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China Launches Map World
Map World is China’s attempt at bringing their own mapping service to the net. The new site launched on Thursday and can be found at either www.tianditu.cn or www.chinaonmap.cn. The service features both two and three dimentioanl mapping solutions and allow users to search for local business and keep up to date with traffic conditions. [...]
Google Faces Legal Threats
Google China are in the news again this week this time because 7 of it’s Chinese advertising partners are planning legal action against the search giant. The 7 ad-resellers claim that Google owe them compensation for loss of earnings due to the company redirecting it’s home page from Google.cn to Google.hk earlier in the year. [...]
2 New Android Tablets From Shenzhen Encore
Shenzhen Encore have just launched two great looking Android tablets with 7 inch or 8 inch screens and a choice of either Android 2.1 or 2.2. The features look fantastic too! The 7 inch model named the M702 (when will they give these tabs interesting names?) runs Android 2.1 on a Telechips Arm II CPU. [...]
Google Still Doesn’t Have Mapping License
The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) are currently handing out surveying licenses to online services who want to provide a maps of China on line. Around 70-80 companies have submitted applications some of which have already been granted to Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Sohu and Sina. The only foreign company to apply and recieve [...]
Archos ‘iPad Killer’
Archos have just shown off 5 new Android tablets and the Chinese press are reporting that the newly revealed Archos 101 (101 refers to the 10.1 inch multi-touch screen) could be an iPad ‘killer’! It’s a fairly bold claim, but can the new kid on the block really hold it’s own against the established daddy [...]
5 New Android Tablets From Archos
Archos has revealed 5 new tablets for the Chinese market starting at $99 and rising to a reasonable $349 with their Archos 101 ‘iPad killer’. Each of the Archos tablets run Android operating systems and range from 2.8 inches to 10.1 inches in screen size. Here’s a quick peek at all 5 new tabs. Archos [...]
Huawei Plans $152 Android Phone For Europe
Huawei are planning to enter the European smart phone market with their Ideos smart phones. The Android based phone is planned to be sold for around $152, which analysts point ou,t may force current market leaders to become more competitive. Although it has not been revealed which carrier the Froyo powered touch screen device will [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tablet Sneaky Hands On VIDEO
Looks like someone got their grubby hands on a Samsung Galaxy Tablet and managed to make this covert recording, which shows off a few of this Android tablets features. It looks great!!
Exclusive: Hands On With The ePad Android Tablet
We take an exclusive look at the Android powered ePad to see how it compares to Apple’s iPad.
HaiPad Looks Good and Runs Android 2.1
Most of these iPad clones aren’t very good, could the HaiPad be any better?!
Alibaba and Sohu Team Up and Take It To Google
Google has lost momentum in China this last year, and local search engines are soaking up all that lost traffic. Baidu are still top dog for Chinese search, but a new partnership between Sohu and Alibaba announced this week is likely to stir things up. Sohu launched it’s Sogou.com search engine in 2004, is the [...]
Google Embarks on China Hiring Spree
Despite recent problems leading to many top engineers and execs leaving Google’s China office Google Inc have been on a hiring rampage adding more than 2000 new staff in the first quarter of the year. Google has lost ground on local search engine Baidu and are hoping the latest recruitment drive will help the company [...]
$90 Android Tablet with Samsung CPU and GPS
A $90 Android tablet from Shenzhen with Samsung GPS and 667Mhz CPU.
Panda Suite iPhone Update brings Video editing to 3.X O.S
Panda Suite allows you to install hacked apps on your iDevice for free! This update claims to add video editing too!
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