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Nokia To Put Baidu On Handsets And Widsets Service: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 01 Jul 2008 06:13 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has struck a deal with China’s most popular search engine Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) which will provide the Finish handset maker with a mobile search platform on its…

MySpace China Partners with Micat For Mobile Version - 0 Comments
Posted By Pearl Research - Mon 23 Jun 2008 09:27 AM PST

Domestic Chinese mobile phone service provider MICAT has announced an agreement with social-networking website, MySpace (called Juyou in China). Together, they will be launching “MySpace MICAT,” a social platform for…

Where Will You Be Watching The Olympics? From Your Mobile Phone? - 4 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 23 Jun 2008 09:05 AM PST

This year, there’s a ton of media companies banking on the Olympics being the watershed moment for mobile content, and even mobile advertising. And, when you think about it, the…

Mobile Content Bits: Palringo-RIM; Viva Vision; MSNYuuZoo; Hello Kitty Portal; Duke’s Sticky Notes - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 19 Jun 2008 10:55 AM PST

-- Palringo Available On RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) Devices: Mobile instant messaging company Palringo has released its software client for BlackBerry smartphones. The firm’s Rich Messaging Service is now available for…

Sharp To Enter China’s Mobile Handset Market; Aims For The High End - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 12 Jun 2008 03:42 AM PST

Japanese electronics maker Sharp is launching an adapted model of its 920SH mobile phone in China later this month, aimed at high end users, as it makes its first foray…

China Unicom Buys China Netcom In $56.3 Billion Stock-Swap; China Telecom Buys Unicom CDMA Unit - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 02 Jun 2008 04:34 AM PST

China’s restructuring of its telecoms industry gets underway. AP reports that mobile network China Unicom is acquiring fixed-line China Netcom in a stock swap valued at $56.3 billion, based on…

Will TD-SCDMA “Hobble” China Mobile? - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 30 May 2008 04:27 AM PST

When China announced it was overhauling its telecoms industry last Saturday, it also said it would finally be issuing 3G licenses once the process was completed, which analysts believe will…

China Mobile Opens Experience Shops To Push TD-SCDMA - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 29 May 2008 01:44 PM PST

China Mobile has opened some TD-SCDMA “experience shops” to push its soft launch of the service in 8 cities, reports ABI Research. The idea is to let the public experiment…

Hutchison Telecom Plans To Sell iPhone in Hong Kong, Macau Later This Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 29 May 2008 08:59 AM PST

Hutchison Telecommunications International said today that it signed an agreement with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau later this year, reports AP. The announcement…

Chinese Mobile Content Retailer DUO GUO Providing Alternative To Bootleggers And Carrier Portal - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 28 May 2008 04:20 AM PST

Would you stand in line to get content loaded onto your mobile phone? Apparently, in China’s smaller cities where mobile phones outnumber wired internet connections, there’s a flourishing black market…

Chinese Ringtone Seller A8.com Files For IPO - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 27 May 2008 10:13 AM PST

A8.com, which mainly sells ringtones and other digital music to mobile phone subscribers in China, has filed for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong exchange to raise about…

SK Telecom Pouring $1 Billion Into Chinese Digital Content And Design Center - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 27 May 2008 05:03 AM PST

Following on the news that China is restructuring its telecoms industry and expects to issue 3G licenses after its completion, SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) said it would invest $1 billion…

China Overhauls Telecoms Industry; Aims To Increase Competition - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 27 May 2008 03:13 AM PST

China is restructuring its telecoms industry--a long-expected move that could bring increased competition to the market. The overhaul will see six of the country’s main state-owned telecoms companies reduced to…

Earnings: China’s Linktone Revs Jump 44 Percent In Q1 - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 22 May 2008 03:41 PM PST

Linktone (NSDQ: LTON), a Beijing-based company that provides wireless interactive entertainment services to consumers and advertising services to enterprises in China, announced its first-quarter financial results today, saying that revenues…

Christian Dior Turning To Designer Handsets To Boost Revenues - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 21 May 2008 03:18 AM PST

Forget the designer handbags, which are apparently on the wane anyway. French luxury goods firm Christian Dior is turning to mobile phones—priced at a jaw-dropping 3,500 euros ($5,000)—to boost revenue,…

Chinese Mobile Ad Exchange CASEE Receives $6 Million In Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 13 May 2008 02:24 AM PST

Chinese mobile advertising firm CASEE has received $6 million from London mobile marketing company Velti, which takes a 33 percent stake in the start up that China-focused news site Pacific…

3G Services In China Up And Running On China Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Apr 2008 04:25 AM PST

That was fast. Four weeks after launching a trial for its 3G service, China Mobile has determined that the high-speed phone service based on the country’s homegrown 3G standard TD-SCDMA…

Vodafone, Softbank, China Mobile Team For Mobile Widget Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 24 Apr 2008 08:57 AM PST

China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services. It will focus on mobile…

Google China Exec: Mobile-Search Volume May Exceed PCs In Three Years - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 22 Apr 2008 08:59 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still trails Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) in online search in China but has high hopes for mobile growth, Google’s China president Lee Kai-Fu said in an interview with…

China To Delay 3G Licenses By Up To 2 Years? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 14 Apr 2008 02:24 AM PST

The waiting game for 3G licenses to be issued in China looks like it will drag on, despite the recent launch of China Mobile’s trial for the standard—involving up to…

Mobile Barcode-Image Marketing: Make It Free And They Will Come? - 2 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 11 Apr 2008 05:40 AM PST

Days after we reported on American students at Case Western University being unimpressed by mobile barcodes, news surfaces from the two-year old Hong Kong company MyClick, an image recognition mobile…

Banning Mobile Spam Forces Focus Media To Slash 2008 Forecast - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 11 Apr 2008 03:04 AM PST

Live by spam, die by spam. Just weeks after China Focus Media Holding (NSDQ: FMCN) found itself in trouble with the Chinese authorities for regularly carpet bombing some 200 million…

iPhone Shortage: Runaway Gray Market In Emerging Markets To Blame? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 03 Apr 2008 03:09 AM PST

The mystery of the missing iPhones has reached a fever pitch, and several pundits including Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster have interpreted the shortage to mean that a 3G model…

China Mobile To Begin Testing Homegrown 3G Standard TD-SCDMA - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 28 Mar 2008 05:21 AM PST

Can China get it together with 3G in time for the Olympics? China Mobile Communications, parent company to the country’s largest mobile network China Mobile, will begin testing China’s homegrown…

China’s Tom Group In Losses of $38 million; CEO Resigns - 0 Comments
Posted By Pearl Research - Thu 27 Mar 2008 10:04 AM PST

The Hong Kong-headquartered Chinese online and mobile media group Tom Group announced its 2007 financial results, and the once-profitable company is now operating at a loss and Tom Group Limited…