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China, still working on its long-delayed homegrown third-generation wireless standard, has leapfrogged itself by launching the world's first fourth-generation standard, state media said on Monday.
Data-rich 3G telephony -- which allows high-speed transmission of data and images -- is not yet available in mainland China.
But a group of 10 "leading domestic institutions" called the "FuTURE Project" on Sunday rolled out 4G in Shanghai.
China aims to hold field tests for the 4G system -- whose rollout has cost $19.3 million; and will...
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"It took me about twenty minutes to locate a 2-disc set that purports to be Vista Ultimate. This product lists for $399 retail. I purchased it for 20 RMB, or about $2.50. I won't open the box and install it (I would not recommend this to anyone for both moral and just plain safety reasons). The version is in Chinese, and is probably what Microsoft is calling the "Frankenbuild" version.
This version combines portions of the beta tests with the final code to create software that is supposed to avoid the shut-down system built into Vista."
The first batch of 80 computers powered by home-grown Chinese CPUs are undergoing user tests. This means the home-made chip Godson II E has finished lab tests and moved into pilot commercial operation.
Lemote, based in Changshu, in east China's Jiangsu Province, will put a total of 1,000 computers on the market before the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The computer, which uses a Linux operating system, comes with a 40-gigabyte hard drive and 256 megabytes of memory. It costs 1,599 yuan (about 200 U.S. dollars), and users have to buy the...
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The market for IPTV, which enables TV broadcasting over broadband Internet, is expected to take off in China next year as fixed line operators seek ways to grow, an industry executive said yesterday.
"IPTV could get a head-start next year in China," said Huang Dabin, vice-president of the network division of China's No 2 telecoms equipment maker ZTE Corp.
In an interview with China Daily on the sidelines of the ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong, Huang predicted the number of IPTV subscribers in China could exceed 1 million next year,...
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Today 20 firms -- representing 97 percent of the DVD manufacturers in the country -- displayed 80 players and announced plans to switch from DVD to the new format exclusively by 2008. EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc) joins VMD as a low cost alternative to Blu-ray and HD DVD, using conventional red lasers combined with advanced compression technology to put high definition movies on discs.
This "Red-ray" HD approach promises to support resolutions up to 1080p without a need to increase disc capacity significantly, and will allow them to launch...
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A panel of experts in China has approved a computer operating system for servers developed in the country.
The Kylin operating system, developed by China's University of Science and Technology for National Defense, was approved by a panel of experts from the state 863 Hi-tech Research and Development Program office, Xinhua, China's official government-run news agency, reported Monday.
The developers of Kylin said it is compatible with other commonly used operating systems and supports multiple microprocessors and computers of different...
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China has directed a contract manufacturer of iPod music players to establish a union this year, Chinese media reported on Friday, after the company sued two Chinese journalists over a report accusing it of mistreating employees.
The government of the southern boomtown Shenzhen ordered the Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Foxconn), the Shenzhen branch of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry, to set up a union by the end of this year, the Beijing News said.
The General Workers' Union of the city had been urging the company to establish...
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China and Russia plan to launch a joint mission to Mars in 2009 to scoop up rocks from the red planet and one of its moons, a Chinese scientist said on Wednesday.
Russia will launch the spacecraft, while China will provide the survey equipment to carry out the unmanned exploration, Ye Peijian, a senior scientist at the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, told a meeting in Beijing, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
The mission will be another step in China's ambitious program to jump to the forefront of space...
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Yan Xiaohong, the vice director of National Copyright Administration of China, expressed that China was preparing to build up an anti-Internet-pirate platform which could effectively identify whether one piece of software, movie, music or works was legally authorized or not. Yan Xiaohong said that this anti-pirate system would first be used to authenticate software.
Yan admitted that the level of China’s protection of Internet copyrights was still lower than that of developed countries but he also pointed that Internet pirate was a global...
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"First, China began to assemble household products for the U.S. market. Then the country graduated to notebooks. Now Chinese companies are performing research for classified systems bound for the Defense Department."
So says David Lewis, CEO of StarTech. StarTech is a high-end outsourcing firm. It has retained students and professors at Tsinghua University, China's most prestigious technical university, and contracts them out to independent companies in the West. StarTech can also retain scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (One...
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