Laptop Futures: Mobiles on Steroids or Notebooks on Atkins
The South China Morning Post reports:
Intel said the market for smaller, low-cost personal computers, some of which can fit in a pocket, could be as big as US$10 billion, driven by demand from emerging and matured markets.
The world’s largest semiconductor maker has launched its smallest ever processors - the Atom range - to power what [...]
Another China Growth Story: Mobile Malware
Enterprise Security Today reports:
A recent mobile-device attack was a Trojan bundled in legitimate files. The mobile-device malware sent out information about the device and shut off other forms of security on the mobile device. McAfee researchers have also seen an attack aimed at Symbian phones. A mobile-phone attack in China shut down the phone until [...]
UnionPay: China’s Mobile Purchasing Specialists
Pacific Epoch reports:
Chinese bank card network operator China UnionPay announced on January 29 that it added 4.95 million handset mobile payment users in 2007 to reach a total of 10 million users by the end of the year. Annual transaction volume for mobile payment, including SMS and SIM-card based POS (point-of-sale) transactions, reached RMB10.8 billion [...]
1.3 Billion Customers are for Suckers
Shanghai Daily reports that Dell has found a local partner to implements its retail sales strategy:
Under the deal, announced yesterday, Dell computers will be marketed in 700 Gome Electrical Appliance stores within three to five months, 70 percent of the chain’s total outlets in China, according to Gome Vice President Wang Junzhou.
There’s a quote from [...]
China Takes a Great Leap Forward in Mobile Payments
According to China Tech News the new Nokia 6131i has gone on sale in Xiamen, Beijing, and Guangzhou. This marks the arrival of the mobile phone industry’s holy grail: the phone as a wallet.
The phone can be seen here.
What’s so special about China in all this?
China is not only the biggest mobile [...]
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