A senior executive of telecom giant Huawei on Wednesday called the firm "part of the solution, not the problem", days after it was blocked from bidding on a multibillion communications project in Australia.
The people of Hong Kong have long been receptive to new technologies. The significant amount of mobile data accessed in the past few years attests to this. There has been a doubling from 2.36 billion Megabytes in early 2011 to 5.05 billion Megabytes this year, with mobile users growing by 15 percent to 15 million over the same period.
Accessory makers in Shenzhen receive boost from growing popularity of IT giant's products
Out of more than 36,000 respondents, about 48.1 percent said they would "not buy the iPhone 5" in an online survey by Sina, China's major web portal.
In China's booming smartphone market, which is set this year to overtake the United States as the world's largest, a host of little-known local firms are primed with cheap phones to squeeze market share from U.S. giant Apple Inc's iPhone.
There is probably a much more important agenda behind Huawei's decision to "invest in Britain".
The increasing popularity of big State-owned enterprises among Chinese employees is becoming more evident as the economic recession in Western countries forces foreign businesses to cut staff.
One can never underestimate the importance of cell phones in people's lives today. Many people are so reliant on their cell phones that the devices have become inseparable part of their everyday lives.
Are gadgets like iPhones and iPads fast becoming part of our mind and body, extensions of ourselves? Is our craze for iPhones and iPads alike going a bit too far, too irrational?
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