Shang-Fi, Baby!
Shanghai Daily reports:
SHANGHAI will have established a citywide wireless broadband network by 2010, probably the first city in the Chinese mainland to do this, the local IT commission and a telecommunication operator said yesterday.
…Shanghai Telecom and the commission signed agreements yesterday for the construction of the wireless network, which will allow anyone to access broadband [...]
Raiders of the Lost Router
China Tech News reports:
The results have been announced of an ongoing international enforcement initiative between the United States and Canada that targets the illegal distribution of counterfeit network hardware manufactured in China.
This ongoing initiative has resulted in more than 400 seizures of counterfeit Cisco network hardware and labels with an estimated retail value of more [...]
3Com Deal: Huawei is Mad as Hell
The Financial Times reports:
The Chinese company participating in the planned buy-out of a US telecoms equipment maker has angrily rounded on US politicians who claim the deal could endanger US national security.
Xu Zhijun, chief marketing officer at Huawei Technologies, told the Financial Times that the concerns expressed by some US lawmakers were “bullshitâ€.
Mr. Xu’s zesty [...]
Lenovo Goes for Online PC Retailing
China Tech News reports:
Ma Chong, general manager of Lenovo Greater China’s Commercial Desktop Computer Marketing Department, says that Lenovo has noticed that online selling is taking a larger proportion of its sales and the company is discussing plans on recruiting some online agents for its PC products.
…Ma discloses to Chinese media that Lenovo is negotiating [...]
H3C: Chinese Networking Firm Seeks Partners for NSA Relationships
3Com’s H3C has found some new partners for its open architecture initiative. Shanghai Daily reports:
H3C launched a platform called OAA (open application architecture) with Intel, Beijing Rising and Beijing DHC Digital Technology in Shanghai yesterday, which provides IP storage, enterprise-level security, data network and video monitor functions.
H3C , which provides core-technologies of the platform, [...]