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Updated: China to Google: Here’s our compromise – “disobey and you will pay”

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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iPhone in China Today and Tomorrow

Posted in Apple, China, China Mobile, China Unicom, Hong Kong, iPad, iPhone, iPhone Hong Kong, iPhone in China on Mar 12th, 2010

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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Updated: WAPI/WiFi on an official iPhone in China?

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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China Unicom denies iPhone price drop rumors

Posted in Apple, China Unicom, iPhone, iPhone in China, W-CDMA, WAPI, WiFi on Mar 4th, 2010

In the wake of the latest comments from China Unicom CEO Chang Xiaobing (stating that China Unicom and Apple are engaged in discussions over the possibility of delivering an “official” WiFi-enabled iPhone to China) there were rumors that China Unicom would drop the price of the current iPhone models, which have no WiFi capability (no WiFi chip – [...]

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Apple plans to open 25 Stores in China

Posted in Apple, China, Tim Cook on Feb 25th, 2010

I attended the Apple (AAPL) Shareholders’ Meeting today (Feb 25, 2010) and heard the word directly from Apple Chief Operating Officer (COO) Tim Cook … Apple plans to open 25 Apple Stores in China. Specific timelines for groundbreaking weren’t revealed, but Apple (Tim Cook) did note during the recent Goldman Sachs Technology Conference that Apple was [...]

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