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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Let 1.24 Million Viruses Bloom

China Tech News reports:
According to a report released by Kingsoft, in the first half of 2008, the company intercepted 1.24 million new computer viruses and trojans.
This number increase by 338% compared with the total number in 2007 and it is more than the total virus number of the recent five years.
The report says that in [...]

Kingsoft Gets a Power Surge

China Tech News reports:
State Grid Corporation of China and Kingsoft have reached an agreement for the monolithic State Grid to purchase WPS Office 2007, a office software product from Kingsoft.
With this agreement, all the units of State Grid throughout China, including 31 regional grid corporations and 21 units directly under the State Grid, will use [...]