Thursday, November 04, 2010
Google CEO: China's Internet censorship will fail As more Chinese people go online, China's censorship will struggle to keep pace, Eric Schmidt says
Monday, April 05, 2010
Google, China Play Game of Cat and Mouse Google's end run around censorship rules draws a subdued response from China.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Chinese domain names to flood Internet China expects domain names that end in Chinese characters to be mainstream in two years...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Linux could power free netbook offer from mobile carriers A Linux advocate urges Chinese companies to offer Linux-based netbooks and download stores
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Huawei moves up in networking's big leagues The Chinese networking vendor has jumped into third place, partly on the strength of big deals in China
Monday, December 15, 2008
China may issue 3G licenses this month Chinese operators are expected to spend more than US$29.2 billion on 3G equipment according to a report from the mainland. The report said these investments will help stimulate China's economy, which has seen growth slow somewhat because of the current global economic turmoil
Monday, November 17, 2008
China consumes one-third of global semiconductors Purchases by manufacturers are growing faster than the industry anticipated, says an industry analyst. However, semiconductor production isn't keeping up with demand
Monday, May 26, 2008
China plans telecom restructuring, clears way for 3G By restructuring operators into companies that offer both mobile and fixed services the government hopes to foster competition
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Indian outsourcer plans major expansion in China Wipro, one of India’s largest IT outsourcing companies, plans a major expansion in China in the next two years.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Press watchdog blasts China's blogging policy Reporters Without Borders criticized the Chinese government for what the press advocacy group considers a move to end anonymous blogging in the communist country.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Symantec software snafu could set precedent The security firm's decision to compensate 50,000 Chinese users who lost data via a faulty Norton antivirus update may have an impact on other vendors, Canadian experts said. Just don't expect a cash payout or a day in court
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Microsoft looks for space in China's living room Microsoft Corp. wants to play a bigger role in China's living rooms, and the company is willing to spend millions of dollars to get there.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Applied, ON set up chip labs in China Applied Materials Inc., the world's largest vendor of chip manufacturing equipment, opened a new production line machinery lab in China on Thursday to develop a range of equipment. 
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Google users can interact in online community Google Inc. has dusted the cobwebs off its Groups discussion forum service with a redesigned interface and new features like the ability to create and edit Web pages and upload and share files. 
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
The 10 all-time biggest scandals on the Internet Many a reputation has gone swirling down the tubes, thanks to the Net's ability to expose scoundrels, scalawags, liars, cheats, and fools -- and then broadcast the scandal to a billion glowing screens. Here are our picks for the 10 all-time biggest scandals on the Internet. 
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Oracle calls Kingdee acquisition report 'speculation' Oracle Corp. Thursday dismissed as speculation a report that it plans to acquire Kingdee International Software Group Co. Ltd., a Chinese ERP (enterprise resource planning) software maker. 
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Hong Kong firms face China IT challenges Hong Kong enterprises have been heading north for decades. But only in recent years, as more companies from the service industry cross the border, has managing IT in China become a burning issue for local chief information officers (CIOs). 
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Bill Gates on China's 'most influential foreigners' list After regularly topping Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people for several years, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates joins Karl Marx and Nikita Khruschev on a list of non-Chinese making the greatest impact on China, published by a state-run newspaper's Web site.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Groups push Chinese government to follow tender laws Three Chinese industry groups have undertaken an effort to educate Chinese government departments about laws that prohibit procurement tenders from requiring a specific product brand, an Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Monday, February 13, 2006
China bans pirated products in entertainment industry China's State Council, the country's highest bureaucratic body, has issued a set of regulations governing China's entertainment industry that ban the use of pirated products at entertainment venues.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Executive director and general counsel of Ottawa-based CIPPIC Microsoft announced a new blog policy this week after its controversial shut down of a Chinese blogger at that government's request. IT World Canada's online editor Joaquim P. Menezes takes a look at the new policy and the questions it raises.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Sybase may offer open-source database in China Sybase Inc. is considering how it could make some parts of its database software available under an open-source license to customers and developers in China, a company executive said Wednesday. 
Thursday, November 03, 2005
ObjectWeb teams with Chinese group for middleware ObjectWeb Consortium has signed an agreement with a Chinese software group, Orientware, to build a common open-source middleware platform. According to the terms of a memorandum of understanding announced Friday, Orientware will also release several of its middleware components as open-source code. 
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
People's Bank of China puts cap on Internet payments The People's Bank of China (PBC), which sets China's monetary policy and regulates some areas of the country's banking industry, has issued a set of guidelines that cap the amount that individuals can spend online at 1,000 renminbi (US$123.53) per transaction, according to its Web site. In addition, the newly issued guidelines, entitled "Guidelines for Electronic Payment (No.1)," restrict the amount that Chinese users can spend using electronic payments made via the Internet and mobile phones at 5,000 renminbi per day.
Sunday, October 02, 2005
China deports convicted American DVD pirate An American convicted of DVD piracy and sentenced to jail in April by a Shanghai court has been deported, China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said Thursday.