Two online publishers this week claimed apparently conflicting rights to what could be a critical service for corporations doing business in China -- official, up-to-date information on China's legal system.
A group of Chinese companies led by HiNet Holdings Ltd. today will announce an agreement to build a fiber-optic network that by midyear will connect Guangzhou, one of southern China's most important industrial cities, with Beijing and Shanghai.
Hyatt International Corp. today announced at a press conference here its plans to offer broadband Internet access in all Hyatt hotels outside the U.S., using I-Quest Corp.'s Worldroom Connect service.
Seven software companies in China, backed up by Intel and a pair of government agencies, each plan to set up support and service centers for Linux users and developers in China, an Intel representative said yesterday.
Despite the availability of more than 1,100 consumer e-commerce sites in China by the end of this year's first quarter, the country's e-commerce market is still in its infancy, according to results of a national survey reported today on the Web site of the official People's Daily newspaper.
Hong Kong Internet investment company Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. (PCCW) yesterday announced a joint venture with Hong Kong-based Commercial Radio Productions Ltd. that will add the content creator's programming to PCCW's Network of the World (NOW) multimedia broadband service.
Seven software companies in China, backed up by Intel Corp. and a pair of government agencies, each plan to set up support and service centers for Linux users and developers in China, an Intel representative said today.
Three of Hong Kong's major mobile telecommunications carriers today kicked off an initiative aimed at making it safer for consumers to buy goods and services via their cell phones.
The Chinese government supports the growth of news coverage on the Internet -- given adequate regulation, a senior government official said, according to a report today on the Web site of the official People's Daily newspaper.
Intel Corp. has established in Beijing its third Wireless Competence Center to help local vendors develop mobile phones and other wireless handheld devices, the company announced yesterday.
China's dominant telecommunications carrier next month will launch IP (Internet protocol) telephony services inside China, bringing the rapidly emerging technology to a huge and largely untapped telecommunications market.
Hong Kong-based ISP (Internet service provider) Diyixian.com Ltd. today announced it will set up 11 Internet centers, designed to span Greater China, with load-balancing devices and mirroring arrangements to provide companies with high-reliability Internet hosting.
A consortium of U.S. and Hong Kong companies, including Verisign Inc., yesterday teamed up with Acer Inc.-backed Taiwanese Internet security vendor HiTrust.com Inc. to extend the company's certificate authority business to China and southeast Asia, HiTrust announced.
Due to a reporting error, the April 17 article "Asian Stocks Take a Beating" incorrectly reported the relationship between the IPO price and closing price of shares of Tom.com Ltd.
Chinese securities regulators have established provisional rules for online stock trading, according to a report by the official Xinhua news agency.