Posted in China, China Mobile, iPhone in China on Mar 17th, 2010
Update March 17, 2010: China Mobile CEO, Wang Jianzhou, is talking “Apple” again. During a recent press conference, Wang Jianzhou revealed that he is interested in the iPad and has told Apple that China Mobile would also like to see a special version of iPhone with a chipset that supports time division synchronous code division [...]
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Posted in Android, China, Google on Mar 13th, 2010
Update – March 13, 2010: The other shoe has dropped … The Financial Times is reporting that Google will indeed terminate their search business in China as talks with authorities have reached an “impasse;” Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain [...]
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iPhonAsia.com interview with Hong Kong’s NeonPunch.com The editors of NeonPunch.com, a gadget site in Hong Kong, posed several questions for the editor of iPhonAsia (yours truly). My responses are in a two-part interview: Part 1 Part 2
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Posted in Technology on Mar 9th, 2010
Chambers: “The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate” How does that sports adage go? “Hey, it’s not bragging if you can back it up!” Cisco Systems today unveiled its new “lightning-bolt” fast CRS-3 Internet core router, with three (3Xs) times the capacity of its current platform. This new paradigm changing router will [...]
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Posted in iPhone, WiFi on Mar 8th, 2010
Update May 5, 2010 > Read Here. Update – March 8, 2010: There were several reasons why WiFi on mobile calling devices (phones) was initially banned in China, and it’s also fairly clear why a compromise has been reached (April 2009 – China’s MIIT authorized a WAPI/WiFi stack), although it’s not definitive that Apple will [...]
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