Chinese telecommunication operator China Unicom has published its semi-annual financial report for the first half of 2010, stating that its operating revenue reached CNY82.11 billion, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%. Of the total operating revenue, CNY41.05 billion was contributed by the mobile businesses, a year-on-year increase of 17.7%; while CNY40.11 billion was from the fixed [...]

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 Ku6 Media Company Ltd., which boasts a new focus on Internet video services after dumping its poor wireless services offerings and its old name of Hurray, today announced its unaudited financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2010. On August 17, 2010, the company announced that it changed its name to Ku6 [...]

Chinese telecommunication equipment maker ZTE Corporation has published its interim results for the first half of 2010 ended June 30. During the first half of 2010, ZTE achieved operating revenue of CNY30.725 billion, a year-on-year increase of 10.89%; its net profit was CNY877 million, a year-on-year increase of 12.02%; and its basic earnings per share [...]

Chinese mobile Internet company KongZhong Corporation today announced its unaudited second quarter 2010 financial results. Total revenues for the quarter increased 9% year-over-year to USD35.3 million and total gross margin was 48% in the second quarter of 2010, an increase of 44% from the previous quarter in 2010. Net income was USD2.6 million, and KongZhong [...]

Shanda Interactive Entertainment has decided the final retail price of CNY999 for its electronic reader product Bambook, and a new reservation system has been launched for the marketing of this new product. Bambook will be officially launched on September 28, 2010, with an updated software version. Prior to this, the product was put into the [...]

Chinese electronics and PC maker Lenovo has published its financial report for the first quarter of 2010 fiscal year ended June 30, stating that it gained net profit of USD55 million. From April to June 2010, Lenovo's worldwide sales of PC increased by 48.1% year-on-year and its comprehensive sales increased by about 20.9%. The group's [...]

China Mobile Limited announced today that its chief executive officer has been replaced. Effective today, Wang Jianzhou has ceased to be the CEO, but he remains executive director and chairman of the telecommunications firm Li Yue, executive director and vice president of the company, has been re-designated as executive director and CEO of China Mobile. [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks, the international telecommunications hardware, software, and services company, has announced that it will deploy an IP Multimedia Subsystem core platform for China Mobile to offer IMS-based multimedia application services to the enterprise customers of this Chinese telecom operator. China Mobile has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to implement its IMS core platform, hiQ [...]

Chinese online game firm Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited announced that it has completed its business swap with Ku6 Media Company Limited. The companies entered into the transaction on June 1, 2010. Ku6 has now acquired 75% of an online audio business from Shanda in exchange for 415,384,615 newly issued ordinary shares of Ku6, and it [...]

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has completed its tests in Tianjin and will start the trial operation of the mobile phone number portability service from October 2010. The mobile phone number portability service allows users of a telecom operator to change their mobile communication service providers and enjoy the services of the new [...]

Responding to complaints from mobile phone consumers in Hong Kong about hidden telecommunications fees and high bills, Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has taken action. OFTA has published measures that have been implemented by individual mobile operators to prevent what it calls "mobile bill shock". These measures include allowing customers to opt-out of [...]

China Wireless, the Hong Kong-listed unit of the Chinese mobile phone maker Yulong Coolpad, has published its semi-annual financial report for the first half of 2010, stating that the company achieved operating revenue of HKD2.102 billion, a year-on-year increase of 193.8%; and it achieved net profit of HKD272 million, a year-on-year increase of 740.4%. China [...]

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 [...]

Taiwan-headquartered fabless semiconductor company MediaTek has announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with the Japanese communication giant NTT DoCoMo, regarding LTE-PF, a mobile terminal platform based on Long Term Evolution. Upon the completion of the LTE-PF licensing agreement, MediaTek plans to integrate this LTE technology with its 2G and 3G technologies to provide [...]

A representative from Unicom Vsens, the terminal subsidiary of China Unicom, has confirmed to the local media that China Unicom will launch the 8G iPhone 3GS handset with a Wi-Fi feature in China on August 9, 2010. The new product will reportedly be sold with a 24-month contract at the price of CNY4,999. The introduction [...]

The Indian government has amended its telecom security rules, stating that India telecom operators can resume their imports of Chinese-made telecommunications equipment, but stricter rules will be applied. According to a statement published by the Department of Telecommunications of India, due to security reasons, all telecom equipment suppliers must share their source code and design [...]

Chinese online media company Sina Corporation today announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, and stated net revenues grew 10% year over year. Sina reported net revenues of USD99.4 million, compared to USD90.3 million for the same period last year. Advertising revenues for the second quarter of 2010 were USD73.1 [...]

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC has brought new smartphone products under a new brand of HTC to the Chinese mainland market, aiming to become a top five smartphone vendor in this marketplace. The company has released four HTC brands, including Tianxi and Tianyi based on China Mobile's TD-SCDMA network, and Wildfire and Desire based on [...]

Microsoft China and the Chinese technology company Hanvon have jointly announced that they will implement an in-depth cooperation in the tablet computer sector and will work together to develop new tablet computers for business use in China. Li Xiang, general manager for the OEM business department of Microsoft China, told local media that Microsoft's strategic [...]