The Chinese government is set to launch a 40 billion Yuen ($6.5 billion) venture capital fund to support emerging industries and start-up tech companies. The scheme is to be ...
January 19, 2015 at 10:58 am by Ashley Allen
Within four minutes of being made available for pre-order, the Nokia N1 Android Tablet sold every one of its 20,000 units in China yesterday. Nokia made the announcement ...
January 10, 2015 at 3:55 am by Ashley Allen
An image of what appears to be a manufacturing mould for the rumoured iPad Pro have leaked online. The image was uploaded to China’s Twitter equivalent – Weibo. ...
January 9, 2015 at 4:55 pm by Ryan Simmons
Google’s popular email service, Gmail, has finally been blocked in China. GreatFire.org says that China’s ‘Great Firewall’ had finally kept citizens ...
December 29, 2014 at 6:16 pm by Ryan Simmons
Apple has responded to the claims put forward in the BBC documentary concerning the rights of workers at some of its suppliers in China and Indonesia. The response came from ...
December 19, 2014 at 4:58 pm by Ryan Simmons
BBC current affairs programme Panorama has released footage of Apple factory workers in China being worked to the point of exhaustion, with some staff even falling asleep on ...
December 19, 2014 at 4:22 am by Ashley Allen
Notice any similarities between that name and the name of one of Apple’s latest phones? Yes, the Chinese manufacturer Huawei, has decided to call its ‘Honor’ ...
December 16, 2014 at 11:10 pm by Ryan Simmons
Xiaomi is now the fourth most successful smartphone manufacturer in the world, according to researchers at Gartner. During the third quarter of 2014, Xiaomi sold 18.8 million ...
December 16, 2014 at 12:42 am by Ashley Allen
The BBC reports on the news that robots have taken up the positions of the waiters at a restaurant in China. The robots are presumably designed to replace human waiters and ...
December 13, 2014 at 9:41 pm by Ryan Simmons
From 11th January, the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita will finally go on sale in China. The news is significant as they are some of the first Western consoles to go on sale in ...
December 11, 2014 at 10:17 pm by Ryan Simmons
Sony Pictures, who were subject of a massive hack to their computer systems recently, is investigating the possibility that the hack was by North Korea. Sources close to the ...
November 29, 2014 at 10:16 pm by Ryan Simmons
Chinese web company Baidu are to release an innovative SmartBike, called the DuBike, before the end of the year. Baidu run China’s premier web search site – their ...
November 29, 2014 at 2:25 am by Ashley Allen
A report in The Wall Street Journal says that sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S5 flagship phone were down 40 percent in its first 3 months on sale. The report suggests that ...
November 24, 2014 at 7:58 pm by Ryan Simmons
Wuzhen in China hosted the World Internet Conference earlier this week, and the state refused to allow the opportunity to push its online censorship agenda to pass. China, ...
November 21, 2014 at 6:54 pm by Ashley Allen
Domestic 4G standard TD-LTE offerings in China have undergone a massive improvement in network speed. Testing sponsored by Shenzhen Mobile has come back with positive results ...
November 18, 2014 at 6:40 am by Chris Smith
