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Article | 18/11/2011 Small Taiwanese firms finally get some new Android code

Some of Taiwan's smaller manufacturers said they were relieved to see Google release the source code for its Android 4.0 operating system, after being...

Article | 18/11/2011 US committee to investigate China's Huawei, ZTE

A US House Intelligence Committee is launching an investigation against Chinese telecommunication equipment suppliers Huawei and ZTE to find whether t...

Article | 16/11/2011 Apple to audit suppliers after pollution concerns, groups say

Apple plans to hire a third-party auditing firm to investigate 15 of its suppliers suspected of violating environmental regulations, according to loca...

Article | 16/11/2011 China Mobile, China Unicom back NFC technology

China Mobile and China Unicom, two of the country's largest mobile operators, said they plan to bring SIM card-based Near Field Communication (NFC) te...

Article | 15/11/2011 SAP to invest US$2 billion in China expansion

SAP announced on Tuesday it will spend more than US$2 billion over the next four years to expand its business in China, with plans to almost double th...

Article | 15/11/2011 Microsoft to preview Windows 8 Embedded in first quarter 2012

Microsoft will start allowing developers to preview Windows 8 Embedded in the first quarter of next year, with plans to eventually release its embedde...

Article | 14/11/2011 IBM to build e-commerce research labs for Chinese retailer

IBM has reached a deal with Chinese electronics retailer Suning Appliance to build research centers in China and the U.S. meant to develop e-commerce ...

Article | 11/11/2011 China Telecom plans to launch mobile service in US

China Telecom plans to launch a mobile service in the U.S. geared for Chinese-Americans, students and tourists who frequently travel between both coun...

Article | 9/11/2011 China's Sina will not force users to register with real names

One of China's most popular Twitter-like services, Sina Weibo, said it needs better systems to stop harmful rumors on the site, but doesn't intend to ...

Article | 7/11/2011 China's Internet firms vow to tighten regulation of Web

China's top IT firms have pledged to step up the regulation of their services as government authorities have intensified calls to control the developm...

Article | 4/11/2011 Foxconn's parent may be planning to make robots

The parent of Apple supplier Foxconn has broken ground on a new R&D (research and development) facility in Taiwan to produce what could be robots ...

Article | 4/11/2011 France's Viadeo taps China for professional social networking

Professional social networking sites, which once only attracted a small number of users in China, are now in the midst of taking off in the country, a...

Article | 2/11/2011 Lenovo's third quarter profit grew 88 percent

Lenovo's profit for the third quarter nearly doubled year on year as the company continued its fast-paced growth, beating Dell to become the world's s...

Article | 2/11/2011 China's Alibaba invests $157M in own search engine

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is investing 1 billion yuan (US$157 million) in its eTao shopping search engine, as part of an effort to turn i...

Article | 1/11/2011 China's group buying sites mainly 'sinking ships', fighting for profits

Nearly all of China's over 5,000 group buying sites will eventually go under as tough competition and diminishing cash reserves force them to fold, ac...