When Codes of Conduct Collide
Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports:
U.S. technology giants Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, in talks with other Internet companies and human-rights groups, have reached an agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for activities in China and other restrictive countries, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
In separate letters sent to Democratic Senator Richard [...]
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 [...]
TD-SCDMA Inside Dell Laptops
The South China Morning Post reports:
Datang Mobile Communications Equipment, one of the mainland’s leading homegrown 3G mobile technology developers, yesterday announced partnerships with software giant Microsoft and computer maker Dell to expand products and applications for the new platform.
The news came as China Mobile Communications Corp, which operates TD-SCDMA trial services in 10 cities, is [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft: We’re Not Abnormal, We’re on Sale
Trading Markets reports:
Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT)’s Office 2007 will be sold at half prices in the company’s online stores and franchised stores in China from July 1, 2008.
It is the second unilateral price change of the computer technology giant after it sold Windows XP operating systems at half prices through distributors like Beijing Federal Software [...]
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