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 Internet company Sohu.com Inc. today reported its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009, and showed increases in both revenue and profit. Total revenues reached record USD136.6 million, up 13% year-on-year, and brand advertising revenues were USD48.5 million of that total. Online game revenues accounted for USD68.7 million, up 26% year-on-year [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Guangdong Provincial Tourism Bureau and Guangdong Unicom have signed a strategic partnership agreement to boost the tourism development of Guangdong province. Guangdong Unicom will assist the information technology construction of Guangdong's tourism sector making use of its advantages in information technology, networking and services. It will provide tourism enterprises in the province with basic communications and [...]
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. [...]
