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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Apple will reportedly open its first specialty store in Hong Kong on September 24, 2011. According to reports in Chinese local media, the new Apple store will reportedly be located inside the International Finance Center Mall, which has four floors of shopping area and over 200 vendors. With over 300 employees, the new Apple store [...]

Chinese mainland telecom equipment maker Huawei has submitted applications to the Taiwan government to set up a new subsidiary in Taiwan. According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the new subsidiary aims at enhancing cooperation relationship between Huawei and the Taiwan industry chain. This move makes Huawei the first mainland telecom equipment maker that has [...]

Ericsson's roadshow for its integrated TV solutions has been officially started in Shanghai and this activity will cover 12 cities in China, showcasing the company's latest technologies and solutions for integrated TV. According to the plan, the series of roadshows will be held in 12 Chinese cities from March to May 2011, covering Shanghai, Nanjing, [...]

ZTE Corporation will soon jointly introduce China Unicom's multi-platform, multi-device application store called the "WoStore" into Hong Kong. "With a unique advantageous WCDMA network, China Unicom is optimistic about the potential of its WoStore service," said ZTE Vice President Yu Yifang. "ZTE is honored to be the sole partner for the online service platform and [...]

A representative from China Unicom's product innovation department revealed that the operator's mobile phone payment service is undergoing trial use in four cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chongqing, and the service will be formally put into commercial use in these cities from November 2010. The representative said that China Unicom's mobile phone payment service [...]

Apple has announced that it will start to sell its new-generation smartphone iPhone 4 in mainland China from 08:00, September 25, 2010. The new iPhone 4 products will be sold at the Apple Stores at Shanghai's Hong Kong Plaza and Beijing's Xidan Joy City. At the same time, the products will be available at China [...]

Sales of Apple's tablet computer product iPad with the Wi-Fi function will start sales in the Chinese mainland market from September 17, 2010. Starting at 10:00, the Wi-Fi version iPad will be available in Apple's specialty stores and its authorized retailers on the Chinese mainland, including Best Buy's seven stores in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. [...]

Chinese portal website Sina.com has published its first white paper targeting the Chinese microblog market. The white paper reveals that by the end of 2010, there will be over 65 million registered active accounts in the Internet microblog sector in China; by 2011, the number will be over 100 million. Statistics show that Sina's microblog [...]

France-based 4G chipmaker Sequans has opened a new office in Shanghai. Sequans said it established the local presence to better serve its Chinese customers and to more readily respond to the company's rapidly growing business demands in China. Concurrently, Sequans announced the appointment of Alex Shang to the position of China country manager. Shang has [...]

The first official Apple Store in Shanghai will open on July 10, 2010. Adjacent to Shanghai International Financial Center in the Pudong area of city, the new Apple Store, which is Apple's 295th store in the world, is designed as a cylindrical building 44 meters high. The interior design of this store has reportedly been [...]

The once-postponed mobile phone reading service of China Telecom will now reportedly be formally launched in late July 2010.
An insider revealed to the local media that the related departments of China Telecom have started planning and deploying resources for the launch of this new service and the company will set up a mobile reading base [...]

According to information from the Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Suning, starting from June 18, 2010, it will sell two types of Blackberry handsets on its nationwide retail network, marking Blackberry's entry into the Chinese consumer retail market.
Suning said that the company has signed a strategic agreement with Blackberry to become an exclusive home [...]

About 100 companies from China have jointly established a security-focused Green Mobile Phone Alliance in Shanghai.
These companies include Spreadtrum Communications Inc, Lenovo and Hisense, and they have also published a green mobile phone alliance pact. The pact states that members of the alliance will work together to fight against malware and unauthorized software pre-installed in [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the island's smartphone maker HTC has decided to inject additional capital of USD45 million in the Shanghai-based HTC Electronics for capacity expansion.
Meanwhile, HTC will invest USD19.5 million in another mainland subsidiary, HTC Communications, for sales channel expansion. This move is reportedly a preparation for the sales of China [...]

Beijing, China (April 13, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — LehmanBrown International Accountants today kicked off its 2010 Graduate Recruitment Program with a series of Campus Recruitment Talks, held in-conjunction with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), one of the largest professional accounting bodies in the world. The Graduate Recruitment Program is run nationwide with [...]

The joint construction and sharing of Shanghai's telecom infrastructures has played an important role in the city's major projects, including the World Expo site, Hongqiao traffic hub, and Lingang new city, and the three major Chinese telecom operators claim to have realized full joint construction and sharing of mobile base stations for the 2010 Shanghai [...]

Shanghai, China (April 08, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — On April 2, 2010, Huashan Hospital Pudong welcomes the opening of its first international healthcare center. Located in the JinQiao Area in Pudong, the hospital offers the best medical facility and excellent clinical experiences for the Expat community in Shanghai. Our friendly foreign doctors and western background [...]