NDRC & IPv6: Hey Sixy, Where You Goin’?
China Tech News reports:
The National Development and Reform Commission of China has released a special notice on the commercial trial and the equipment industrialization of IPv6 on its official website.
…The notice says that to actively promote the application and the industry development of China’s next-generation Internet business, a commercial trial of the next-generation Internet business [...]
Pricing TD-HSDPA in Shanghai
I was over in Pudong visiting a client the other day and, when I noticed a China Mobile shop, went in to ask about HSDPA devices.
It’s not as cheap as I would have thought.
The USB dongle itself was RMB700 (about US$100). The SIM card was an additional RMB120.
5RMB gets you 30MB of data traffic
20 [...]
Microsoft: The Pitter-Patter of Lawyer’s Feet
The South China Morning Post reports:
The Ministry of Commerce has accepted an appeal that claimed Microsoft Corp broke the country’s newly promulgated anti-monopoly law, a move likely to start an investigation into the United States software giant, according to the Legal Daily.
Dong Zhengwei, a lawyer with Tang Law Group, sent a letter to the ministry, [...]
Googlepack Goes Native
Pacific Epoch reports:
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) China released a Chinese version of the “Google Pack” free software bundle on August 15, reports DoNews. The Chinese version of the downloadable bundle includes China-specific offerings including Google and Kingsoft’s (3888.HK) co-branded version of translation software PowerWord, Google’s Chinese pinyin input software, Rising’s anti-virus software and Google’s toolbar for [...]
TD-SCDMA: Ix-nay on the Rap-cay Andsets-hay
Marbridge Daily reports:
After receiving a free TD-SCDMA handset on August 6, a friendly user in China Mobile’s (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) commercial TD-SCDMA trials discovered that his handset, a Panda TD988, would not power-on. When visiting China Mobile’s authorized repair center he found another 20 people also looking to repair their Panda handsets. However they [...]
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