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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia announced today the launch of three new CDMA handsets on the Chinese market, namely the Nokia 6316s, Nokia 3806 and Nokia 1506. The new additions to the handset vendor’s CDMA portfolio are meant to show Nokia's commitment towards CDMA, which is one of the major... |
11 November 2009
09:34 GMT |
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2009 has not been a great year for World of Warcraft when it comes to its Chinese operations. Blizzard, the creator of the game, has decided to change the Chinese operator for the MMO from The9 to NetEase, a company that has promised to provide a bigger percentage of earnings as royalties.But the transfer itself was ... |
7 November 2009
11:01 GMT |
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The smartphone market in China has seen strong growth lately, marking a rise of more than 30 percent in shipments in 2008 when compared to the previous year. According to a recent report from In-Stat, smartphones accounted for around 15.3 percent of the total shipments of mobile phones in the country last year, compa... |
4 November 2009
05:55 GMT |
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World of Warcraft spent a lot of 2009 sleeping in China, with its servers offline. Now a more crushing blow has been dealt to its WoW community. Reuters reports that the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, or GAPP, has revoked NetEase's permit to operate the game on its territory. The compa... |
3 November 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola has been recently rumored to plan on launching on the market a series of new handsets powered by Google's Android operating system, and it seems that the pieces of the puzzle are finally coming together. Motorola Zeppelin, one of the phones rumored to be included in the company's... |
23 October 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Google Maps isn't exactly Google's most controversial product. It's taken a lot of heat over Google Books, Street View and others. In some parts of the world though the mapping service is causing quite an outrage at an international level and Google is forced to maintain its impartial stance while also... |
23 October 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Like anything else done in China recently, the envisioned South-to-North Water Diversion Project will take place on a gargantuan scale. Essentially, it goes something like this: the northern parts of the country have little water reserves, while the South has some that it can spare. Therefore, a route of channels cov... |
20 October 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Windows 7 might officially be just two days away from becoming available for purchase to customers worldwide, but fact is that the operating system is already available for free, almost free, or at a reduced price compared to what Microsoft is charging for the product. Pirated copies of the latest iteration of the Wi... |
20 October 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The massive, 8.0-scale tremor that struck the Sichuan province in China on May 12, 2008, claimed the lives of more than 85,000 people. It also caused massive damage to the country's infrastructure, and was felt in Beijing, some 1,500 kilometers away from its shallow epicenter, just 12 miles beneath the surface. ... |
15 October 2009
10:58 GMT |
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It seems that China is eager to make sure that foreign companies are shut out of the lucrative MMO market of the country, which is set to generate a record amount of revenue this year.The General Administration of Press and Publication together with the National Copyright Administration of the Communist state have an... |
14 October 2009
07:45 GMT |
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The Chinese Internet giant Alibaba has finally made an acquisition after several months of speculation and hints in this direction. The group announced that its online commerce arm Alibaba.com had purchased HiChina, an Internet infrastructure services provider with a large user base in the country. The company will b... |
29 September 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Google has the most popular search engine worldwide and dominates completely in some markets. But there are exceptions to this, and China is one of the biggest. And, not only is it far behind the market leader in the country, Google is actually losing search market share, dropping significantly since last year despit... |
23 September 2009
10:02 GMT |
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NetEase has officially announced that World of Warcraft, the most popular subscription-based MMO in the gaming world, has been relaunched on the Chinese market and both old and new players can now enjoy the experience of raiding and playing PvP without any restrictions. The operations of the MMO in China have been i... |
23 September 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola is reportedly gearing up to regain some of the market share it has lost lately, and is expected to place new orders for 2.5G feature phones with ODM makers in China and Taiwan. According to an article on DigiTimes, the company intends to rise its market share to 10 percent, and will order ... |
17 September 2009
09:39 GMT |
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Despite brave talk as recent as last week, Yahoo has sold its entire 1.14-percent stake in Alibaba.com, the Chinese business e-commerce platform, for about $150 million. However, Yahoo will retain its 39-percent share of the site's parent company, the unlisted Alibaba Group, which also handles Yahoo China. There... |
14 September 2009
09:24 GMT |
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The Chinese Government is preparing a law to counter the latest rise in online music piracy from companies, websites and users located in China. This could have serious implications on China-based search engines Baidu and Sogou, recognized as the best way to find free (mostly illegal) download links for audio tracks.... |
5 September 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Computer maker Dell announced about two weeks ago the launch of its Mini 3i smartphone on the Chinese market, the company's first handset to run under the China-centric OPhone operating system, a platform based on Google's Android OS. The new Dell device has been expected to surface on the market for quite ... |
1 September 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Citing a “100% reliable” source, Gizmodo claims that two prototype tablets were spotted in a factory in Shenzuen, China. The extra-large Apple tablets, as described by the source, allegedly sport screen sizes measuring 13-inches and 15-inches with one of the devices reportedly running Mac OS X when seen. ... |
31 August 2009
04:36 GMT |
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It was bound to happen eventually, Internet “addiction centers” are making their way to the US after several similar initiatives in Japan, South Korea and, of course, China. The reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program recently launched in the US with a 5-acre facility in Fall City, Washington, intere... |
20 August 2009
12:07 GMT |
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Computer maker Dell was expected to announce an Android phone aimed at the Chinese market a few days ago, and, while that hasn't happened until now, it seems that the specifications list of the device have emerged, along with some photos. The handset reportedly bears the codename of Benzine, yet recent reports s... |
14 August 2009
05:53 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Internet, Dell is set to release a mobile phone on the Chinese market within the following few days. It seems that the company is expected to announced the handset as coming towards mobile phone users in the country via a carrier that could be either China Mobile or China Unicom. ... |
10 August 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com is pushing into the US market with a big marketing campaign starting next week. The move is the first big foray in the area and aims to familiarize American entrepreneurs with the English version of its site, the WSJ reports. The site itself has been around since the company was f... |
8 August 2009
04:56 GMT |
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The Chinese version of World of Warcraft has been offline for more than one month. The downtime has been a direct result of the change of operators from The9 to NetEase. Blizzard is set to get more licensing money from the new deal but it might also lose a lot from a possible reduction of the number of players of the... |
7 August 2009
18:21 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola is expected to release to the market a few more devices during the ongoing year, some of which will head towards China, with the recently spotted Motorola W562 and A3300 among them. The new Motorola W562 is on its way towards China Telecom, it seems; as for the A3300, supposedly a smartpho... |
7 August 2009
05:58 GMT |
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The downtime that World of Warcraft has been suffering in China, as operators on that market are being switched from The9 to NetEase, is seen as something of a small catastrophe for Blizzard, the company that created the game, because of the huge number of Chinese gamers who are playing the MMO.Still, the widely held... |
4 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is getting ready to release yet another smartphone on the market, the Samsung i329. Moreover, it seems that the new device is expected to become available for purchase in China, powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system... |
4 August 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Chinese authorities have recently reported that the city of Ziketan has been sealed off from the rest of the world, after two people died of pneumonic plague. Ten other individuals, who are thought to have made contact with the victims, were also quarantined, and are kept under close observation by health officials. ... |
3 August 2009
03:51 GMT |
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Earlier in the year, World of Warcraft was announced by Blizzard to be changing operator on the Chinese market. The9 was to cease offering the MMO to gamers, while NetEase was set to pick up the publishing duties as soon as possible.The problem is that the game, almost one month after the handover, it is still not pl... |
29 July 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Leading Chinese online search provider Baidu posted its financial results for the second quarter, showing strong growth in search ad earnings with overall revenue at 1.1 billion yuan ($160.7 million). The revenue was up 37 percent year over year and 35 percent from the first quarter, slightly above analyst estimates,... |
27 July 2009
05:07 GMT |
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The Internet is already a common necessity in some countries, as essential as electricity and running water, but this isn't the case around the world, with many places still considering Internet access a luxury. That is slowly changing and, in fact, the world's Internet population is expected to grow by mor... |
23 July 2009
08:37 GMT |
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Chinese company ZTE Corp, a worldwide leading provider of telecom equipment and network solutions, came to the market recently with a number of four new mobile phones that run under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. According to the news, the four devices are only a part of the total of 10 the company... |
21 July 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Apple has been rumored to be getting ready to launch its popular iPhone 3G on the Chinese market for quite some time now, and it seems that the rumors might turn out to be true in the end. According to China Business Network (CBN), a deal between Apple and China Unicom, one of the mobile phone carriers in the country... |
20 July 2009
06:41 GMT |
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Opera Software announced on Wednesday the launch of KZ-Opera 4.0 mobile browser in China, in collaboration with Kong.net. According to the company, the new software solution is based on the widely popular Opera Mini 4.2 and comes towards users in the country with speed enhancements and with overall performance improv... |
9 July 2009
13:31 GMT |
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China is one of the countries located in areas of intense seismic activity, a fact that over the millennia has made itself felt on numerous occasions. Accounts of devastating earthquakes can be found throughout the nation's history; thus, experts in the country have formed a mixed Chinese-European research group... |
6 July 2009
04:08 GMT |
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Completely taken aback by the massive success they registered with cleaning Beijing's air during the 2008 Olympic Games, authorities in the Chinese capital have now recovered, and are moving towards extending the exemplary accomplishment around the country. The Communist government has for a long time stated tha... |
4 July 2009
07:01 GMT |
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The government in Beijing has indefinitely delayed its order that required all computers sold in China after July 1st to have a particular content-filtering application installed by default. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced this decision only one day before the order was to come into effe... |
2 July 2009
04:14 GMT |
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The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has taken action, which can probably make most of the gold farming operations taking place in the country illegal. The official line is that there is a high potential for fraud in any exchange involving virtual money and real world objects or services so, from now on, only virtual cur... |
30 June 2009
18:21 GMT |
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China has officially banned the trading of virtual currency for money or real-world goods or services. The move may put a dent in the “gold farming” industry, which brings in millions of dollars each year in the country though the law doesn't actually specify these types of transactions. Virtual curr... |
30 June 2009
06:12 GMT |
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The U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk have sent an official letter to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), asking them to cancel and rethink the proposal that requires PCs sold in the country to come with a con... |
27 June 2009
05:24 GMT |
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China is getting ready for its upcoming 3G networks, which will be deployed by all three carriers in the country, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, and the market is expected to represent a great opportunity for mobile phone makers to boost their sales. Nokia, the world's largest handset vendor, alr... |
27 June 2009
05:08 GMT |
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According to the latest news around the Internet, LG Electronics is expected to soon leave behind rival Samsung when it comes to the manufacturing of 3G mobile phones. It seems that the handset manufacturer might be able to outpace its co-national rival company courtesy of the high demand the technology is expected t... |
26 June 2009
11:14 GMT |
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Google is under attack again by Chinese officials and, now, they've blocked the company's global search page Google.com, as well as the popular online email manager Gmail. Both services were unavailable to Chinese Internet users starting at 9 p.m. local time, but were still accessible through external proxi... |
25 June 2009
06:45 GMT |
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2K Sports has always held the second place in the sports games race, which has been dominated by EA Sports. So, it needs to offer some pretty good and innovative concepts in order to gain ground on the dominating force of the market.One such innovative idea has just been announced, as the company is saying that NBA 2... |
25 June 2009
05:24 GMT |
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China is getting ready to launch a new crackdown on those videogames that are deemed to be “undesirable.” The official reasoning is that, as the number of players grows, especially those interested in MMOs, the possibility of addiction is also growing and the state must make sure that gamers are protected... |
22 June 2009
14:31 GMT |
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With all the focus on Iran lately and its attempts at blocking many social networking services and other sites, it's easy to forget the biggest state that regularly dabbles in online censorship and the arbitrary blocking of web sites, namely China.While the recent blocking of Twitter, Flickr and the banning of c... |
20 June 2009
14:07 GMT |
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Gemalto, the leading provider of digital security solutions, has announced today that its UICC (Universal Identity Cryptographic Computer) and R-UIM (Removable User Identity Module) cards are being supplied to the three major mobile phone carriers in China, which are getting ready to commercially launch their 3G netw... |
16 June 2009
06:39 GMT |
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The clean development mechanism (CDM) is an instrument created by the United Nations to serve as a carbon trading system for a number of countries. Today, a top climate executive in China denied allegations made about the country by several other states, which said that it was more or less getting a free ride within ... |
12 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the primary source of information on Apple's retail stores, points out to some architectural renderings on a public web site, which (seemingly) depict the design for Apple’s upcoming Beijing (China) store. The designs reportedly belong to American architect Benjamin Wood, while the store in ... |
4 June 2009
09:59 GMT |
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While investigating a cave in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, archaeologists discovered pottery fragments more than 18,000 years old, the most ancient ones ever found. Until now, the oldest pieces of ceramics ever found were created between 15,000 and 16,000 years ago, also in East Asia. While, for the rest o... |
2 June 2009
16:51 GMT |
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China is well known for its online censorship and for taking down even major sites. But two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Great Firewall of China has taken its efforts to a new level – Twitter, Flickr and a number of Microsoft services have been blocked.First to go was t... |
2 June 2009
08:12 GMT |
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