SinoCast China IT Watch articles from December 2005

SinoCast China IT Watch archives from December 2005

Mop.com Takes over Donews.
December 30, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, January 02, SinoCast -- Mop.com, a subsidiary of China Interactive Corp, will tale over Donews, one of the largest IT forums in China through a 100% share transfer, China Interactive confirmed the...

Carriers Are All Systems Go for 3G Era.
December 30, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, January 02, SinoCast -- It's time for China to issue third-generation (3G) telecom licenses, Xi Guohua, vice minister of the Ministry of Information Industry of China said on December 26. At the...

Telstra Makes A Beeline to China.
December 30, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, January 02, SinoCast -- Australian telecoms titan Telstra considers to further build up its presence in the China's mainland, possibly using its newly-merged business unit in Hong Kong as a...

China Telecom's 2005.
December 30, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, January 02, SinoCast -- As the country's biggest fix-line telecom carrier, China Telecom (HKSE: 0728, NYSE: CHA) has its business continued to grow steadily during the first 3 quarters of 2005. ...

Real-name Mobile Phone Subscription Will Start Next Year.
December 30, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, January 02, SinoCast -- Next year new mobile phone subscribers in China will have to register their real names before signing up mobile phone service. The real-name subscription of mobile phone...

SVA-E Raises CNY1bn to Flat-panel Business.
December 30, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, January 02, SinoCast -- Shanghai-based SVA Electron Co., Ltd. (SVA-E, 600602.SH), China's largest cathode- ray-tube (CRT) display provider and the picture tube making arm of SVA (Group) Co. (SVA,...

CDC to Purchase Outside China.
December 29, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 30, SinoCast -- CDC Corporation (CHINA), leading global provider of Enterprise Software Solutions from China, and CRM provider Onyx Software (ONXS) have exchanged words last week about...

EBay China Finally Provides Free Service.
December 29, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 30, SinoCast -- As one of the leading online stores in China, eBay China made a statement on December 25 saying it would provide free services for cyber shop owners to compete head-to-head...

Sohu Launches WAP Portal.
December 29, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 30, SinoCast -- Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com (Nasdaq: SOHU) lately launched a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) portal at wap.sohu.com to enhance its business presence in that...

China Telecom to Get 3G License.
December 29, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 30, SinoCast -- CHINA Telecom, the country's largest fixed-line phone carrier, will get a license from the Ministry of Information Industry of China to build a nationwide third-generation...

China to Impose Mobile Phone Real-identity System.
December 29, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 30, SinoCast -- Experts from China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) revealed that China is likely to establish a real name system for mobile phone users in December. According...

SSE Adopts Solution of Teradata.
December 29, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 30, SinoCast -- Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NCR) and the leader in enterprise data warehousing solutions, announced that the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has selected...

Datang Gets Loans from CDB.
December 28, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 29, SinoCast -- The owner of China- patented 3G technology TD-SCDMA can now stop worrying about capital shortages as it has received the biggest-ever loan from the country's strategic...

China Puts Full Weight Behind 3G Players.
December 28, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 29, SinoCast -- The Ministry of Information Industry of China (MII) has released a circular stating that after careful examination it has decided to offer financial support to six mobile...

Inmarsat Eyes Rural Areas in China.
December 28, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 29, SinoCast -- Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) of Inmarsat, the pioneer of global mobile satellite communications in the world, has been launched in China to allow citizens living in...

Siemens Devotes more to IPTV in China.
December 28, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 29, SinoCast -- The global front-running telecommunications product and solution provider Germany-based Siemens will launch a massive campaign to tap into the business of digital...

Telstra Eyes Greater China.
December 28, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 29, SinoCast -- The Australian telecom carrier Telstra is seeking ways and means to expand its regional profile in China, hoping that its involvement with the country's Olympic games...

TCL Communication to Issue New Shares.
December 28, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) HONG KONG, December 29, SinoCast -- TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd. (TCL Communication, 2618.HK), the mobile phone biz listing body of the Chinese electronics-making conglomerate TCL Corp.,...

Beijing Netcom Reaches Deals with 108 Olympic Hotels.
December 27, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 28, SinoCast -- Beijing Netcom, which is the branch of China Netcom in Beijing and has taken 80% of the residential broadband market in the city, says it has signed broadband installation...

Time is Mature for 3G.
December 27, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 28, SinoCast -- It's time for China to issue third-generation (3G) telecom licenses, Xi Guohua, vice minister of the Ministry of Information Industry of China said on December 26. At...

Tencent Joins Band Wagon of Search Engine.
December 27, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, December 28, SinoCast -- Tencent, the biggest instant messaging software vendor in China, has launched an independent domain name search website that adopts Google's most advanced search engine...

China Founds Open Source Community.
December 27, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 28, SinoCast -- The Open Source Community of China has been formally established by China OSS Promotion Union (COPU), China Linux Industry Strategic Alliance and CSIP (Center of Software...

Dell Boosts Printer Business in China.
December 27, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 28, SinoCast -- Dell Inc. (Dell), the global PC producing magnate, said it had its software and peripherals sales increased 25% year-on-year in China, and more importantly, its color-ink...

Lenovo Becomes Sole Owner Of Lenovo Mobile.
December 27, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) XIAMEN, December 28, SinoCast -- Lenovo, the biggest PC and mobile phone maker in China, signed on December 26 the Share Transfer Agreement with Xoceco, a traditional mobile phone giant in Xiamen, Fujian...

ZTE Joins Hands with Hutchison 3G.
December 22, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, December 23, SinoCast -- ZTE Corp. (SZA: 000063; HK: 0763), the second largest telecom equipment maker in China, announced on December 18 that it had signed a 3G mobile phone supply agreement with...

Telecom and Media Giants Work on IPTV.
December 22, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 23, SinoCast -- Shanghai Telecom, the branch of China Telecom in Shanghai, and Shanghai Media Group will be cooperating with Siemens (SI) to offer Internet protocol television (IPTV)...

Shanghai Extends Use of RFID Tech.
December 22, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 23, SinoCast -- Two authorities of Shanghai municipal government just announced that they are going to further popularize the intellectualized management on the city's taxi service...

China Issued First Trade Risk Report.
December 22, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 23, SinoCast -- Days ago China published its first international trade risk report in Beijing, analyzing the trade risk grades of the country's 60 major trading nations. According to...

IGRS Weighs Heavier.
December 22, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 23, SinoCast -- The IGRS WG (Information Grouping and Resources Sharing Work Group), a Chinese homegrown digital industrial standards and alliance, announced the other day the...

Eight Titans to Push IGRS.
December 22, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 23, SinoCast -- Eight traditional Chinese home appliance and IT companies such as Lenovo, TCL, Great Wall, Skyworth, Hisense, and Konka held a meeting on December 21 in Beijing to push for...

PacificNet Purchases Clickcom.
December 21, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, December 22, SinoCast -- PacificNet Inc., a provider of value-added telecom services (VAS) in China, announced lately that it had reached an agreement to acquire a controlling stakes in Guangzhou...

Nortel Wins Big Orders in China.
December 21, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 22, SinoCast -- China's backbone West- East Gas Pipeline Project has selected an IP-based converged networking solution from Nortel (NT) to power high quality voice and multimedia...

Dual-mode Phones Get on the Center Stage.
December 21, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 22, SinoCast -- China Unicom, the second largest mobile phone carrier in China, is on a mission to provide the best of both worlds. In the mobile industry, there are two major mobile...

Mobile Business Drove XING's Revenue.
December 21, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) GUANGZHOU, December 22, SinoCast -- QiaoXing Universal Telephone, Inc. (Nasdaq: XING), one of China's largest manufacturers and distributors of telecom equipments, recently presented its forecast of the...

Lenovo Shakes up Management Team.
December 21, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 22, SinoCast -- Lenovo Group, the world third PC brand based in China, 0announced on December 19 that its Board of Directors had appointed William J. Amelio as President and Chief...

Sony Recalls Digital Cameras.
December 21, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 22, SinoCast -- Sony Corp. just suspended sales of its digital cameras in China and started a recall process, in response to Zhejiang Province's injunction to stop sales of its digital...

Huawei Reaches Deal with Telecom Malaysia.
December 20, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, December 21, SinoCast -- Huawei Technologies, the bellwether of Chinese telecom equipment makers, reaches a deal in Malaysia with Malaysia's Telekom Research and Development Sdn Bhd to promote...

Chinese Cardholders to Punch in Japan.
December 20, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 21, SinoCast -- China UnionPay (CUP), the only national bankcard payment network in China, reached an ATM gateway deal with JCB International, one of the international branches of JCB, the...

Japanese Big Names Retreat from China Mobile Market.
December 20, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 21, SinoCast -- When Toshiba Corp., Japan's second-biggest chip maker, withdrew from China's mobile phone market and sold its stake in a related venture in April, it is like a horn ahead...

Local TV Tycoons Engage Handset TV.
December 20, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 21, SinoCast -- Shanghai Oriental Pearl Cable Networks Co., Ltd. (Oriental Pearl, 600832.SH), an influential regional TV network under Shanghai Media Group, said recently that it plans to...

Intel Opens New Chip Plant in Chengdu.
December 20, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) CHENGDU, December 21, SinoCast -- Intel, the world's number one chipmaker, opened its second chip plant on November 12 in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, western China, in a move to cement its...

Shenzhen: Car Electronics Industry Rising.
December 20, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 21, SinoCast -- According to the latest report released by Shenzhen Information Industry Association, the automobile electronics industry of Shenzhen, a coastal city in Guangdong Province,...

New Anti-spam Task Force Founded in China.
December 19, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 20, SinoCast -- The Internet Society of China (ISC) has pushed its earlier anti-spam efforts with the establishment of a new anti-spam team called the Anti-Spam Committee of Internet...

China Became a Red-hot VC Market.
December 19, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 20, SinoCast -- Venture capital (VC) has a great development potential in China. It has developed in China for just over 10 years but it is a fast-growing industry. According to...

BEA to Increase Investment in China.
December 19, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 20, SinoCast -- US software big name BEA plans to conduct acquisitions in China to build up a stronger presence in the Chinese market, especially within the fast- growing telecommunications...

TD-SCDMA Almost Ready to Go.
December 19, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 20, SinoCast -- TD-SCDMA, the third- generation (3G) mobile telecom standard developed in China, will come into a significant stage towards commercial operation in early 2006, when all lab...

OMRON Sets up New Branch in Guangzhou.
December 19, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) GUANGZHOU, December 20, SinoCast -- OMRON (OMRY), a global leader in the field of automation, has officially set up a new electronic components production and sales base in Guangzhou, the capital city of...

TechFaith Starts Smart Phones Subsidiary.
December 19, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 20, SinoCast -- China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited (CNTF), a established mobile phone software and solution provider in Beijing, announced that it had set up a new...

Dangdang Plans Listing 2007.
December 16, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, December 19, SinoCast -- Dangdang.com, the largest online book store in China, has begun to expand toward offline retailing services and plans to get listed overseas in 2007. Yu Yu, president...

China to See USD 250 Billion of Export of E&I Products.
December 16, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 19, SinoCast -- The Ministry of Information Industry of China, the telecom watchdog in China, forecasts that China's exports of electronic information products this year will exceed USD...

Siemens to Enlist More Staff in China.
December 16, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 19, SinoCast -- Germany-based big name Siemens is expected to add 3,000 new employees in its annual recruitment in China in the fiscal year 2006, according to Fanchen Meng, senior vice...

UTStarcom and China Putian Form Partnership in 3G Business.
December 16, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 19, SinoCast -- Under an earlier agreement, UTStarcom Inc. and China Putian Corp., two influential telecom equipment makers, now become business partners in the next-generation (3G)...

What is Driving Chinese IPTV Industry?
December 16, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 19, SinoCast -- Beijing Gehua Cable TV Networks Co., Ltd. (Gehua Cable, 600037.SH) and Shanghai Media Group (SMG), China's two influential regional TV networks, just reached a deal on...

NEC Falls Back in China.
December 16, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 19, SinoCast -- Front-running Japanese cell phone makers which are dominant in their own country are scaling back their Chinese operations in face of the fierce competition. The move...

ZTE Reaches A Deal with France Telecom.
December 15, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, December 16, SinoCast -- China's second largest telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp has signed a cooperation deal with France Telecom, as part of its long-term effort to expand into the European...

Freeborders Pours More Money on RD.
December 15, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, December 16, SinoCast -- Freeborders, the bellwether of Chinese software outsourcing companies in China, announced in Shenzhen on December 11 during the Summit of 2005 China International Software...

EVD Industry Faces Great Changes.
December 15, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 16, SinoCast -- Beijing E-World Technology Co., Ltd., a technology company known as the developer of Chinese next-generation DVD standard EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc), recently surprised...

Japanese Digital Camera Tycoons Start Revival in China.
December 15, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 16, SinoCast -- As the conventional camera industry keep shrinking, some Japanese camera big names, like Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (Fujifilm), Olympus Corp. (Olympus) and Konica...

Sony Ericsson Purchased Suohong Electronics.
December 15, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJIGN, December 16, SinoCast -- Cell phone giant Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications on December 14 said that it had got approval from the Chinese telecom regulators to take over Beijing-based Suohong...

Philips Aims Higher Sales in China.
December 15, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 16, SinoCast -- Netherlands-based electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics, hopes to make sales of CNY 10 billion in China by 2007. Rudy Provoost, vice president and CEO of Philips...

China Sees New Round of Venture Capital Spree.
December 14, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 15, SinoCast -- Venture capital firms have quickened their paces of investment in China's fast-growing sectors, including the Internet, semiconductors and new applications for mobile...

Hurray! Takes Stakes in Huayi Brothers Music.
December 14, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 15, SinoCast -- Hurray! (HRAY), a front- running wireless value-added service provider in China, announced the signing of definitive agreements to make a strategic investment in Huayi...

More Baidu Shares From Lock-up Restrictions.
December 14, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 15, SinoCast -- Baidu.com (BIDU), the biggest search engine service provider in China, announced that Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. and Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, co-lead underwriters...

The9 Licensed Right of New Game from Webzen.
December 14, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJIGN, December 15, SinoCast -- Webzen (WZEN), a leading cyber game vendor from South Korea, announced that it has signed an export contract for its much-anticipated MMORPG "Soul of the Ultimate Nation"...

PCCW's IPTV User Broke Half Million.
December 14, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) HONG KONG, December 15, SinoCast -- PCCW Limited (PCCW, SEHK: 0008, NYSE ADR: PCW), the premier telecom services provider in Hong Kong, lately announced that the user number of its local broadband IPTV...

Godson-3 Chip likely to be Created in Chongqing.
December 14, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) CHONGQING, December 15, SinoCast -- After a short talk with the local government, the producer and marketer for Chinese homegrown microprocessor series just decided to establish a research and development...

YeePay Unveils Telephone Payment Service.
December 13, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 14, SinoCast -- YeePay, a leading e- payment service provider in China, released its telephone payment service on December 12 along with three major banks in China, including Industrial...

China Telecom Adopts Alcatel IP Solution in Anhui.
December 13, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) HEFEI, December 14, SinoCast -- Alcatel (ALA), one of the world leading telecom equipment makers, says that Anhui Telecom, a provincial branch of China Telecom, the biggest fixed line phone carrier in China,...

Chinese E-magazines Grow Fast.
December 13, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 14, SinoCast -- When traditional journals and newspapers keep blaming at e-magazines for they "borrow" the contents from conventional media easily and grab away huge amount of advertisers,...

Manufacturers to Provide Internet Bars Economical PC Models.
December 13, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 14, SinoCast -- Under the recent arrangement by China's Ministry of Culture (MoC), the CPU tycoon Intel Corp. and five Chinese personal computer (PC) makers, including Lenovo, Tsinghua...

China's Mobile Phone Market Cries for Low-end Products.
December 13, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 14, SinoCast -- China's mobile phone market witnessed skyrocketing demand for low-end products in the third quarter of 2005, with mobile phones with multimedia functions becoming the...

Shanda: EZ Pod Sells Like Hot Cakes.
December 13, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 14, SinoCast -- Shanda (SNDA), the bellwether of China's cyber game vendors, says that more than 150,000 EZ Pods have been pre-ordered from Shanda's own distribution channel. The EZ...

SVB Sets up Branch in Shanghai.
December 12, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 13, SinoCast -- SVB Financial Group (SIVBE), the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, officially set up its third international subsidiary on December 11 in Shanghai, the financial...

A8 Won USD20mn Venture Capital.
December 12, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 13, SinoCast -- A8 Limited, a Chinese cyber music company, announced that it just acquired USD20 million funds from five international investors, to enhance its online music operations and...

Qiao Xing Engages VoIP Service.
December 12, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) GUANGZHOU, December 13, SinoCast -- Qiao Xing Universal Telephone Inc. (Nasdaq: XING), one of China's largest telecom products makers, announced that it recently obtained the exclusive agency rights for 12...

China Becomes the Biggest IT Products Maker.
December 12, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 13, SinoCast -- After almost ten yeaes' of explosive growth in its electronics sector, China has overtaken the United States as the largest supplier of information technology products in...

Carriers and Makers Recycles Used Phones.
December 12, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 13, SinoCast -- A plan to recycle used mobile phones and parts has been launched in China, which is jointly sponsored by China Mobile, the biggest mobile telecom carrier in China, and...

IDT Announced 90 Nanometer-based Network Search Engine.
December 12, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 13, SinoCast -- IDT (IDTI), a world leading multinational telecommunications, entertainment and technology company, announced the industry's first network search engine manufactured on...

Sina.com Comes up with Own Local Search Service.
December 9, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) CHONGQING, December 12, SinoCast -- Sina.com, one of China's established big three Internet portals, launched on December 8 its iAsk local search engine in Chongqing, becoming the third search engine in...

Shanda Took over Gametea.
December 9, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, December 12, SinoCast -- Shanda (SNDA), NASDAQ- listed bellwether of China's cyber game industry, completed on December 8 the cash purchase of 100 percent equity interest in Gametea, a leading...

Chinese Companies Plans Spending Spree.
December 9, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 12, SinoCast -- China mainland's companies are expected to increase their spending on information technology (IT) to improve their research and development (R&D) capabilities, according to...

China Telecom Interfaces with Reliance Infocomm Seamlessly.
December 9, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 12, SinoCast -- China Telecom, the frontrunning fixed line telephone carrier in China, is on the way to reach a connectivity deal with India's largest CDMA mobile services provider...

Fuji Film to Form Its Largest Production Base in Suzhou.
December 9, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SUZHOU, December 12, SinoCast -- Upon celebrating the 10th anniversary of the establishment of its digital camera plant in Suzhou, an eastern Chinese city, Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (Fujifilm, TSE:...

MII Nods to AVS.
December 9, 2005... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, December 12, SinoCast -- The Ministry of Information Industry (MII), China's telecom watchdog, has given the green light to an audio-video coding standard (AVS) developed in China. It has been...