Dual-Sliding Nokia 8208 and a 3608 Clamshell Unveiled
	Nokia 8208 and Nokia 3608 are two brand new CDMA phones that will be released soon by the Finnish giant manufacturer. The handsets have quietly appeared on Nokia's official website and are presented as running on a Series 40 Users Interface. The 8208 model comes with a dual-sliding design and it's the only non-Nseries Nokia to have this form factor. The handset looks pretty simple, unveiling an alphanumeric keypad w ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 03:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola's New PDAs Are Officially China-Bound
	Motorola issued a press release a few hours ago, announcing the official availability of its new PDAs across China. The handsets we're talking about are Motorola MING A1600, Motorola MING A1800 and Motorola A810, all of which are being released only in China, with no plans for a future availability on other markets. While it’s not actually great news for users outside the aforementioned country who might like the new ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 09:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The China Earthquake Was Used to Spread Viruses
	Spammers' imagination is constantly reaching new peaks. The disastrous earthquake that hit China also gave ideas to spammers, who started using headlines referring to the catastrophe in the email subjects. Their purpose - to persuade the users to access a "video" that in fact was an executable file that launched Peacomm. D, a Trojan, on the affected computer. The earthquake-Beijing Olympics connection was also used in order ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 02:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola A810 and A1600 Are Official
	Motorola's latest touchscreen handsets, A810 and Ming A1600, are now featured on Moto's Chinese official website, which means they will both be soon available across China. The new handsets were first seen together back in April, when Motorola's Chinese line-up of handsets was unveiled. At the time, A810 and A1600 appeared together with A1800 (of which we've already ... [read more >>]
	24 June 2008, 08:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPhone 3G to Say "Hello China" in August
	One of the few big mobile markets where Apple's iPhone is not officially released yet, and we mean China, seems to be finally getting the touchscreen handset, starting August. Moreover, it's not the old iPhone that will make its way to China, but the new 3G one, which was unveiled on June 9. Although Apple did not mention anything about China when announcing the future countries where iPhone 3G would be released, ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2008, 04:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Motorola A1800 Commercial Targets Businessmen
	Motorola A1800, the latest touchscreen phone released by Motorola (and also one of the few Motos to come with a touchscreen display), appeared in a new commercial meant to lure the Chinese businessmen with its features. Why Chinese businessmen only? Because the phone seems to be ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 11:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motorola A1800 to Conquer China
	Motorola just announced the upcoming availability of its latest MotoMing mobile phone, the A1800, a weird-looking PDA-like clamshell phone that resembles the A1200 and A1600 models. The new Moto A1800 will apparently be available only in China, via China Unicom, the second l ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2008, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Meets China's Gobi Desert
	Microsoft is a company renowned for its philosophy of giving, and the latest initiative under the Unlimited Potential brand umbrella is an illustrative example of the efforts poured into philanthropic endeavors. The term "effort" is not misplaced, as the Redmond giant's Team Unlimited Potential ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 12:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chinese Earthquake 419 Scam
	The world is still terrified by the earthquake which shook down China on May 12 and scammers, hackers and phishers still want to take advantage of this. Another scam was detected by security company Sophos under the form of a 419 email which asks readers for their money. The only difference from a traditional 419 scam is that this time, the sender asks for money in order to go to China and look for his wife. "I do not kno ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 10:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chinese Woman Detained over YouTube Video
	The disaster that recently struck China has moved and impressed people all over the world, not to mention the Chinese people. But it appears that there's at least one person who was left untouched by the disaster left behind by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, that hit the Sichuan province. A video on YouTube shows a young Chinese female making a number of offensive comments regarding the events related to the earthquake that o ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 08:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

3G Enabled Hisense T68 Released
	Hisense recently launched its latest mobile phone, the T68, which comes to work on China's new and not yet fully developed 3G / TD-SCDMA network. The device was showcased at the Chinese HI-TECH 2008 fair and it's the second handset to come with support for TD-SCDMA frequencies, after Samsung's &l ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 04:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Donors May Get Themselves Hacked, US-CERT Warns
	Following the recent disasters in Burma and China, companies and charities are continuously asking for donations, which is quite a good thing considering the recorded number of victims. However, US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) warned that more and more phishers rely on these tragedies and attempt to get money from donors using traditional scams. Just like previous attacks, phishers send spam messages ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“Silent Love China” Launches Massive Web Attack
	A new attack has been detected on the Internet, no less than 9,000 websites being already affected by an exploit codenamed "Silent Love China". SiliconRepublic.com writes that the infection attempts to inject some sort of malicious code into popular websites and steal usernames and passwords belo ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Extends Its Support for the Chinese
	Google is extending its support for the Chinese people, using its products to help those who have fallen victims to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Sichuan. Until now, the death toll of the earthquake disaster has been reported to be 34,073, with another 245,108 injured. News about the disaster has spread all over the world and a number of organizations have made considerable efforts in trying to help the Chinese people. ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 04:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Whole Web Mourns Earthquake Victims
	Following the destructive earthquake which hit China on May 12, the entire web is today commemorating the victims of the tragedy in its very own methods. According to China Daily, China announced three days of national mourning and suspended all entertainment websites from displaying their content on the ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Footage of Chinese Earthquake on YouTube
	As we have already informed you, Google has done a good job in providing Google Earth users with information about the latest disasters that struck Asia. Besides the large amount of data meant to inform users about the status of the Myanmar victims, users can a ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Brings High-Res Chinese Earthquake in Google Earth
	The damages caused by the earthquake that hit China on May 12 can now be seen on Google Earth, Google's downloadable mapping solution which provides satellite imagery of the entire world. The Mountain View-based company rolled out a new KML file for Google Earth, which shows the first scenes after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake assaulted China. According to Wei Luo, Technical Lead Manager, Google Earth, the search company has ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2008, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Rarest and Largest Leopard Caught on Camera Trap
	This is the world's rarest big cat. Keeping this in mind, you can imagine how this was quite a hit: eight Amur leopards (Panthera pardus amurensis) were photographed by a camera trap in far southeastern Russia, in the Primorskiy region, at the border with China and North Korea. The recent census showed that less than 40 Amur leopards (also known as Far Eastern leopards; the name Amur refers to the Amur River, the largest ... [read more >>]
	15 May 2008, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LG KM380 Brings Mobile Music to China
	LG recently launched its newest music-oriented handset, the KM380, a device that has all the chances to be launched only in China. Therefore, non-Chinese users in need of a music phone will probably have to look for other models. LG KM380 resembles the W350, Son ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 12:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Philips Xenium X-Connect Full-Touchscreen Phone Leaked
	It looks like Philips will soon unveil its second full touchscreen mobile phone, after the X800 model that surfaced a few days ago. The new touchscreen handset is called Xenium X-Connect and it's said to bring more advanced features than the ones packed in X800. We ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 09:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Moto Yintai L800t Passes the FCC Tests
	A few days ago the FCC approved one of the new Motorola phones that the US-based producer included in its 2008 line-up. We're talking about Motorola L800t, or Moto Yintai, as ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 05:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Japanese Military Gains Space Access
	Almost four decades of Japan using the space for non-military applications are about to end on Friday with the introduction of a bill said to give the military space access. The action came with the visit of the Chinese President Hu Jiantao, whose country shot down one of its weather satellites last year, spreading fear amongst the Japanese people. In 1969 the parliament introduced a resolution stating that Japan would only use space for p ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ultrasounds for Mating
	The noise of a waterfall can easily cover the croak of a frog and this is why, in most cases, many frogs living near flowing water have quiet croaks and lack vocal sacks. However, a Chinese frog came up with the perfect solution for this tiny predicament: ultrasound croaks! We’re talking about the small concave-eared torrent frog (Amolops tormotus = Odorrana tormota) from eastern China, which thus manages to overcome the noise of the water ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Belgium Suspecting Chinese Hackers of Cyberespionage
	Belgium is the latest country attacked by Chinese hackers who attempted to break into the state's computers in order to conduct cyberespionage activities, the Belgian officials warned a few days ago according to UPI. The Justice Minister Jo Vandeurzen sustains that Chinese hackers may have sent dangerous emails containing malicious software to Belgian computers in order to steal certain information. The reason? The European Union and ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

SCNY 5 Megapixel Cell Phone Takes on Sony Ericsson
	If you ever wanted a 5 Megapixel mobile phone named SCNY, now you might have the chance to own one, as some Chinese producer thought of manufacturing a bunch of handsets under this name. Well, SCNY obviously brings to mind the SONY brand and since this new device is a phone that offers a 5 Megapixel camera, like some of Sony Ericsson's handsets, it's clear that we're talking about a product that wants to steal ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 06:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung SGH-L288 Brings 3G to China
	Samsung SGH-L288 (or simply Samsung L288) is the first mobile phone to be launched in China and to feature 3G connectivity, working on TD-SCDMA frequencies. The TD-SCDMA technology is developed by the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Technology, especially for China and for its 3G ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 05:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia Brings More Java Games to China and Taiwan
	Mobile gamers from China and Taiwan have from now on extra titles to chose from, as more games from Nokia's SNAP Mobile platform are available for them, through additional distribution channels. Following Nokia's new deal with SINA Corporation, an important Chinese media company, users all around China have now access to a brand new range of connected ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 09:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Carrefour Censored by Google
	If China decides to censor a local website, nobody gets too amazed because such cases occur every once in a while and people have started getting used to it. However, a similar matter was spotted a few days ago and, at this time, nobody can say for sure if the one that imposed the censorship is actually Google or the Chinese government. Following the recent call for boycott on Carrefour of the Chinese residents, the French superm ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 02:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Philips M600, Fashionable Music Phone Coming Soon
	Philips M600 is a new music-oriented mobile phone that should be released pretty soon under Philips' brand name. The handset comes in a candybar form factor and has a very nice look, hence we could say it's both a ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Anti-Piracy Groups to Incite Users Against File-Sharing
	As part of their efforts to stop illegal file-sharing, the Motion Picture Association and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry have announced a new campaign that would attempt to convince the Chinese users that illegal file-sharing must be avoided. The two organizations will distribute 300,000 booklets to the students of the country's top universities in which file-sharing is described as a way to get yo ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 07:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung W599, the Latest Dual SIM Phone
	Samsung unveiled these days another dual SIM mobile phone, Samsung W599 (or Samsung SCH-W599), which will first be launched in China. The South Korean company seems to give a special attention to dual SIM devices, as these are currently very popular in Asia and they could ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2008, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell Enters Business With Chinese Local Retailers
	Dell has announced that it plans to increase its presence on the Chinese retail market via its Suning electronics chain. The company also plans to double the number of Gome stores that sell the company's desktop and notebook computers. Moreover, the system manufacturer today announced that it will also tighten the relations with the Hontu chain of retail stores, as well as with several other retail channels, such as Wuxin ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 10:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Critical Attack Over Windows 2000 in Progress
	Microsoft's Windows operating system is again causing trouble for its customers after security company Symantec confirmed that a new malicious code targeting the Chinese version of Windows 2000 is available on the web. Moreover, it seems like the code is able to exploit a critical vulnerability, which was actually patched by the Redmond-based company last week. However, the non-Chinese versions of the operating system are al ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Oldest Vertebrates
	Chinese researchers from the University of Xi'an found in 1999, in Kunming area, Yunan (southern China) vertebrate fossils older than 500 Ma. Myllokunmingia and Haikouichthys had muscles with a "W" shape (myomeres) in transversal section of the body and a cartilaginous skull and spine. The previous oldest vertebrate fossils were 480 Ma old, but from the Cambrian (542-488 Ma) when most living groups of animals h ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 11:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ericsson Expands China Mobile's And China Unicom's Networks
	Ericsson unveiled today that it has signed two "GSM expansion framework agreements" with China Mobile and China Unicom, the giant Chinese mobile operators. The agreements were announced during a ceremony in Beijing, attended by Wen Ji ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 10:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World of Warcraft, One Million in China
	Blizzard's MMO phenomenon World of Warcraft didn't really get the huge numbers in Asian countries until now, but it was only a matter of time until this was going to happen, right? Well, Blizzard has just confirmed that one million concurrent players from Chi ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First Cheap Ferrari Cell Phone
	Since Motorola came out with MotoRAZR Maxx V6 Ferrari Limited Edition, a Ferrari phone is not a new thing to see. But the Maxx V6 only looks like a phone, and not like a car. Assuming that the world might need a phone that actually resembles a Ferrari, an anonymous produ ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 10:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Image Search Got Tab'd
	There were a lot of tests conducted on the Chinese version of Google Search, so we shouldn't be too surprised in case a new interface/functionality appears out of nowhere. In fact, this is exactly what’s happened today because the Mountain View-based company has just rolled out a new appearance for Google Image Search China, the function which is based on tabs. As you can see if you look at the adjacent picture, Image Search ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cool G108, the Watch Phone in a Clamshell Body
	Cool G108 is one of the latest devices to come from China, and while you probably expect it to be a copy of an already existing product, as many Chinese gadgets are, the G108 is a pretty original creation. The device combines a cell phone and a watch into a small case – which is ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acupuncture: 4 Millennia of Chinese Efficiency
	If you want to avoid traditional medicine and the inherent mounds of drugs, this is an alternative. Acupuncture refers to a group of techniques, employing very thin, small needles introduced in some precise body parts for achieving a therapeutic answer. Its efficiency seems to be given by the fact that it causes th ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 09:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Giant Cell Phone Weighs 22 Kilograms
	Slim and lightweight are definitely nice qualities for mobile phones, but the new king of handsets is far from having these attributes, and has all the chances to be designated the biggest functional cell phone in the world. A Mr. Tan, resident of Songyuan, China, worked about half a year to create a huge handset, based on its normal mobile phone, reports ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Wants China, China Bans Google Earth
	China has always been somehow a prohibited land for Google although the search engine provider has struggled to evolve in the market by acquiring new companies, releasing new Chinese flavors of its products or signing deals with the local players. However, it always encountered problems, no matter if we're talking about fake agents who pretended to be hired by Google or about the Baidu reply which has always been pretty toug ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This Is Official: World's Shortest Man
	Now, it is official: the world's shortest man is a Chinese: the 20-year-old He Pingping. The man is 73 cm (2.4 feet) tall and he is a native of Huade county, Wulanchabu city (in Inner Mongolia province). His father, He Yun, said that, at birth, he had been only the size of an adult's palm. The parents of He are both of normal height. He has two sisters of normal height who are both married now. He Pingping suffers ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth – An Illegal Mapping Service Threatening the National Security
	The Mountain View-based company, Google, is now encountering new problems regarding the imagery provided by Google Earth, as the Chinese authorities seem to be ready to ban lots of mapping services including Google’s. What’s interesting is that the Chinese officials labeled these solutions as ‘illegal’ because they show sensitive information which should be hidden from the public eye. According to an article published in China Daily, th ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Sea Silk Road
	Silk, the highly sought-for item in the ancient Rome, was brought from China by caravans that had to cross thousands of kilometers of deserts, rough terrain and abrupt mountains. To all these, the frequent attacks of the bandits added, in the wild passes of the mountains, on the road whose end was on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. No wonder people looked after a "Sea Silk Road". Even so, the dangers were not eliminat ... [read more >>]
	25 March 2008, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Save Darfur Coalition’s Site Hacked from China
	The Save Darfur Coalition is a non-profit group created to draw attention to the ongoing genocide caused by civil war in western Sudan’s Darfur region. Relying on the strong commercial agreements between China and Sudan, the group is trying to get the Asian country to pressure Sudan’s government into stopping the killing, but so far it has been unsuccessful. Furthermore, they have found their web site hacked and an unauthorized e ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pro-Tibetan Aimed Cyberattacks
	People supporting the Tibetan cause have more to worry about than Chinese censorship and retaliation, there’s a new wave of attacks aimed at them and in many aspects it’s far more dangerous. The human rights groups that are sympathetic to the anti-Chinese protesters are targeted by cybercriminals, and the messages are all designed in such a way that anti-virus tools will not detect them as being malicious. The emails all have ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Online Text Message Spam under Probe
	Spam has followed the natural evolution course of advertising. First designed only for computers, now, as the mobile ads continue to increase in importance, the unwanted messages have ported to the handheld devices in a flash. What better place to target with such an attack than the biggest mobile communications market in the world, China. The scandal currently underway has been dubbed "Text-message Gate" by the Chin ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell Starts the Chinese, Indian Markets Offensive
	System vendor Dell is currently pitching at distributing its PC offerings on the Chinese and Indian markets. According to the company's CEO and founder Michael Dell, the company experiences high demand on the Asian markets. More and more computer manufacturers are designing their products for the Chinese market. Dell and Lenovo are only a few of the PC vendors that introduced low-cost computers targeted at the rural and e ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 21:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Kicks Tibet News off Search
	Compromise is all this life is about for most people. Meeting your better half mid-way in every crisis that might result in tension between you two is the way to resolve everything, and the same goes for any negotiations being held between two companies, when one doesn’t have the upper hand. There’s only one area where compromise should never be an option, and that is the freedom of speech. China has yet to learn that lesson, and ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia