MIIT Establishes 3G Inter-Ministerial Coordination Group (Jul 4)
Li Yizhong, minister of the new Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China, says the ministry has established a 3G inter-ministerial coordination group to promote the commercial test and ensure the success of TD-SCDMA. Li says that the ministry should actively promote the commercial test of TD-SCDMA, further reform the telecommunication system, and carry out [...]


Chinese Gaming Firm Launches Publishing Division (Jul 4)
Chinese online game company Shanda (SNDA) says it has started a new business unit called Shanda Literature Limited to focus on publishing original reader-generated literary works. Xiaoqiang Hou, CEO of Shanda Literature, said, "Shanda Literature will bring together the most talented writers in Chinese online literature. An important driver of new growth is the potential to [...]


Dell’s Growing Retail Sales Channel: So What? (Jul 4)
China Tech News reports: According to Min Yida, president of Dell Greater China, Dell has 1,800 direct shops in China and the company hopes to increase the number to 3,000 by the end of 2008. Min is quoted by local media as saying that Dell has done a lot to change its business model over the last [...]


Roundup Ready: UMPCs Coming to China (Jul 4)
Shanghai Daily reports: THOSE who like to stay in touch while on the move will be delighted by the new and cheap ultra-mobile personal computers. At least 10 new mini PCs are expected to debut within the next two months, with prices ranging from 2,999 yuan (US$438) to 4,999 yuan, half the cost of laptops. These models may [...]


Roundup: Mobile Search, Fundraising of 51.com, Ku6 and Youku (Jul 3)
Mobile search: Google China vs. Baidu: If you check any mobile Internet usage report, you will find a large percentage of traffic come from Guangdong Province. Google China recently launched offline marketing campaign to promote mobile search in Guangdong. We can find its outdoor advertisements in subway station of Guangzhou, (more photos in DWGoogle.cn). On [...]


Two Tigers Make Nice - Yahoo apologizes to Qihoo (Jul 3)
Remember China’s “liumangware wars” of a few years ago? Remember when a host of browser toolbars like 3721, the Baidu search bar, CNNIC’s product, or Zhongsou’s lamentably-acronymed “Personal Internet Gateway” would install themselves aggressively on your browser and then tenaciously resist all effort by you to get rid of them? I’ve not found a good [...]


Share Your Life With Family, Will You? (Jul 1)
Based in Shanghai, 5j5x is another Chinese family-centered social network aims to help users share their life with relatives and friends. Many of us believe Social Networks are the big things in modern Internet, but the fact we have to be aware of is that the majority of users never or seldom contact their family members through Facebook, Linkedin or other popular social networks. So can we expect the Family-Centered Social Networks will get popular one day? It is probably just a matter of time. Mail and phone call were the only ways to connect my friends when I left my home town almost 12 years ago. When Internet is available in campus, I started using QQ regularly. I also registered a couple of email addresses on different service providers, but never really used them until I had a Hotmail account, thanks to the Instant Messenger, MSN. I have to say the Internet life was pretty simple, reading news, checking emails and chatting with friends on IMs. There was one site called 5460.n...


Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool now history (Jul 1)
It seems that Yahoo has shut down the Overture Keyword Suggestion tool, as the page now redirects permanently to http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing. This was to be expected considering the long time without updates. This seems to be the end of an era, and the tool will be missed especially by diy internet marketers who, despite its inaccuracies, [...]


Youku announces $40 million infusion (Jul 1)
The video sharing sites are ever in the news these days. Just days ago, Pacific Epoch broke news that user-generated ad focused site Ku6.com had closed a $30 million third venture round from investors yet to be disclosed. At midnight last night, Youku.com, which with arch-rival Tudou.com remains one of China’s two largest video sharing [...]


Updates of Social Networking in China (Jun 28)
Social networking (SNS) becomes more focused in China. Trend Discription: Instead of setting up an all-round SNS, the IT professionals in China chose to push the SNS to a more focused direction. They try to attract registers by inviting elites of the industry circle to the network and cater to the urgent needs of the people, [...]