Windows 8.1 build 9415 screenshots appear
Screenshots of Windows 8.1 build 9415 in Chinese have leaked, showing the Start button in place for the first time, as well as other features that we've seen in previous leaks. More...
Screenshots of Windows 8.1 build 9415 in Chinese have leaked, showing the Start button in place for the first time, as well as other features that we've seen in previous leaks. More...
While a non-player in the American phone market, it seems that China's Lenovo wants to bring its Android wares across the ocean, despite having never sold a phone in the United States before now. More...
Speaking at a press conference in Shanghai, Steve Ballmer confirmed that the company is hiring "several thousand" new workers in China, to support its Windows Phone and Windows Azure efforts. More...
Apple has been hit with a $118,000 fine for illegally distributing copyrighted material in China. Judge Feng Gang ruled that Apple showed negligence in ensuring uploaded content was legal. More...
The warranties for Microsoft's Surface tablets are being criticized by the state-run Chinese media, following similar criticisms from the same media of Apple's warranties. More...
While the market share of Internet Explorer 6 remains low in many Western countries, China's huge share of 25.8% presents a thorn in the sides of Microsoft's effort to rid the word of the browser More...
Chinese state media have returned to their previous position in favour of Apple, praising Tim Cook for apologising over allegations of unfair treatment towards Chinese customers. More...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has issued yet another public apology, this time to the company's Chinese customers, stating it will improve communication on its warranties and improve training for service staff. More...
Microsoft has announced that China will be the first country outside the US and Canada to sell the Surface Pro tablet. The Windows 8 Pro device will begin sales on April 2nd in that country. More...
A Chinese student retail website has already started taking orders for selling Windows 9, in a deal that offers a free upgrade to the still unannounced next Windows OS if students get Windows 8. More...
Microsoft has announced it has launched a new official online web store for China at MicrosoftStore.Tmall.com, following the launch of its own Microsoft Store website in October. More...
The U.S. government is reportedly looking into claims that Microsoft might have bribed government officials in at least three countries in order to obtain government software contracts. More...
There are claims that China's state-run television network has now paid well known Chinese celebrities to slam Apple products via messages on their Weibo accounts. More...
A report exposes how the Chinese government uses TOM-Skype, the Chinese version of Microsoft's Skype, to spy on its citizens. The program searches for keywords and copies messages that contain them. More...
The Chinese government has published a report that criticises Android, and suggests that Google has been discriminating against Chinese companies. More...
Unit 61938, a group of Chinese governmental hackers responsible for more than 100 documented attacks since 2006, might have been nailed on the outskirts of the world's biggest city - Shanghai. More...
We have heard from many companies who have stated that they have been hacked by foreign entities. If you are keeping a list at home of the companies who have been infected, add Apple to the list. More...
According to a report China is set to surpass the US as the world's largest smart device market by the end of this month. This comes from data aggregated from iOS and Android apps. More...
The Chinese company Qihoo has been accused by that country's government of tricking people into downloading its software, including one which Qihoo tried to label as a Microsoft security update. More...
A recent Verizon security blog entry tells the interesting tale of "Bob", a developer who illegally got teams in China to do his job so he could go on Reddit and watch cat videos before he was fired. More...
Chinese laws forcing real-name registration to use the internet have been passed, with further revisions likely to come. The legislation could allow removal of "illegal" posts within the country. More...
The Nokia Lumia 920 has become a big hit in China, as large lines formed outside the Nokia flagship store in Shanghai this weekend to buy the Windows Phone 8-based device. More...
Apple has experienced yet another successful iPhone 5 launch, this time in China, with the handset managing to sell in excess of two million units during the first weekend launch. More...
Microsoft announced today 16 resellers of Windows PCs in China offered pirated versions of Microsoft's OS to customers and could file a lawsuit against them if private discussions are unsuccessful. More...
Following the launch of Lumia 920 in China just a few days ago, Microsoft has now signed a partnership with China Unicom, the world's 3rd largest carrier, to try and push Windows Phone 8. More...
An executive for Microsoft China hinted in a recent interview that the launch of Windows Phone 7.8 could be due within weeks in that country, but no specifics were revealed. More...
The FBI has arrested a man in connection with the theft of 3,600 iPad Mini's, but the haul, and two others remain at large while a large number of iPad Mini's are appearing on sites like Craigslist. More...
Nokia and Apple are focusing ever more on China's growing smartphone market to expand their sales - but that won't be easy, as a report claims that Android's share of the market has risen to over 90%. More...
In less than a month, behind closed doors, the UN is going to hold discussions that could have huge ramifications for internet users everywhere. Let's get them to come clean and bring it into the open More...
Google's main web site, along with other services such as its online map and email divisions, are currently blocked from being accessed by people living in China. More...
According to a Weibo post by China Mobile, their carrier-specific Lumia 920T will feature a supercharged Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with an Adreno 320 GPU, 2-3x faster than the standard Lumia 920 GPU More...
A new rumor claims that both Nokia and HTC will launch Windows Phone 8 products for the Chinese market in early December, just a few weeks after their launches in the US and Europe. More...
Following the successful launch of Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, Microsoft is expanding its public cloud platform to China, giving businesses access to the full range of Azure services. More...
Microsoft has posted up new videos of the Windows 8 launch events in China and in Germany last week, along with a new video of the massive event in New York City's Times Square. More...
An elderly couple stormed the stage of Microsoft's Surface launch event in China, saying that the noise was disturbing their grandchildren. The couple were taken away forcibly by security. More...
GooPhone, the Chinese clone maker that threatened to sue Apple over the iPhone 5 because they released a clone of the design before Apple, is at it again, with a $99 Android tablet called GooPad Mini. More...
Windows 8 will only be made available as a downloadable software product for China, as it ditches the physical box copies of the OS, most likely due to piracy concerns. More...
Microsoft held a pre-launch event for Windows 8 in Shanghai, China today, with Windows team leader Steven Sinofsky in attendance, showing off both hardware and Chinese software for the new OS. More...
As previously rumored, the large Chinese retailer Suning is now taking pre-orders for the Surface tablet from Microsoft, marking the first exception to Microsoft's plans to sell the tablet itself. More...
Microsoft has now launched a Chinese version of its Microsoft Store website and is now accepting pre-orders for the upcoming Windows RT version of the Surface tablet. More...
Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, has been targeted by an iOS game which was pulled by Apple less than an hour after it was published to the store for others to download. More...
A new rumor claims that Microsoft's upcoming Surface tablet launch may be global after all, with a report stating that the Windows RT device will be sold in China through the Suning retail store chain More...
The Asian giant is about to land in the USA, where the company will deploy its first manufacturing facility. The operation will help Lenovo better serve the local market and grow faster. More...
The White House has admitted a cyber-attack occurred on Sunday, in which the hackers could have accessed information about the country's nuclear arsenal. China has been suggested as a perpetrator. More...
Down at the other end of Lumia's range to its shiny new flagships, it seems there's no Windows Phone 8 love available, as Nokia prepares to launch the new entry-level Lumia 510 with Windows Phone 7.8. More...
Microsoft has reportedly asked four state-owned companies in China to stop using pirated versions of Microsoft Office software, along with copies of its server software. More...
Microsoft is betting on a new strategy to help Bing gain marketshare in China: targeting the 5% of searchers that use English, a small but very valuable niche in a market dominated by Baidu. More...
Google has a surprising response to the controversy surrounding supposed threats it made towards Acer for planning to release a device running Aliyun, a Chinese fork of Android: it's for your own good More...
Microsoft's CEO for its China operations has announced the company is hiring an additional 1,000 workers in the country. Microsoft currently has 4,500 employees in China. More...
A Chinese company behind an Android phone shamelessly copied from leaked iPhone 5 components claims that they own the design since they went to market first, and is threatening to sue Apple over it. More...