According to an insider from China Mobile, the Chinese telecommunications regulators have issued an order to close the Chinese personal access system, which is also known as Little Smart, before the end of 2011.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Telecom has started its first 3G terminal tender and more than 40 CDMA manufacturers are participating in the tender.

China Mobile Beijing branch says the total number of multimedia mobile messages sent via China Mobile's networks during the one week Spring Festival holiday in January 2009 nearly doubled that of 2008.

Chinese B2B e-commerce giant Alibaba plans to help Chinese small and medium enterprises gain CNY6 billion in loans from banks in 2009 to help them overcome the impact of the global financial crisis.

Chinese search engine Baidu.com has launched a beta version of a new e-commerce service which is an integration platform to help Japanese companies sell Japanese-made products to Chinese mainland customers.

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Hong Kong's Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, which has 60 hotels throughout China and around the world, says the global financial crisis has pushed it to now offer all guests free Internet services.

Taiwan-based consumer electronics, computing and communications devices provider BenQ has announced that Hong Hanqing, BenQ's general manager for the mainland China marketing headquarters and Taiwan, will now strictly focus on the Chinese mainland market, and the position of general manager of BenQ Taiwan will be concurrently held by BenQ's vice general manager for Asia Pacific, [...]

Chinese electronics maker Haier made revenue of CNY122 billion in global markets in 2008, a year-on-year increase of 8%.

Statistics provided by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that by the end of 2008, the number of China's wireless local phone users had decreased to 68.931 million.

Chinese software provider Kingsoft has confirmed its plan to split into three subsidiaries, and Qiu Bojun, chairman and CEO of Kingsoft Group, says the group will still stick to the unified brand of Kingsoft.

Leading Chinese venture capitalist Zhang Fan has called it quits from his position as founding managing partner at Sequoia Capital China.

China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation has appointed Zhou Jie as a non-executive director of the company and re-designated Wang Zheng Gang from non-executive director to alternate director to Zhou.

China Security & Surveillance Technology Inc. is shuffling its top management while also create a top strategy position.