Google Maps is the most popular maps app in China, but the Internet giant hasn’t been able to provide the Street View feature because it‘is difficult to get the government’s approval, considering all the hang-ups that the company has with the Chinese government. A small Chinese mapping website has therefore gone ahead and cloned Google’s Street View feature for China. Read more...
ZTE Corp., China’s own telecommunications equipment and network solutions provider, announced that according to the Dell’Oro Group, they (ZTE) ranked top in the Packet Transmission Networking (PTN) market for Q1 of 2011 when it comes to revenue. Read more...
China’s online business portal, Alibaba, has introduced an ‘Alipay’ app that will help customers make their purchases using their mobile phones. Read more...
Nokia is still the favored choice of mobile phone users in China. If you ask the question, which is the most popular mobile brand for web browsing in China, the answer is not the iPhone, it’s the Nokia 5230. Read more...
Huawei has teamed up with the Indian Government to help them fight cyber attacks and espionage from other nations done through mobile-phone technology. The company recently set up a lab in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore to search smartphone and telecom devices imported to India for spyware or malware. Read more...
The Android number game started in May 2010 with 100,000 daily activations, and then reached 200,000 by August, 300,000 in December and finally 400,000 in May this year. Android world domination still isn’t slowing down. The proud dad Andy Rubin tweeted the pretty amazing figures for Android this week—500,000 activations every day. That’s not every week or month, it’s half a million activations daily! Read more...
Last week fans with their owls waited eagerly for Rowling to reveal the mystery of Pottermore. And then Harry Potter finally made an appearance with a magical wand in one hand and an eReader in the other! Yep, Harry Potter will soon fly over your eReaders on his broom and this is sure to boost eReader ownership. But according to Pew research, eReaders are already quite popular and have outpaced tablets with US adults. Read more...
China is building a Cloud Computing region called the ‘Special Administrative Region’ (SAR), in Chongqing, a major city in SouthWest China, in order to gain market share in cloud computing. Read more...
Apple certainly knows how to generate attention for upcoming projects;rumors with no source keep the mobile industry busy and engaged with expectations over the release of the iPhone 5. Read more...
Shanda, a Chinese online media provider and online game developer invested USD 1 million in GoAPK, a Chinese alternative market for Android apps. Read more...
China’s craze for Apple’s products is well known so it may not surprise you that the country is Apple’s second biggest Apps market after the US. The apps market in Asia, across all platforms, is growing along with the uptake of smart handsets, but free apps are far more popular than they are in the West. Read more...
Huawei has launched cloud services in India to not only enter the enterprise services market, but to help telecom providers launch their applications in a cost-effective way (obviously to add value to their handsets). Read more...
Last year RIM ranked fourth in the IDC’s list of top five mobile brands, but 2011 has marked the exit of RIM from the top five. Although on Thursday RIM announced excellent first quarter earnings, RIM is in trouble. Aside from good earnings, RIM also announced job cuts, delays in product shipments and forecasts for reduced earnings. Dark clouds are looming on the horizon for RIM while Shanzhai BlackBerry services are gaining mass adoption. Read more...
Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma wants a better focus for their grand Chinese eBay venture, which has flourished into the leading ecommerce portal we all know. Ma is splitting Taobao.com into three separate retail units to serve the consumers “more effectively” and to deal with the momentous growth and rising competition. Read more...
Angry Birds is quite a phenomenon in China; the game holds the No.2 spot in the App Store. Rovio is very happy with the game’s popularity there, and is now looking to set up an office in China, to develop its businesses of stores, games and business co-operations. Read more...
