SinoCast China IT Watch articles from February 2006

SinoCast China IT Watch archives from February 2006

Cyber games Plays A Key Role.
February 28, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, March 01, SinoCast -- China's cyber game industry continued to show its strength in 2005 and Chinese cyber game vendors and developers had caught up with their original hits. Cyber games are...

51job.com Posts Q4 Report.
February 28, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, March 01, SinoCast -- 51job.com, a leading human resource solutions provider in China, launched this week its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter of 2005 and for the year ended...

Linktone Failed to Meet Sales Target in Q4.
February 28, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, March 01, SinoCast -- Linktone, the bellwether of China's value-added telecom service provider, unveiled its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter of 2005. Linktone's net income...

SMM Seeks Partners to Have More Digital Cinemas.
February 28, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, March 01, SinoCast -- "The 21 digital cinemas are all invested by Stellar Mega Media (SMM). And we are likely to set up more by joining hands with China Film Group Corporation or foreign strategic...

Newcomer Digs up the Hatchet.
February 28, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, March 01, SinoCast -- Who can and who dare to challenge the dominance of Focus Media after it took over overwhelmingly Target Media, once its biggest rival in China's out-of-home audiovisual media...

Hebei Branch of China Netcom Disposed Equipment Providers.
February 28, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, March 01, SinoCast -- The Hebei branch of China Netcom, a leading fixed telecom carrier, started to optimize its broadband network in the northeastern China's Hebei province from the fourth quarter...

Etang.com Said to Sell Wireless Business to Syworld.com.
February 27, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 28, SinoCast -- Some reports said that Qihoo.com, a budding website that offers telecom value-added services in China, is likely to acquire Eetang.com. "Qihoo.com is not acquiring...

AsiaInfo Wins Metadata Contracts from China Mobile.
February 27, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) CHANGCHUN, February 28, SinoCast -- AsiaInfo, is a leading provider of high-quality software, customer solutions, and IT services to some of China's largest enterprises as swell as many small and medium...

Shenzhen: A City Chasing Originality.
February 27, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 28, SinoCast -- During the past two decades, Shenzhen, a coastal city in Southeast China's Guangdong province, has been focused on labor-intensive industries. Now the city is moving...

Lang Chao Int'l Acquires Stakes in Two Affiliated Firms.
February 27, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANDONG, February 28, SinoCast -- Lang Chao International Limited (8141. SEHK) announced on February 20 that the listed company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Lang Chao Electronics (HK) Ltd., acquired...

Former AsiaInfo Lenovo COO Joins in Unisys.
February 27, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 28, SinoCast -- Unisys, one of the largest IT information technology service and solving project providers, started to realize its sales target for 2006 by luring employees from other...

NME to Control Beijing E-World.
February 27, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 28, SinoCast -- Beijing E-World Technology Co., Ltd., the EVD patent owner, approved of a controlling stake held by New Media Enterprises (NME) of UK at its shareholders' meeting on...

Search Heavyweights Get in Cutthroat Fight in China.
February 24, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 27, SinoCast -- As Yahoo reshapes its business structure and Google keeps its legs in China, the country has already become a huge arena where global search engine heavyweights are waging...

Ctrip.com Posts Latest Report.
February 24, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 27, SinoCast -- Ctrip.com, a leading Chinese traveling Internet portal, released its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and the whole year of 2005 ended December 31, 2005....

NetEase.com Turns in Latest Report.
February 24, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 27, SinoCast -- NetEase.com, one of the big three traditional Chinese Internet portals, posted the unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31,...

Nokia to Launch 3G Mobile Phones of 2G Version.
February 24, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 27, SinoCast -- Nokia (China) Investment Co., Ltd.'s president He Qingyuan, Nokia Greater China customer service and marketing senior vice president Zhao Kelin, and Nokia Greater China...

Huawei, HP Jointly Tap into Telecom Market.
February 24, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 27, SinoCast -- Huawei Technologies Ltd. announced on February 24 that it signed a global cooperation partner agreement with HP on helping the global telecom operators manage their...

Lenovo PCs Debut in the U.S.
February 24, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 27, SinoCast -- Lenovo, the world's third-largest PC maker, announced on February 22 that it had launched mid-end PCs targeted at small US businesses and consumers, taking the Lenovo brand...

QiMing Venture Hunts for Chinese Internet Start-ups.
February 23, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHI, February 24, SinoCast -- Seeing the huge potential of China's Internet, an Internet venture capital firm called QiMing Venture Partner came to light on February 15 in Shanghai. The budding...

Sina.com Unveils Fourth Quarter Report.
February 23, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 24, SinoCast -- Sina.com, one of the big three Chinese Internet portals, posted its fourth quarter report and the result for 2005 ended December 31, 2005 showing a slight revenue increase...

The9 Releases Its Q4 Result.
February 23, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 24, SinoCast -- The9, one of the front running cyber game vendors in China, released this week its results for the fourth quarter of 2005. Its net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2005...

Six Telecom Carriers to Co-build TD-SCDMA Network.
February 23, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 24, SinoCast -- A proposal on the issuance of 3G licenses, especially the TD-SCDMA license, drafted by several experts was sent to the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) recently. ...

Holley: A 3G Newcomer is Having Its Best Year.
February 23, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) HANGZHOU, February 24, SinoCast -- With five years' struggling and waiting, Holley Communications, a wireless communication technology application and integrated solutions provider in China, is having its...

Digital Music Thrives Online.
February 23, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 24, SinoCast -- "No, not this posture," says Yang Jiahong, chief executive officer of Rock Mobile, a budding value-added telecom service and digital music provider in China, when he was...

Chinese 3G Mobile Phones Landing Europe.
February 22, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) XIAMEN, February 23, SinoCast -- Xiamen-based Amoi, which is one of the established home appliance makers in China, reached a purchase deal with Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom. The latter will...

China Zhenhua and Dopod Acquire Mobile Phone Licenses.
February 22, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 23, SinoCast -- China Zhenhua (Group) Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (000733. SZSE) and Dopod Communication Corp. also acquired the mobile phone licenses. China Zhenhua (Group)...

Higher Costs in Europe Drags Down TCL Sales.
February 22, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 23, SinoCast -- This week, TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited (TCL Multimedia), a TCL company, released pre-loss report for the fourth quarter of 2005, showing a business...

ASUS to Roll out More Phones in the Mainland.
February 22, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 23, SinoCast -- ASUS, a Taiwan-based PC and main board maker, now is speeding up its expanding paces to the mobile phone market for China's mainland. On February 19, ASUS decided to...

China's Leading Retailer Launches New Strategy.
February 22, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 23, SinoCast -- Gome Appliance, the bellwether in the Chinese home appliance retailing industry, launched a new sales strategy tailored to big clients yesterday. Gome Appliance will...

116.com.cn Branks on VOD.
February 21, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 22, SinoCast -- 116.com.cn, a leading telecom value-added service provider in China, is likely to transfer all of its businesses to its biggest shareholder China Netcom, the second largest...

Sales of China Finance Online Decline 43%.
February 21, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 22, SinoCast -- China's leading online financial service provider China Finance Online (NASDAQ: JRJC) unveiled on February 13 its fourth quarter report and the report for 2005, with net...

Ingram Micro Buys 60% Stakes in Digital China.
February 21, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 22, SinoCast -- Digital China, the largest IT products distributor in China, has already confirmed the buyer of its headquarter of information product. Ingram Micro, the third largest...

Great Wall to Establish Number One Display Brand.
February 21, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 22, SinoCast -- Great Wall, a traditional PC maker in China, held its 2006 Wide Screen Display Releasing Conference on February 17, during which it announced that it would put the...

Hedy Comes As A Phone Maker.
February 21, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) GUANGZHOU, February 22, SinoCast -- Chinese mobile phone brands can be divided into three groups: professional mobile phone makers such as Bird, China Kejian, and Soutec; home- appliance mobile phone makers...

AOC to Enter China's LCD TV Market.
February 21, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 22, SinoCast -- Another IT giant will launch liquid crystal display TVs after Dell and HP. As the world's largest computer monitor manufacturer, AOC is conducting close negotiation...

Will Mobile Blog be A Lifesaver?
February 20, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) HANGZHOU, February 21, SinoCast -- One side, China Mobile, the biggest mobile telecom carrier in China, reins in the overheating rough-and-tumble traditional Internet service market, in the other side, it...

More Mobile Phone License Bearers Come to Light.
February 20, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 21, SinoCast -- This three companies got their mobile phone silences from Chinese telecom regulators, they were Shanghai DBTEL, Shanghai Daye and Beijing Hi-Tech Wealth. It is...

Pacific City Acquires NewHuaSun.
February 20, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) GUANGZHOU, February 21, SinoCast -- The rumor that the Pacific City International Holdings Ltd. plans to acquire Guangdong NewHuaSun Computer Co., Ltd., the biggest distributor for Samsung monitors in the...

Hunan TV to Launch Live TV Shopping Program.
February 20, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) HUNAN, February 21, SinoCast -- The Hunan TV station launches a shopping program this year to establish the country's first national live TV shopping company, with the investment in the first phase to be...

Shenzhen Companies to Set up MP4 Standard.
February 20, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 21, SinoCast -- China's MP4 industry standard will be licked into shape by June 2006, if everything goes smoothly. On October 27, the PMP (portal media player) Committee was...

Changhong to be Agent of Meling.
February 20, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) CHENGDU, February 21, SinoCast -- Chinese traditional home appliance maker Hefei-based Meiling Group announced on February 19 that it had signed an agreement with China's home appliance bellwether...

Dating Websites Mushrooming in China.
February 17, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 20, SinoCast -- As a nascent Internet- based business, China's online dating market is expected to have sales of CNY 1 billion by the end of 2008, with as much as 110 million subscribers....

Huge Investments Will Pour on 3G.
February 17, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 20, SinoCast -- Chinese big telecom carriers are expected to invest CNY 36.6 billion or USD 4.54 billion on 3G telecom mobile networks, according to industry analysts. China is...

Semiconductor Giant Builds Plants in Shenzhen.
February 17, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 20, SinoCast -- STMicroelectronics (ST), a world leading semiconductor maker, is about to set up a new CMOS testing, marking and packing (TMP) plant in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province,...

China Mobile Launches Mobile Phone Map Service in Low Profile.
February 17, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 20, SinoCast -- China Mobile, a leading mobile telecom carrier, appeared in a low profile in the promotion of its mobile phone map services, which is an an important part of the industry...

Hitachi Sets Up New Center in Shenzhen.
February 17, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 20, SinoCast -- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a world front runner in hard disk storage technology, founded a new mega-manufacturing centre in China on February 16, a move that is...

Olympus Turns to Direct Selling in China.
February 17, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 20, SinoCast -- Japan-based Olympus announced with fanfare this week its distribution strategy for 2006 in China. This year, Olympus will put the spotlight on three factors by...

Huawei to Sell 3G Cell Phone in Europe.
February 16, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 17, SinoCast -- Huawei Technologies, the biggest telecom equipment maker in China, reached a five-year deal with Vodafone Group PLC. In terms of the deal, Huawei will provide 3G cell...

ZTE Got Big Orders from China Telecom.
February 16, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 17, SinoCast -- Shenzhen-based ZTE, the second largest telecom equipment maker, announced on February 16 that that it had clinched an order with China Telecom, the biggest fixed line phone...

Apple comes with High-Price PC.
February 16, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 17, SinoCast -- Apple Computer, a global leading PC maker, released its first complete product line installed with Intel processors to the Chinese users on February 14, 2006. It...

Dbtel Saw Late Mobile Phone License.
February 16, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, February 17, SinoCast -- Shortly after Dbtel, a mobile phone maker in Taiwan, quit the mobile phone market for China's mainland lately, it got the mobile phone license from telecom regulators,...

Banking Regulator Reforms Mobile Phone Bank.
February 16, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 17, SinoCast -- The China Banking Regulatory Commission issued on February 6 two regulations in a bid to regulate the budding and sizzling electric bank industry, they were Electric Bank...

Skyworth Mobile Phone Starts off on the Right Food.
February 16, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 17, SinoCast -- Skyworth, a traditional television maker in China, announced that its first month mobile phone sales hit 100,000 sets since early January this year. In terms of sales,...

Allyes to Take Itself Public Late This Year.
February 15, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJIGN, February 16, SinoCast -- llyes, the leading Chinese online marketing services and technology company, is brewing the initial public offering in the second half of this year in the hope of raising...

FibrLink Halts Listing Plan.
February 15, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 16, SinoCast -- Beijing-based FibrLink Communications, the remorseless advocator and backer of power line communications (PLC) in China, has finally given up its plan of listing on the...

TCL Communication Integrates R&D in France, Shanghai & Shenzhen.
February 15, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 16, SinoCast -- TCL Communication Equipment (Huizhou) Co., Ltd. integrated its R&D centers based in France, Shanghai, and Shenzhen into a JATX communication company. The new company...

Sony Televisions Stopped Selling in Beijing.
February 15, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 16, SinoCast -- In the CRT era, Sony was the king, but the multinational electronics and television giant has lagged behind in the transition from CRT to flat-panel televisions. Last...

A Budding Industry Cries for More Talents.
February 15, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 16, SinoCast -- A8.com, the top-ranking online music company and wireless value added service provider in China, lately got a huge mount of investment from five international venture...

Dbtel Dismisses Branches Countrywide.
February 15, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, February 16, SinoCast -- Another Chinese mobile phone maker faced the dangerous situation of falling following the heels of Kejian, Panda and Soutec. Shanghai Dbtel declared on February 7 that it...

Chinese Podcasters Find Themselves Short of Cash.
February 14, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 15, SinoCast -- As in countries around the globe, podcasting is being widely accepted by Chinese young Internet-mania generation. Though most amateur podcasters and big podcasting...

Huawei Finalizes Deal With A Polish Carrier.
February 14, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 15, SinoCast -- Huawei Technologies, the biggest telecom equipment maker in China, reached a deal of EUR 150 million with a telecom carrier in Poland, according to some sources. ...

China Telecom to Launch Nationwide Campaign.
February 14, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 15, SinoCast -- "It is the most important thing for us to reach a lower customer turnover rate this year," said the an executive from Shanghai Telecom, the branch of China Telecom in...

Shanghai Posts & Telecom Restructures Assets.
February 14, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, February 15, SinoCast -- Shanghai Posts & Telecommunications Equipment Co., Ltd. (600680. SHSE) announced on February 9 that Tianjin Zhongtian Telecommunications Co., Ltd., a subsidiary controlled...

3M Builds up Presence in Guangzhou.
February 14, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) GUANGZHOU, February 15, SinoCast -- US-based 3M, one of the Fortune 500 companies, on February 13 announced that it had set up the USD 30-million material technology company in Guangzhou Development...

China Ships First Batch of Lead-free Phones to UK.
February 14, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHZNZHEN, February 15, SinoCast -- ZTE Corporation, the second largest telecom equipment maker in China, lately exported its first batch of lead-free handsets to U.K., according to spokesperson for the...

Alibaba Made Two Structural Adjustments in Half One Year.
February 13, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) HONGKONG, February 14, SinoCast -- Alibaba, a global leading e-commerce company, made two interior structural adjustments in the past half a year and it has almost finished the adjustments, said Jack Ma,...

A Voice Google? Good Idea.
February 13, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) GUANGZHOU, February 14, SinoCast -- For a long time, Chinese people have been merely using 114, a service number of China Telecom, for checking telephone numbers. Now the telecom carrier has come up with a...

Personnel Reshuffle Occurs in Guangdong.
February 13, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) GUANGDONG, February 14, SinoCast -- Many managers of the Guangdong branch of China Mobile left for the Guangdong branch of China Unicom, revealed sources. The personnel change was somewhat related to Li...

MII Bans WCDMA Networks.
February 13, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 14, SinoCast -- The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) this week put a lid on construction of WCDMA trial networks and asked all the interrelated telecom carriers to build up TD-SCDMA...

Smuggled High-end ThinkPad Laptops Rampant.
February 13, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 14, SinoCast -- In the PC market for China, product prices of some multinationals have been higher, leaving a room for smuggled goods. The story has been the same for the high-end IBM...

Antaeus Sets up A Digital Cinema Subsidiary.
February 13, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 14, SinoCast -- On February 12, Beijing- based Antaeus Group founded officially Time Antaeus Investment Group with total investment of CNY 160 million in Beijing, the capital city of...

Sina to Reshuffle Management.
February 10, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 13, SinoCast -- Wang Yan, CEO and president of Sina, a leading Internet portal in China, will leave the company recently, who will be succeeded by Sina's CFO Charles Chao, revealed a...

Nokia Continues to Show Its Strength in China.
February 10, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 13, SinoCast -- Finland-based mobile phone giant Nokia announced on February 8 that it made great achievements in China in 2005 with total sales of EUR 3.4 billion. For 2005 alone,...

UTStarcom Posts Q4 Report.
February 10, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 13, SinoCast -- UTStarcom, a leading global provider of wireless and wireline access and IP switching solutions, posted this week its preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter...

Chinese Consumers Want It Bigger.
February 10, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 13, SinoCast -- Is a 52-inch LCD TV big? Yes, but it is not big enough for Chinese. As prices of flat-panel TV felling drastically, large- screen LCD and PDP televisions have been...

Suzhou: A City Lags behind in IC Design.
February 10, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SUZHOU, February 13, SinoCast -- Suzhou, one of the IC (integrated circuit) bases in China, has a full-fledged IC industry chain, covering chip design, production, packaging, and testing, however, the chip...

Convenience Store Sells Consumer Electronics.
February 10, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, February 13, SinoCast -- Shanghai Kedi Convenience Store Co., Ltd. recently launched Hello Kitty MP3, the first digital product, before the Saint Valentine's Day. The Shanghai Kedi Convenience...

21CN to Build Broadband Entertainment Portal.
February 9, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) GUANGDONG, February 10, SinoCast -- To find strategic investors for its business shift as broadband Internet portal will be the major mission for 21CN.com this year. It was rumored on February 5 that...

CEO Resign Puts Cat among Pigeons.
February 9, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 10, SinoCast -- After going through continued sales decline and series of interpersonal dynamics, AsiaInfo Lenovo, the joint venture founded by Lenovo and AsiaInfo, is losing its dynamics...

China Exports more Phones.
February 9, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 10, SinoCast -- As the biggest mobile phone maker and exporter, last year China's mobile phone exports increased 56 percent to top 200 million sets according to latest figures released by...

Kingsoft Sets up New Branch with 335e.com.
February 9, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) DALIAN, February 10, SinoCast -- Unlike other Chinese NASDAQ-listed high-tech companies, traditional software vendor Kingsoft has never raised money or joined hands with strategic investors, but it did in...

Chinese Market Contributed Lots to Soaring Mobile Phone Sales.
February 9, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) BEIJING, February 10, SinoCast -- The China market contributed a lot to the soaring profits of the mobile phone giants last year. Several global leading mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia, Motorola,...

Everything is for Capacity Enlargement.
February 9, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHANGHAI, February 10, SinoCast -- Though it is suffering consecutive huge losses during the past five fiscal quarters, Shanghai-based SMIC, a leading semiconductor maker in China's mainland, is still...

Opportunity Turns Rivals into Partners.
February 8, 2006... (From SinoCast China IT Watch) SHENZHEN, February 09, SinoCast -- Seeing off the Chinese traditional Spring Festival, Huawei Technologies, the bellwether of China's telecom equipment industry, announced that it had signed a cooperative...