Owen Fletcher

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China Mobile’s provides sneak peek of app store

When it open, the Chinese carrier's Mobile Market application store will have 480 million potential customers

Linux could power free netbook offer from mobile carriers

A Linux advocate urges Chinese companies to offer Linux-based netbooks and download stores

China delays Net filtering mandate for PC makers

Questions of piracy, security and free speech still hang as China suddenly postpones its own deadline for computer makers to install Internet filtering software on all devices they ship to the country

Lenovo, HP, Dell, other PC makers warned against spreading Chinese Web filterware

The Green Dam Youth Escort software, ostensibly meant to filter online porn, could be used to bolster China's censorship of the Internet, according to a U.S. tech firm

Netbook strategy fails to prop Lenovo revenues

Chinese PC maker Lenovo posted a second quarterly loss as it began restructuring and suffered from weak demand for high-end products

China pushes WAPI in mobile phones

China's WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure security protocol, once the core of a trade dispute with the U.S., will appear in mobile phones as China rolls out 3G networks

Can Microsoft’s pay-as-you-go software model reduce piracy?

A Microsoft executive says pay-as-you go pilot projects in China and India may relieve the pressure that upfront fees place on companies and somehow cut the software maker's losses due to piracy

China denies running cyber spy network

Reports by Canadian researchers that a cyber snooping network called GhostNet is operating from servers based in China were dismissed by Chinese authorities as fabricated rumours

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