article Piper Jaffray said the growth of short-message-service mobile technology has temporarily evened off in China. After the note, Sohu.com was down $2.67, or 7.5%, at $32.84, while Sina.com was down $3.68, or 8.9%, at $37.78. Netease.com was down $6.50, or 9.6%, at $61.05.

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Beijing punk comes to San Francisco – Anna-Sophie Loewenberg

From SFGate.com: When Xiao Rong started China’s seminal punk band Brain Failure, he was a teenager. That was years ago, when nobody had ever seen anything like the mohawk and the studded-leather belt Xiao sported around Beijing. Living on American fast food and pirated CDs, Xiao was one of the first Chinese youth to write […]

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China e-commerce sites set to grow

CNETAsia reported on Tuesday October 21, 2003 that e-commerce sites in China are on a growth path. The article quoted members of China’s e-commerce association. According to them, Web sites like on-line bookstore dangdang.com and Chinese domain name service provider 3721.com have proven to be successful.

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China’s immature supply chain frustrates foreign manufacturers

Multinationals looking to set up shop in China may do well to check their global supply chains at the door. Experiences shared at a recent Electronics Supply Chain Association (ESCA) roundtable in Sunnyvale, Calif., indicate that cultural differences, government red tape, and a lack of infrastructure continue to represent barriers to foreign companies that are […]

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Viruses Plague China

About 85 percent of all computers in China have been infected with viruses and widespread Internet use ensures that the number is growing, according to the country’s state media. The number of infected computers, based on a two-month survey conducted in the middle of the year, is up 1.6 percent from 2002 and 25.6 percent […]

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Making the Internet Chinese

Guangming Daily — a government owned publication — claims that once citizens of China are better enabled to use their native language to access the Internet, small-to-medium sized businesses in that country will be able to reap the economic benefits of having a web presence. Additionally, this “sinicization” of the Internet will help the web […]

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China and Engineering Grads

Interesting piece on how China is taking over as a premier creator of engineers. It’s an LA Times piece, so registration is required. China’s Technological Ambitions Take Flight Factoid: >Rob Koepp, a scholar at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, points out a statistic. “China graduates 450,000 engineers each year ò as many as the […]

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