Thanks to iPhone 4+WCDMA, China Unicom is really catching up with China Mobile and China Telecom in 3G. But let’s not forget about another fact about China Unicom’s iPhone 4, it has WiFi-enabled, which implied another battle field for the operators, the WiFi hot spots. By end of 2009, China Telecom has already set up […]
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The TD-SCDMA Drama – who win and who loss
The post I wrote about China Mobile got a quite few feedbacks. Thank you for reading it and even more if you have left a comment. Some of the readers are quite mad that I am not supportive of the home grown 3G standard, calling it the worst among the three licences. First of all, […]
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China Mobile – losing its influence
Happy New Year!! In the beginning of a year, many organizations will give their predictions for the coming year. I seldom predict the future. But, I think one thing that is rather certain in 2011: China Mobile is losing its influence . Many people already know the reason. It is because it was grant […]
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'Go Android', Developer Conference Coming to Shanghai At 11st Jan
If you are looking for business opportunities in mobile industry, there is no doubt you should pay more attention on Android which might dominate the mobile os industry in 2011. China is certainly one of the fastest growing Android market. If more phone manufactures can manage to cut down the price of Android phone to […]
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China Unicom official launch Mobile Payment by year end
China Unicom, the second largest mobile operator in China, will officially launch mobile payment by the end of this year. It has tested its mobile payment solution in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing. Now, it is ready to commercially launch the services. The first city to be offered the service will be Beijing. China […]
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17 companies apply for Third Party Payment licence
Since Chinese Central Bank announced details of the third party payment licences, 17 companies have applied for the licenses. (Here is an article about it in Chinese: http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2010-12-30/02075043339.shtml) As expected, they included Alibaba’s Alipay, Tencent’s Tenpay and government back China Unionpay. In fact, four of China Unionpay’s subsidiaries are applying for the license. Two of them […]
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Bingo! Tencent's PengYou.com Adds Facebook Authentication
I am not sure if Mark of Facebook met with Pony Ma of Tencent or not during his trip in China (probably NOT). But certainly Tencent has unofficially connected with Facebook by integrating Facebook Authentication. Thanks for the tip from our reader Yu Junde who left a comment on our previous post: Pengyou is indeed […]
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Tencent's Real Name Social Network, Pengyou.com is Now An Open Platform
Tencent seems truly serious about opening up itself this time. Just two weeks after it released its open API. Just hours ago, Tencent’s social network Pengyou.com announced its open platform where you can already find around 40 applications from third-parties. First of all, what is Pengyou (means Friend). You may only knows QZone, the social […]
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The9 brings social gaming network OpenFeint to China
Shanghai based online game company The9 is moving its direction to mobile internet. One of its key initiatives is to bring U.S. social gaming network OpenFeint (http://openfeint.com) to China. OpenFeint is a mobile game platform running over iPhones and Android phones. It has over 3,400 games and 45 million users. Besides playing games, it also allow game […]
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Heaven or Hell? Chinese Location-Based Check-in Services at the End of 2010
Location-based check-in service, is one of the hottest keywords in mobile market this year. This business is controversial, as we all agree that location-based service is full of potential, but check-in seems boring and lacking of revenue model.But if you believe in this market, you need give it a go, now! Today’s obviously an interesting […]