Ma Fought the Law and the Pirate Software Manufacturer Won
Caijing, a great Chinese business magazine, has an article following up on the Summer Solstice software piracy caper.
Summer Solstice was a joint venture (as it were) between the FBI and the PSB to catch two men who were the distributors of counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec software. The case was a success and the men [...]
Microsoft: A Stone Pecked by Two Birds
The South China Morning Post reports:
Microsoft said it had slashed the price for Office last year Home and Student Edition to 199 yuan (HK$227) from 699 yuan. The promotion, which started on Monday, will last through next week’s National Week holiday.
The price cut is designed to make Microsoft’s products in the mainland more affordable [...]
Kingsoft Sinks AV Pirates
China Tech News reports:
Kingsoft has released its Q2 financial report and interim report, which say that the company’s revenue increased by 42% to CNY346.8 billion in the first half of 2008 with online games and software contributing 66% and 34% of the total revenue, respectively.
…In the first half of 2008, Kingsoft’s software business made revenue [...]
Microsoft Makes Ketchup
China Tech News reports:
Hong Lei, the webmaster of Chinese download website Tomatolei.com and writer of Windows XP Tomato Edition, reportedly has been taken into custody by the Suzhou Public Security Bureau.
Tomatolei.com was founded in 2003 and offers the download of the latest Windows XP Tomato Edition and also other useful software, as well as online [...]
Lawyers: Let’s Play Monopoly
China Tech News reports:
As China’s first anti-monopoly law went into effect on August 1, 2008, Microsoft (MSFT) has been targeted by Chinese IT companies for suspected monopolistic activities and may become the first defendant in a Chinese anti-monopoly lawsuit.
Cao Can, general manager of Evermore Software, told First Financial Daily that the domestic office software producer [...]
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