Free-of-charge Wi-Fi services are now reportedly available in the main city area of Hangzhou. Wu Lihui, general manager for wireless planning department of Wasu Digital TV, explained that at present, there are two types of Wi-Fi services provided to citizens and tourists in Hangzhou. For users who use mobile phones to access the wireless Internet, [...]

The Internet video channel of the Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com and the Taiwan-based PC maker Asus have jointly announced that the two parties have formed a strategic partnership for a video service. Under the agreement of the two parties, Sohu's video contents will be implanted into Asus' products, covering PCs and tablet computers. Meanwhile, they [...]

ChinaCache International Holdings Limited, a provider of content delivery network services in China, has reached an agreement with the Shanghai branch of China Telecom Corporation Limited to provide acceleration supporting services to the latter. Under the agreement, ChinaCache will support China Telecom Shanghai's deployment and usage of acceleration supporting servers to maximize end-user experience and [...]

Chinese technology giant Lenovo Group held a launch ceremony in Beijing to announce a new cloud computing strategy, a new smartphone, a tablet computer, a new personal computer, and TV products. Its new personal cloud product can realize three types of services, including personal information management, interconnectivity, and social networking. Lenovo will also reportedly provide [...]

Cloudary Corporation, the wholly-owned Internet literature subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, has announced a strategic investment in Byread.com, a Chinese mobile reading platform, and the two parties will implement cooperation in providing copyrighted contents in China. According to official statistics from Cloudary, at present Cloudary has put over 10,000 books on the client of [...]

Chinese mobile browser developer UCWeb has officially established a new subsidiary in New Delhi, India, and the company launched its latest UCWeb 8.0 version for Android in the country. Yu Yongfu, chairman and chief executive officer of UC, said that they see great traction in the Indian mobile Internet space, especially with the increase in [...]

Chinese online media and entertainment company Sohu.com Inc. announced record total revenues of USD233 million, up 42% year-over-year and 17% quarter-over-quarter, as it reported its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011. Total online advertising revenues which include revenues from brand advertising and its search engine Sogou.com business were USD95 million, [...]

Proving that fairness ends at the Great Firewall, Chinese video website Tudou.com announced that it has reached agreement with China Telecom to increase the video upload speed on Tudou.com for users in Shanghai. According to local media reports, Tudou.com said with the cooperation, China Telecom's fiber network users in Shanghai will enjoy about 4 Mb/S [...]

Digerati in China's capital city are set to welcome free wireless surfing beginning November 2011. The first seven regions within the city to have the service include Xidan, Wangfujing, the Olympic area, the three major train stations, Financial Street, Yansha, and the Zhongguancun Avenue area. They will have free-of-charge Wi-Fi access by the end of [...]

Beijing technology entrepreneurs and software firms should shut their doors and turn off the lights, as Microsoft China might be aiming at hiring away some top young talent. With the launch of a campus recruitment activity in Peking University, Microsoft China has started its newest recruitment round for the 2012 fiscal year and the company [...]

China Unicom has completed its first cloud computing procurement project, and four manufacturers won the bidding for various aspects of the project. In 2009, China Unicom established its cloud computing research team and the company started the procurement of desktop cloud platforms from October 2010. After over 2,000 reported tests, including maturity, reliability, and ease [...]

Alipay.com, Alibaba's third-party Internet payment subsidiary, and Newegg.com.cn, the Chinese branch of the U.S.-based Internet electronics and digital products retailer, have reportedly formed a strategic partnership. According to reports in Chinese local media, the two parties will enhance their cooperation in market operations. The will promote convenient login and convenient payments; and the two companies [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has announced its eSurfing cloud computing strategy, brand, and solution, and it plans to launch eSurfing cloud devices and cloud storage products in 2012. China Telecom established a cloud computing project team in 2009 and the company has completed tests in Shanghai, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi. According to Yang Jie, [...]

Chinese Internet company Tencent has announced at its e-commerce annual meeting that the company plans to launch a B2B2C platform in the fourth quarter of 2011. The new platform is currently under development. It will adopt a new brand logo and will be operated synchronously with Tencent's existing C2C website, Paipai.com. Wu Xiaoguang, senior executive [...]

Chinese online firm Linktone Ltd. announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011, and said both that its revenue dropped in the past and will most likely continue to fall in the future. The company's gross revenues for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011, were a mere USD14 million, down [...]

Chinese online media and mobile value-added services firm Sina Corporation says its profit fell more than 50% as it announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. While the company's net revenues grew 20% year over year to USD119.0 million, net income attributable to Sina for the second quarter of [...]

Nokia has announced that starting from August 19, 2011, it will terminate its Ovi email and chat room services on the Chinese mainland. Nokia said in emails sent to users that their mobile Ovi email accounts will be shut after August 19 and they will not be able to visit their Ovi emails or send [...]

Chinese classified information website Ganji.com has updated its mobile client from the 1.0 version to 2.0, aiming to provide users with a better mobile Internet experience. Yang Haoyong, chief executive officer of Ganji.com, said that the company has invested a lot since the founding of its mobile Internet business department in September 2010. However, they [...]

Chinese Internet giant Tencent has announced that it is cooperating with China Telecom and five mobile phone manufacturers in the launch of six smartphone products, which have the embedded QQ-service platforms. These six smartphone products are made by five Chinese mobile phone makers, including Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad, K-Touch, and Hisense. Based on China Telecom's CDMA [...]

The microblog channel of Sina.com and China Telecom have signed an agreement to implement a cooperation for products based on the microblog services at Sina.com. Under the agreement, China Telecom's eSurfing users, broadband users, and fixed-line users will be able to log onto Sina microblog with their China Telecom accounts; meanwhile, China Telecom will open [...]