The Information Equipment Resource Sharing Cooperation Service Standard version 1.0 (IGRS Standard) has finished the Ministry of Information Industry's review process and has been approved as an industry standard.

Officials from the Ministry of Information Industry have made remarks about the eventual roll-out of 3G in China.

UTStarcom's (UTSI) MovingMedia 8000 3G WCDMA wireless softswitch core infrastructure solution has successfully completed 3GPP R4 standard performance testing in China.

After a year of speculation and beta tests Sina.com (SINA) has unveiled its new search engine at iAsk.com.

Local media report that a man surnamed Lin in Shenzhen has registered five domain names related to "One World One Dream", the English slogan of Beijing Olympic 2008.

AsiaInfo (ASIA) has signed contracts with China Netcom's subsidiary Jilin Netcom to provide AsiaInfo's billing software and online messaging software.

To get enough fiber and bandwidth for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China Netcom plans to work with Japan's NEC to invest US$24 million to complete part of the East Asia Cable (EAC) by May 2005.

Microsoft (MSFT) has joined with Xiamen-based Amoi Electronics to pre-install Microsoft Windows XP in all of Amoi's notebook computers.

Mobiltek (MOBK) has secured two new systems integration contracts from two additional telecommunications services providers in China.

China TieTong has begun migration to a Cisco (CSCO) IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) for the latest expansion of its CRNET backbone.

The State Language Committee (SLC) and China's Committee on Information Technology Standards / China Electronics Standardization Institute (CITS/CESI) have certified Bitstream's (BITS) GB18030 font, Bitstream Hei.

AsiaInfo (ASIA) has signed a contract with Shanghai Mobile to provide AsiaInfo's IN-BOSS billing software solution to support the carrier's real-time monitoring of prepaid calling charges.

China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) says that China's netizens now number more than 100 million.

Nanjing's Jiangning District local government has signed an agreement with Time Innovation Ventures, a US venture capital company, to build a microelectronics industrial park.

According to local media reports, Chinese e-commerce website Joyo.com has closed its Shanghai and Guangzhou marketing departments following the dismissal of executives Lin Shuixing and Chen Nian. The closures will most likely affect up to 30 company personnel.