D-Link, a Taiwan-based maker of broadband equipment, will increase its cooperation with its Chinese partner, aiming to become the top supplier of ADSL-related products in China's broadband market, company president JC Liao said recently.

Sohu.com and the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) recently announced an agreement that will leverage Sohu's China market expertise and consumer reach with WDIG's experience as a leading content provider across multiple business lines to deliver innovative Disney online and wireless content and services to China.

Albuquerque-based Khoral Inc. has established a new distributorship agreement with Hwa Create Co. Ltd. that will enable sales of its imaging software in China, CEO John Salas said recently.

Novatel Wireless, Inc., a provider of wireless data access solutions, recently announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Beida Jade Bird Huaguang Sci-Tech Co. Ltd (Jade Bird), to sell Novatel Wireless' Merlin GPRS and CDMA Wireless PC Card Modems.

China's leading personal computer manufacture, Legend Group, recently began chopping the prices of its Soleil notebooks by about US$121, with the largest cut being a 15% slash from 11,588 yuan to 9,999 yuan, while prices of two Pentium IV products are marked down to 8,999 yuan and 7,900 yuan.

A computerized agricultural assistance system has been introduced to the homes of farmers in the southwestern mountain area of Wuling, people who have never seen a computer before, though they had heard of the "electronic brain" that could help people do high-tech things or be used by youngsters to play games.

Yangtze Telecom recently announced that it has negotiated a $3.25 million private placement led by Sprott Asset Management Inc. of Toronto, Canada and a U.S. Asset Management firm.

China's mobile telecommunications market will start the second phase of its trial of the third generation (3G) mobile communications system soon, but this may also mean that the issuing of licenses in China for that technology will have to wait for another year until the results are made available.

Sterling Commerce, a provider of business integration solutions, recently announced its official launch into mainland China.

Despite continuing to report increased revenues and profits for the recently ended fiscal quarter, restrictions on charging services to users' phone bills are forcing China's three leading Internet portals — NetEase, Sohu, and Sina — to find new growth steams.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today issued a study of China's emerging semiconductor industry which, among its conclusions, finds that the country's discriminatory Value-Added Tax (VAT) rebate scheme distorts trade investments and imposes a cost penalty for semiconductor importers trying to compete for sales in China.

Sigma Designs, a leader in digital media processing for consumer appliances, recently announced that several new IP video appliances from multiple vendors, based on Sigma's decoder chips, will enter the market over the next six months.

Digital China, China's largest information product distributor, recently officially opened its new East China headquarters in Shanghai, which it plans to become the hub of its software outsourcing and system integration business in the country, investing US$12.05 million to build the 15,000-square-meters facility in Changning District.

China United Telecommunications Corp., the country's second largest mobile telecom operator, has obtained the country's first business license from the cultural ministry to run a franchise of Net cafes nationwide, the company announced recently.

In the last five years, China's telecommunications revenue has maintained an annual growth rate of over 22% with the completion of the world's largest fixed telephone and mobile phone networks.