Taiwanese PC maker Acer will launch its online application store in 2011. Gianfranco Lanci, CEO of Acer, revealed to media that Acer's application store will support the full range of Acer products, including PCs, smartphones, and tablet computers. At the same time, its applications can be run on equipment using various operating systems, including Google's [...]
China Unicom has reportedly started the public test of its online application store Wostore and the platform will be formally put into operation later this month. With the formal launch of Wostore, China's three major telecom operators will all have their own application stores. At the same time, the online application market will become a [...]
Chinese social networking site Renren.com, previously known as Xiaonei.com, has reached strategic cooperation with the international mobile phone maker Nokia. Under the agreement signed by the two parties, Nokia will provide Renren.com's widget services in its latest released 3G mobile phones, N97 mini and N97i. With the pre-installed application program, users of Nokia's N97 mini and [...]
Microsoft and over 90 mobile communication partners have jointly announced at a conference held in Beijing that the first batch of 17 types of Windows phones will be launched in China at the end of 2009. Microsoft's partners include telecom operators; 12 mobile phone manufacturers such as LG, Samsung, and Dopod; and over 70 software developers [...]
Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president in charge of global mobile search business, has announced in Beijing that the company will officially launch its Chinese mobile phone voice search service in the following weeks. This new service, which will be initially applied on Nokia's S60 platform, will save users the trouble of inputting words with mobile phones. [...]
China Mobile, one of the major mobile communications solution providers in China, has issued a bulletin which states that the company will launch an initiative on its MobileMarket platform to reward mobile application developers and to promote the online business of mobile application. The reward is available to all registered developers of China Mobile's developer community. [...]
Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has announced that it will formally start to sell Apple's iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS handsets in mainland China from October 30, 2009. Prior to this announcement, China Unicom launched a 24-month contract program for the iPhone products. Binding with a two-year iPhone contract, consumers will gain preferential offers when buying [...]
Chinese electronics and home appliances maker TCL Group has announced its sales statistics for August 2009. According to the statistics, TCL Group sold 807,561 LCD TVs during the reporting period, a year-on-year increase of 176.3%; it sold 563,395 CRT TVs, a decrease of 39.1% over the previous year; and it sold 2,600,450 audio-visual products, a year-on-year [...]
China Mobile and the Symbian Foundation have inked a deal for cooperation on services for TD-SCDMA. The first partnership initiative is the simplification of Symbian Signed testing services for developers submitting applications to China Mobile's newly launched application store, Mobile Market. The inclusion of Symbian Signed services will allow China Mobile to provide mobile developers with [...]
Following the launch of a joint platform for dealing with spam mobile short messages in June 2009, the three major telecom operators in China have now each worked out their respective spam SMS screening services to help users block unwanted short messages. Among them, China Telecom just formally launched a short message filtering service for its [...]
