Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has signed an agreement with the Belgian wireless Internet equipment maker Option, to acquire all issued shares of M4S, Option's wholly-owned semiconductor company. M4S is currently developing a state-of-the-art, next-generation radio frequency chipset to be used in 4G devices. Option initiated a process in July 2010 to sell M4S to [...]

China UnionPay has collaborated with commercial banks, mobile communication operators, and mobile phone manufactures for the establishment of the Mobile Payment Industry Alliance in China.
The Mobile Payment Industry Alliance aims to break the barriers in different industries to set up a platform for communication and close coordination for Internet payment services. Parties of the alliance [...]

China Mobile's Beijing branch and the Beijing-based hypermarket retailer Wumart Stores have signed a strategicmore….

UClink Media along with GD-HK RFID Alliance, GS1 Hong Kong and EPCglobal Hong Kong will jointly host the first China International RFID Technologies and Applications Show in Logistics, Manufacturing and Anti-counterfeiting on June, 2009, at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center Hall 3.

Retail giant Wal-Mart has announced plans to adopt radio frequency identification for products supplied by its Chinese suppliers from January 2009.

Advanced ID's Hong Kong subsidiary, Advanced ID Asia Pacific, says it will acquire Shenzhen DDCT Technology, which specializes in development, production, and sales of RFID/UHF hardware, including UHF readers, and antenna tags throughout Asia.

Advanced ID's Hong Kong subsidiary, Advanced ID Asia Pacific, says it will acquire Shenzhen DDCT Technology, which specializes in development, production, and sales of RFID/UHF hardware, including UHF readers, and antenna tags throughout Asia.

Motorola (MOT) has deployed a campus-wide WLAN for Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications to enable multimedia Internet-based teaching, automatic academic office management, Internet access, and long-distance teaching.

Blue Bamboo says its Chinese partner KuaiPay has designed and integrated a closed loop contactless payment system for the Holland Heineken House, which is located in the Nongzhanguan area of Beijing.

Fujitsu and Fujitsu Frontech Limited announced at the Fujitsu International Forum 2008 that they would sell their super high frequency waterproof RFID tags in overseas markets, including China, starting May.

According to Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, a total of more than 16 million tickets embedded with RFID chips will be used during the Beijing Olympic Games and this is the first time that RFID has ever been used for the Olympic Games.

According to Chinabyte.com, Cisco and Motorola may enter Guangdong's Foshan Innovation Industry Park as RFID solution providers.

China Telecom will initiate a new round of bidding in the 21 provinces in southern China to speed up the development of Wi-Fi base stations.

As part of its site preparation activities for the 2010 World Exposition, Shanghai Pudong Gas Company has begun installing 3M Dynatel Electronic Marking System "marker balls" that use radio frequency identification to transmit the identity and precise location of pipes, valves, bends, T-connectors and other components of buried infrastructure assets.

Emirates Airline is partnering with London Heathrow, Dubai International and Hong Kong International airports, to trial the latest RFID technology in baggage handling.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority says the government has decided to invest HK$200 million in the coming two years on the construction of Wi-Fi facilities, which will be provided to users free of charge.

Shanghai has formally initiated the construction of Wi-Fi with the signing of a wireless city agreement for Jiading District.

picoChip announced the PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell base station reference design, the first to support this standard.

WJ Communications, a supplier of radio frequency products and solutions for the wireless infrastructure and radio frequency identification reader markets, announced it will start shipping TD-SCDMA Multi Chip Module chipsets to China in the first quarter of 2008.

Secured Digital Applications, a global provider of business process outsourcing services and systems integrator for Radio Frequency Identification and Global Positioning System enabled tracking applications, announced that it was awarded a US$2.82 million contract to install and maintain a real-time GPS fleet tracking management system for 1100 trucks owned by … Read More>>