China Telecom is moving into the mobile instant messaging space with its own app that will compete against WeChat, the rival product from Internet giant Tencent that's become a hit in China. China Telecom on Monday launched the YiChat app ...
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China plans to bring gigabit Internet speeds to its major cities by 2020, part of its effort to expand broadband among households in the nation.? The Chinese government set out the target in its new broadband strategy announced on ...
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A person in the know revealed that a JV formed between China Telecom Corporation Ltd. (NYSE: CHA and SEHK: 0728) and NetEase Inc. (Nasdaq: NTES) will take charge of affiliated IM service of the telecom carrier similar to WeChat, facing ...
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China's telecoms regulator has recently added a touch of clarity to the confusion surrounding the future technological direction of the country's mobile market – a touch and nothing more. After months of speculation on when the ...
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An 8,900 kilometer undersea fiber cable system in Asia, backed by a consortium including Google, China Telecom, NEC and a host of local telecommunications companies, went live Thursday. The Southeast Asia-Japan Cable (SJC) system has an ...
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The European Union may be trying to protect its telecom equipment industry with its recent threat to investigate China over networking equipment imports. But the move could end up hurting the chances of Western vendors intent on supplying ...
To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance costs in data centers. The architecture, announced on Tuesday, calls for decoupling ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook met today with Xi Guohua,head of China Mobile,the world's largest wireless carrier,triggering speculation that the two firms will strike a deal this year. "We believe media reports of Tim's Cook meeting this week with ...
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Apple today said it has sold 2 million iPhone 5 smartphones in China since Friday, setting an opening weekend sales record for the country. The announcement was Apple's first to trumpet sales in the People's Republic of China (PRC), as ...
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As Apple prepares to launch its iPhone 5 in China, some analysts expect the product to sell well in the country and possibly even top sales for Apple's previous iPhone models in the country. Apple will finally launch the iPhone 5 in China ...
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Apple dropped out of the top five list in China's smartphone market for the third quarter, as local handset vendors saw their shipments surge from the sales of low-priced smartphone models, according to research firm Canalys. The maker of ...
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Apple has the all clear to launch the iPad mini and iPad 4 in China after the regulator there cleared China’s regulatory hurdles. To date only the WiFi versions of the devices are available in China. However, the iPad remains ...
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Apple has become the target of another lawsuit in China, this time because of its Siri technology, with a Shanghai-based company alleging that Apple has infringed on a patent involving its own personal assistant software. The company, ...
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Facebook has taken a stake in a $450 million project to link South Asian countries with an undersea cable, a company spokeswoman said Friday. The project is expected to be ready some time in 2014. "We're making this investment to support ...
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The number of IPTV households is expected to increase from 80 million in 2012 to 117 million in 2017 Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform has expanded share in IPTV middleware market to 23% by the first half of 2013 despite competition ...
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