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Article | 29/04/2009 Blu-ray Disc faces local competitor, piracy in China

China could gradually become a big market for Blu-ray Disc, but for now the optical disc format faces the problems of thrifty buyers, piracy and a com...

Article | 28/04/2009 China's Baidu forecasts return to sales growth

Top Chinese search engine Baidu forecast a recovery in its ad sales this spring as it reported a second consecutive decline in quarterly revenue on Tu...

Article | 24/04/2009 China pushes its own blue-laser optical discs

Chinese manufacturers hope to sell hundreds of thousands of optical disc players for a locally developed next-generation disc format this year, a spok...

Article | 22/04/2009 Microsoft executive sees rise of tablets, 'room computer'

Technology that changes how people give commands to computers could make touch-based PCs more popular and transform the traditional desktop into a "ro...

Article | 23/04/2009 Pay-as-you-go a way around piracy, Microsoft says

Microsoft could reduce losses from software piracy by expanding pay-as-you-go plans like those it has tested in developing countries, a company execut...

Article | 20/04/2009 Massive server purchase likely in Chinese Warcraft deal

Chinese online game firm NetEase.com will buy all-new servers to start operating World of Warcraft in China this year, potentially leaving masses of u...

Article | 14/04/2009 Analyst: Dell in smartphone talks with China Mobile

Dell is in talks with China Mobile to offer a smartphone based on the carrier's mobile operating system, a move that would take Dell into a huge but c...

Article | 1/04/2009 China denies cyber spy network charges

China on Tuesday denied suggestions it could be involved in a cyberespionage ring that attacked computers worldwide from servers mostly based in the c...

Article | 31/03/2009 Google expands free music downloads in China

Google has expanded the free music downloads it offers in China to include songs by artists from each of the big four U.S. record labels, an addition ...

Article | 26/03/2009 High demand for virtualization in China, VMware says

VMware will expand in China as it moves to meet rising demand for desktop and data center virtualization in the country, a company executive said in a...

Article | 13/03/2009 IBM develops Facebook privacy application

IBM on Thursday unveiled an application that guides users toward strong privacy settings in Facebook's online marketplace and could be developed into ...

Article | 12/03/2009 AOL closes China R&D base as economy slides

America Online will close a research and development base in Beijing but keep trying to break into China's market amid the sliding global economy.

Article | 11/03/2009 Google blocks popular iPhone SMS app

Google will block an iPhone application that harnesses its Google Talk chat program to provide a free text-message service after too many users flocke...