China on Tuesday officially launched a State-sponsored mapping website that is aimed at offering "authoritative, credible and unified" online mapping service.
China is seeking fresh approaches to enforce the ban on unauthorized software and to promote the installation of legitimate software, a senior official said on Monday.
During the past two years, business for China's biggest PC maker has not only survived the financial crisis but also won market share from rivals.
India's IT companies started their businesses in China by serving large multinational clients but now they are ramping up efforts to win more domestic companies in order to consolidate their foothold.
More than 44 million personal computer users fell victim to phishing websites in 2010, rendering a loss totaling 20 billion yuan ($3 billion), according to a report released on Friday by one of China's top computer security service providers.
Global Positioning System (GPS) software is set to become the next "must-have" function for cell phones, with a projected sales growth of more than 90 percent to reach 19 million units in China this year, said industry experts.
Low profit margins caused by fierce competition and poor software support may force Chinese e-book manufacturers to upscale their production and enter the tablet PC industry instead, said industry experts.
China Telecom said Wednesday it has no information about the possibility of bringing in Apple's iPhone 4 CDMA-2000 version, National Business Daily reported Thursday.
China plans to continue preferential policies for the software and integrated circuit (IC) industries to accelerate growth, according to government officials.
The Asian subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc (SCEI), the maker of the PlayStation series of home video-game products, signed a letter of intent on Tuesday for training, and research and development (R&D) in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, marking its entry to the mainland market.
The Qingdao city government and Microsoft China recently signed a purchase contract for copyrighted office software used in government offices.
China's spending on developing nanotechnology over the past five years was more than three times that between 2001 and 2005, a national nanotechnology coordination committee announced on Tuesday at its conference in Beijing.