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Although Nokia has not confirmed yet the existence of an N79 smartphone, an N79 wannabe has already appeared on the Chinese market. When it comes to design and overall look, the handset is very similar to the real N79, which was spotted at the beginning of June, in two color versions (white and black). When it comes ... |
19 August 2008
07:04 GMT |
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If a cheap Ferrari mobile phone is not exactly what you need, maybe a Mercedes Benz fits your tastes better. Of course, such a handset would first need to exist and to be commercially available, but that's not a problem anymore: a Chinese manufacturer has come up with COOLF5, a mobile phone that mimics the look ... |
6 August 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Iusacell, the only full-CDMA mobile carrier from Mexico, announced that it now provides roaming services across China, just in time for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games that will debut on the 8th of August. The services are offered together with Aicent, Inc., a California-based company, which deployed its C... |
6 August 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Technologies that enable people to stay in touch with major sports events, as the Olympic Games are, have been available for decades. This year's situation - with the Olympics taking place in a communist country, implies certain special measures to ensure the liberty of speech is not infringed upon. Although Chi... |
29 July 2008
05:18 GMT |
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Motorola VE75, the newest touchscreen handset announced by Moto for the Chinese market, was recently spotted in lots of live images, which show the VE75 in all its greatness. Of course, the handset's beauty (or ugliness, if you will) is up to each and every user to decide upon, but I don't think there ar... |
28 July 2008
09:02 GMT |
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ZTC, a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer, has recently unveiled its latest touchscreen handset, named ZT598 and which comes with a weird design.The new ZT598 is not a full-touch phone, as its main display is only a 2.8 inch regular one. Instead, it hides a 1-inch touch-enabled screen under its alphanumeric keypad, wh... |
24 July 2008
09:56 GMT |
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The FCC has approved these days a new Motorola phone, which is named Motorola Ischia (or Motorola EM330) and comes as an entry-level clamshell. This is the second Motorola handset to have "EM" in its name, after the EM30, which might mean the American company is preparing a new series of phones (or at least a new nam... |
23 July 2008
11:49 GMT |
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Freedom of speech was, once again, violated by the Chinese state, as the association Reporters without Borders claims. The human rights group reports about the arrest of Du Daobin, a cyber-dissident who is accused of publishing more than 100 articles defying China on the Internet. This is not Daobin's first enc... |
23 July 2008
08:28 GMT |
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The 8 Megapixel "mobile battle" is slowly but surely heating up, with Sony Ericsson and Samsung already in the game, and Motorola rumored to unveil its 8 MP handset soon. Now we have a new 8 Megapixel phone, but this time it does not come from a major company. Named X908, the new monster camera phone comes from Chin... |
22 July 2008
10:58 GMT |
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While in China earlier this year, a senior adviser to Gordon Brown, who has yet to be named, managed to have his Blackberry device stolen after spending the night with a Chinese woman that approached him in a night-club in Shanghai. Although data loss incidents are quite common in the UK lately, the only punitive mea... |
21 July 2008
11:00 GMT |
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Staying true to its leading position in the mobile handset industry, Samsung has recently unveiled a new high-end touchscreen phone, named Samsung D980. This seems to be a slightly changed version of the F480 TouchWiz, which is already on sale across Europe and Asia, and comes shortly after the unveiling of i8510, th... |
21 July 2008
05:50 GMT |
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Motorola has recently unveiled a new touchscreen mobile phone targeted for the Chinese market: Motorola VE75. The handset comes after Moto has officially released the A1600 and A1800 Ming clamshells as well as the A810 candybar, all three of them being touchscreen enabled and available only across China. The VE75 wa... |
18 July 2008
12:45 GMT |
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As of yesterday, the 17th of July, the ISC (Internet Society of China) has officially set the basis for an antispam text message alliance. The 574 million mobile phone users from the country have more than welcomed the initiative, considering the fact that China is plagued by more than 350 billion text spam messages ... |
18 July 2008
10:30 GMT |
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Neonode, the Sweden-based telecoms company, announced today that its fashionable Neonode N2 touchscreen mobile phone has received yet another set of enhancements, in addition to the firmware update released yesterday. From now on, the Neonode N2 will also feature a Chinese XT9 text input interface (phrase prediction ... |
17 July 2008
09:09 GMT |
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After the TyTN II got cloned (and downgraded when it comes to functionality), now the newest HTC Pocket PC, the Touch Diamond, has an illegitimate brother too. Named Diamond J6, the Touch Diamond clone comes from China (as most of the copycat handsets) and it can easily be mistaken for a genuine HTC Pocket PC. At ... |
17 July 2008
06:10 GMT |
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A man from the eastern province of Jiangsu has been found guilty of hacking into the Red Cross website that was collecting funds for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. A court of law issued a sentence of 24 months of incarceration time and a fine of 5,000 Yuan (which is roughly about $731 or £370).The hacker... |
12 July 2008
04:26 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the website dealing with news and information about Apple Inc.'s retail stores worldwide, is reporting that Apple has officially announced the grand opening of its first China retail store on July 19th at 10 a.m. The same source also reports that this week has seen the Apple Store Birmingham (Ala.... |
10 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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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 ... |
9 July 2008
03:23 GMT |
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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 mark... |
8 July 2008
09:24 GMT |
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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... |
8 July 2008
02:20 GMT |
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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... |
24 June 2008
08:50 GMT |
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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 App... |
18 June 2008
04:43 GMT |
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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 targeted exclusively for China, in a ... |
6 June 2008
11:59 GMT |
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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 largest mobile operator in the country. The ... |
4 June 2008
05:51 GMT |
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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 has committed to ... |
29 May 2008
12:41 GMT |
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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 sca... |
26 May 2008
10:44 GMT |
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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... |
22 May 2008
08:50 GMT |
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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 SGH-L288... |
22 May 2008
04:55 GMT |
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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 at... |
21 May 2008
06:43 GMT |
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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 belonging to visitors. Si... |
21 May 2008
05:01 GMT |
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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 al... |
20 May 2008
04:48 GMT |
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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 Internet. Ho... |
19 May 2008
06:28 GMT |
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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 also see satellite imagery of China's 7.9 magnitude e... |
19 May 2008
03:56 GMT |
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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 magnit... |
16 May 2008
05:52 GMT |
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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 ... |
15 May 2008
05:13 GMT |
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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, Sony Ericsson's Walkman phone made available jus... |
14 May 2008
12:29 GMT |
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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 had only a few details about the X800 until n... |
13 May 2008
09:44 GMT |
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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 it appears on the FCC website. The handset was first spotted in the middle of April (when Motorola's roadmap for China was unveiled),... |
13 May 2008
05:57 GMT |
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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 f... |
12 May 2008
03:38 GMT |
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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-... |
12 May 2008
02:55 GMT |
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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 ... |
8 May 2008
03:36 GMT |
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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 som... |
7 May 2008
06:36 GMT |
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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 needs. Part of the AnyCal... |
7 May 2008
05:45 GMT |
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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... |
30 April 2008
09:57 GMT |
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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... |
30 April 2008
02:12 GMT |
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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 fashion and a music phone. M600's highlights include the SRS WOW technology for the be... |
25 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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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 bo... |
25 April 2008
07:33 GMT |
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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 also become "wanted" in Europe and the US. ... |
19 April 2008
06:20 GMT |
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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 th... |
17 April 2008
10:58 GMT |
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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 actual... |
17 April 2008
06:18 GMT |
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