Foxconn, the original equipment manufacturer for Apple products, is reportedly expanding its manufacturing capacity in 2012, aiming to increase production for iPhones and iPads to meet the ever-growing market demand. According to reports in Chinese local media, Foxconn is cooperating with the municipal government of Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, to double the number of [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has announced plans to invest up to USD150 million in India in 2012 to promote its business growth. Sures Vaidyanathan, Huawei's spokesperson in India, told local media that Huawei is committed to the long-term development in India, and it will accelerate the development of enterprise business, terminal business, 2G capacity [...]

According to statistics provided by the three major Chinese telecom operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, the number of 3G users largely increased in November 2011, reaching a total of 110 million. China Unicom reported that the number of its newly increased 3G users was over three million for the first time in [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom announced its strategic focus for 2012 and said it will focus on the sales of phones with the prices between CNY1,000 and CNY2,000. On December 12, 2011, China Unicom and ZTE, the Chinese telecom equipment maker, jointly launched a customized phone named Skate V960, which is recognized as a strategic [...]

Li Wang, executive vice president of the Chinese mobile phone brand Coolpad, revealed that the company plans to completely stop manufacturing mobile phones and non-smartphone devices in 2012. Instead, the company will try to focus only on smartphone manufacturing. Li told local media that Coolpad's mobile device shipments in the entire year of 2011 is [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced plans to cut 17,000 employees around the world by the end of 2013, including about 4,000 mainland Chinese employees. This is reportedly the largest layoff in the history of Nokia Siemens. According to the company, it had about 74,000 employees worldwide by November 1, 2011, which means one out of [...]

From January to August 2011, China manufactured 699 million mobile phones, an increase of 19.3% from last year according to latest statistics released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The ministry said that during the first eight months of 2011, the production and sales within the Chinese communications device industry recovered rapidly. In [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has reached an agreement with Brazilian local enterprises to produce tablet computers in the country. The news was disclosed by Hou Weigui, president of ZTE, while meeting with Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil. Hou told local media that ZTE has established close cooperation relationships with Brazilian [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has signed a five-year global strategic cooperation framework agreement with the leading Asian operator Axiata. This agreement reportedly served as a procurement platform agreement, under which ZTE will supply communications products to Axiata and its subsidiary Opcos. The five-year global strategic cooperation framework agreement aims to [...]

Taiwan-based PC maker Acer has appointed Jim Wong, former president for Acer's IT products group, as its new corporate president. Born in 1958, Wong holds a bachelor degree, majoring in mathematics from Soochow University in Taiwan, and an MBA from Emory University, Georgia, USA. Joining Acer in 1986, Wong has experience in sales, product marketing, [...]

The U.S.-based mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. will invest nearly USD1 billion to build a new display panel plant in Taiwan in 2011. According reports in foreign media, Taiwan's government said that the new plant, which will produce display panels used in mobile phones and electronic readers, will be located in Hsinchu. However, it did [...]

Chinese technology and telecommunications firm Huawei will invest USD67 million in a new research and development center in Canada. "Huawei's investment is great news for the city of Ottawa and the people of Ontario. It's an endorsement of Ontario's high-skilled workers and innovative researchers, and demonstrates the importance of our continued efforts to work together [...]

Taiwanese networking equipment giant AboCom System Inc. has announced in Zhengzhou, Henan, that it will invest CNY2 billion to establish a 3G mobile phone technology industry base in the city. Eric Ouyang, chairman of AboCom, revealed that the company signed an agreement with Zhengzhou High & New Technology Industries Development Zone for the establishment of [...]

China's "shanzhai" mobile phone manufacturers are planning to bring their production facilities to India to gain recognition of India's huge mobile phone market and obtain legal status for their products in India.
The word "shanzhai" or "shanzai", literally meaning "remote village" in Cantonese, has become a popular name for Chinese fakes and the slang now refers [...]

Nagpur, a city in central India, has started to cut the network access of some [...]

Sun Danyong, a 25-year old employee in Shenzhen of Foxconn, the manufacturer for Apple's iPhone, has committed suicide reportedly over mistreatment he received after a iPhone prototype was lost.
According to local Chinese media, Sun, who had been handling a shipment of 16 iPhone prototypes, was investigated by Foxconn's Central Security Division after one of the [...]

According to the statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's mobile phone output decreased by 11.2% year-on-year in the first two months of 2009 and its mobile phone exports decreased by 17.2% during the same period, the largest decline over the past few years.
The statistics from MIIT show that in January and [...]

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a report on China's electronics manufacturing industry in the first two months of 2009, which states that the country's mobile phone output decreased by 11.2% during the period.
The MIIT says affected by the global financial crisis, both the manufacturing and export of China's electronics products have [...]

U.S.-based Qualcomm (QCOM) has granted China's LT Mobile Communication a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units implementing the CDMA2000 standard.

OKI has bought out its partner's share of Changzhou OKI-GEG Telecoms Ltd, a joint company established in 1997 by OKI and Jiangsu Guoguang Electronic Information Technology.