Luan Qingwei, director of Dalian Municipal Information Industry Bureau, has disclosed that the output value of Dalian's software industry will exceed CNY40 billion and the export value will be more than $1.5 billion by the end of the 11th Five-year Plan.

After three years of investigation, the China E-athletics Management Measures, the first of its kind in the country, has finally been promulgated to regulate the e-athletics market order in China.

Microsoft (MSFT) China announced at its 2007 fiscal year media communications conference that it would continue to enlarge investment in China and work to push forward the development of the local software industry by cooperating with the Chinese government and local business partners.

Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp has now become a target of criticism in China for adopting a "fake" screen for its LCD televisions.

AMD (AMD) and Founder Technology announced an agreement to offer Founder customers a range of systems based on AMD64 processors.

Lenovo (LNVGY) and IBM (IBM), in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, announced the voluntary recall of approximately 526,000 lithium-ion batteries worldwide manufactured by Sony Corporation.

China's Ministry of Information Industry has released a new rule for dealing with mobile information service disputes.

The rampant stealing of ADSL numbers is expected to come to an end with Beijing Netcom adopting a new measure.

Chongqing officials have reviewed the "Chongqing Computer Information System Security Protection Rule" and have made some changes.

SK Telecom and China Unicom (CHU) have announced a joint purchase of over one million mobile phones. This is the first major achievement that the parties have made since they reached an alliance earlier this year.

WangYou Media says it has established a strategic partnership with Baidu.com (BIDU) for the development and promotion of Web-based multimedia content.

Intel (INTC) announced on that its affiliate Intel Capital has agreed to invest US$40 million to Chinese software company Neusoft.

Wang Chunwen, general manager of Oracle's (ORCL) Enterprise Management Software Service in China, has disclosed to local media that Oracle will increase its subsidiaries in China from the current 5 to 26 in the 2007 fiscal year.

Hong Kong-listed recruitment advertising group, Recruit Holdings Ltd, is going to cooperate with Netease.com (NTES) to launch a job-seeking portal 1010job.com.

Local media reports that Tom Online (TOMO) will soon announce the acquisition of eBay Eachnet and Paypal in China in the next few days.