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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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What’s the Chinese government’s definition of spam? According to the State Council’s Office for Rectifying Malpractice, it’s a “wrongdoing…which is profit-seeking in defiance of public interests,” for the Nasdaq-traded Chinese…

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China Mobile’s has been on a growth streak for some time. IDG News reports the country’s largest operator--and indeed the world’s--China Mobile grew by 68.1 million new subscribers last year--about…

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A mixed bag for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). Just a day after Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) warned that sales of mobile handsets were slowing, and a week after Texas…

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Another big win for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). The Finnish handset giant announced today that it had struck a deal with Chinese mobile phone wholesaler China Postel to supply $2 billion…

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Chinese mobile content provider Hurray has nixed its planned $160 million merger with TV production company Enlight. The two companies said in November that they would combine, melding their various…

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South Korea’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) said today it is purchasing a 42.2 percent stake in Chinese music recording company Beijing-based Taihe Rye Music to allow it…

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Has China Mobile been talking to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) over iPhone—or hasn’t it? Reuters reports that China’s largest mobile operator by customer base said today it had not been in…

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NYT discovers that the 1.4 million missing iPhones (not registered on their respective networks in U.S. and Europe) have landed up in, lo and behold, China. Well, a lot of…

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Several reports came out this week saying that unwanted text messages, or spam, sent to the mobile phone is on the rise. Quoting a report by mobile security firm Cloudmark,…

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Mobile entertainment is popular among the Chinese, with 34.8 percent reporting they listened to mobile music and 10 percent played a downloaded mobile game in December, according to M:Metrics, which…

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CDC Corp. will increase its investment to Japanese 3G mobile content provider BBMF. The new investment will increase CDC’s total investment in BBMF to approximately $10 million. Based in Tokyo,…

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BroadWebAsia, an investment firm started by Brad Greenspan, has offered to buy a majority share of Chinese mobile content and applications provider Linktone (NSDQ: LTON), challenging a November offer from…

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At the World Economic Forum, Jianzhou Wang, the CEO of China Mobile says the company is anticipating future declines in the Asian stock market. To capitalize on the falling asset…

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Juniper Research has issued its (typically bullish) predictions for mobile content, predicting the total global mobile content market will rise from $20 billion in 2007 to more than $64 billion…

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Shanghai-based game development outsourcer Ultizen has acquired Mo-Star, a mobile game developer based in Beijing. Mo-Star has a library of 200 games and is identified as a key vendor to…

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The on again-off again talks between China Mobile and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to bring the iPhone to the world’s most populous mobile phone market are off again. After months of…

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