China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a report for the operational state of the Chinese communication industry for the first nine months of 2010, stating that the country's mobile communication revenue reached CNY465.1 billion during the nine months, a year-on-year increase of 12%. According to statistics provided by the MIIT, from January [...]
China's ZTE Corporation has received validation from the U.S.-based National Institute of Standards and Technology in regards to 140-2 Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program in wireless infrastructure equipment. ZTE is the first Chinese telecom provider ever to receive the NIST FIPS 140-2 security validation. Falling under the U.S. Federal Information Security Management Act, NIST is the [...]
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 online gaming firm The9 has announced that it plans to introduce the game-oriented social networking site OpenFeint into the Chinese market before the end of 2010. At the beginning of July 2010, The9 reached an investment agreement with Aurora Feint, an American mobile game developer and the developer and operator of OpenFeint, and the [...]
Chinese consumers seeking an easy way to purchase the new iPad or iPhone now have an easier path to part with their money. Apple has launched the Apple Store in China, and the company now offers Chinese consumers an online method to purchase products. "We are thrilled to open our newest online store in China," [...]
According to Telefonica, the leading telecommunications operator in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, the company has completed its stock swap with the Chinese telecom operator China Unicom. Under the agreement signed by Chang Xiaobing, chairman of China Unicom, and Cesar Alierta, chairman of Telefonica, in Beijing at the beginning of September 2009, the two parties agreed [...]
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 [...]
Two major Chinese telecom operators, China Mobile and China Telecom, have published their respective financial reports for the first three quarters of 2009. According to the financial report of China Mobile, during the three quarters ended September 30, 2009, it made revenue of CNY326.977 billion, an increase of 8.9% compared with the same period of last [...]
Chinese telecom operator China Mobile and the University of Cambridge have signed a cooperation memorandum to jointly establish a research and development entity. This is the first time for China Mobile to implement an R&D communication and cooperation with a British university. The memorandum confirms the two parties' intension to enhance exchanges in the next three years. [...]
Jiangxi Communication Administration has issued a notice to basic communication operating enterprises in the province, stating that it bans the signing of exclusive communication construction agreements. This move aims to better promote joint construction and sharing of telecommunication infrastructures in Jiangxi and to fully integrate telecom resources of these basic telecom operating enterprises. It also encourages [...]
