China Mobile (CHL) has chosen Sybase 365 to extend its international SMS connectivity to an additional 44 countries and more than 130 operators.

South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung Electronics has announced plans to restructure its business and send Lee Jae-yong, elder son of Kun-Hee Lee, former chairman of the group, to work in China.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority is prepared to help facilitate fixed and mobile network operators to engage in commercial negotiations relating to the withdrawal of the regulatory guidance on "Mobile Party's Network Pays".

South Korean telecom operator SK Telecom announced on Tuesday that it would invest US$1 billion to jointly build a digital content and design center in China with several of its partner and subsidiary companies.

Believing that Yahoo China has infringed his copyright by providing links to the photos he has taken for some stars, a professional photographer surnamed Wen has sued Yahoo China, asking the website company to pay CNY317,500 in compensation.

Though it has not reached a final agreement with China Unicom (CHU) on the price of acquiring the latter's CDMA network, China Telecom (CHA) has already begun to make arrangements for the operation of the network.

Chinese Internet travel website eLong.com (LONG) reported its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 and says net loss from continuing operations worsened year-on-year by CNY31.7 million to CNY32.6 million, driven primarily by a CNY28.3 million increase in unrealized foreign exchange losses and a CNY4.1 million decrease in interest income compared [...]

China Mobile (CHL) has published an announcement on the second round of TD-SCDMA bidding.

Chinese communications equipment provider Huawei has spun off its Application and Software Division into an independent business unit and named it Huawei Software.

Asia-Pacific Information Engine, the largest internet data center in the Asia Pacific Region, has just been launched in Guangzhou.

Building on their leadership in TD-SCDMA, NXP Semiconductors and T3G Technologies announced that the next-generation 3G cellular system solution T3G7208 is now commercially available to the Chinese market.

Chinese game developer Shanda's (SNDA) unaudited consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 show net income dropped to CNY288.8 million, down from CNY448.8 million in the first quarter of 2007 and CNY292.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2007.

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has been selected by Beijing Netcom for a next-generation network service transformation in Beijing to provide a wide range of advanced services to its customers, such as point-to-point video telephony services.

Microsoft (MSFT) is expanding the range of document formats supported in its Office productivity suite.

Chinese search engine provider Baidu.com (BIDU) has announced plans to make adjustments on its direct-selling framework in southern China.