Chinese mobile value-added service company Linktone (LTON) says it has formed a joint venture with Greatdreams Cartoon Industry to provide animated cartoon wireless value-added services.

UTStarcom (UTSI), which has seen a large shake-up in its China operations in recent months, has announced that Peter Blackmore will be the company's new president and chief operating officer.

With frequent talk about censorship on China's Internet, many outsiders are perhaps under the impression that getting online in China is fraught with problems. They couldn't be more wrong.

Beijing Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom, has formally announced its new mobile phone email service to compete with nascent Blackberry services.

The enterprise resource planning system of Gome and Yongle has now been connected, marking the successful completion of the business integration between the two sides following their merger.

Flander Oy will acquire 100% of the mobile testing business of Beijing Hexin Digital Technology Limited.

Wang Yingde, a lawyer from Hunan Qishun Law Firm, has told local media that he will join with other Chinese consumers to launch a lawsuit against Nokia for including incorrect Chinese characters on Nokia phones.

China Telecom (CHA) has published a series of measures it plans to take to stop pornography.

Netfilm.cn, one of the largest online film copyright owners in China, has filed a lawsuit against 379 netcafes in Guangzhou and accused them of copyright violations.

After hearing consumer and industry complaints about China's disorderly mobile phone camera market, the Ministry of Information Industry now says it will soon publish a mobile phone camera standard.

In cooperation with 13 channel operators, Intel (INTC) has launched a joint maintenance program called "Mei Lian Deng" to provide better maintenance for PC consumers across China.

Juniper Networks (JNPR) says that China Telecom Shanghai has optimized its high performance next-generation IP network, supporting IPTV and other multiplay applications, by deploying additional TX Matrix and T640 core routing platforms.

The State Development and Reform Commission and the Information Work Office of the State Council have jointly released the first e-commerce development plan of China.

With the establishment of Google's (GOOG) Engineering Research Institute in Shanghai this week, Google has now formed a development system in Greater China that covers Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei.

PacificNet's (PACT.PK) subsidiary PacificNet iMobile has entered into an agreement with TiVo Greater China to market their personal video recorder products and services in China.