Two weeks after signing an agreement to become the sole distributor of Apple iPhones in China, China Unicom has purchased 5 billion units of the mobile phones for more than US$1.46 billion (RMB10 billion), the International Business Times reported, citing reports in local media. The phones will be available in September at 3G stalls in […]
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China’s industry and information technology minister said the government will not require personal computers to be sold with "Green Dam-Youth Escort" internet-filtration software already installed, the Wall Street Journal reported. However, Li Yizhong said the software will continue to be installed on computers intended for schools, internet cafes and other public places. Li asserted that […]
Lenovo is the computer company that was bought from IBM when it was trying to rationalize the way it worked. The biggest stakeholder in this buyout was Legend Holdings which thus became the parent company of Lenovo. Times are not easy for personal computers. Lenovo does very well in China. Not so well outside. Our […]
China’s second-largest media conglomerate, Shanghai Media Group (SMG), has established a new media partnership with Xinhua News Agency. Under the agreement, Xinhua will provide self-produced content to SMG’s mobile TV and internet protocol television (IPTV) operation subsidiaries Shanghai Dragon New Media and BesTV. Xinhua seriously added television program production to its newsgathering activities recently and […]
We have a new national crisis, and it is "sexting." For those unfamiliar with the term, it refers to the sending of sexually explicit messages — anything from a dirty joke, to a nude photo — via a cellphone. As the China Daily reported yesterday Henan Province is cracking down on dirty text messages with […]