The world's leading mobile telecommunications company Vodafone has signed a strategic cooperation agreement the Taiwanese telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom to provide a series of services to its users in Taiwan.

Beijing-based Anchiva is integrating Commtouch GlobalView URL filtering into its Secure Web Gateway product.

In reference to the recent news that Telstra's CEO Sol Trujillo will depart the company, the Australian communications company says the CEO departure will not affect its strategy in China.

Seek, Australia's leading recruitment website and the major shareholder of China's Zhaopin.com, has published its first semi-annual financial report in 2009, which states Chinese job website Zhaopin.com made a CNY170 million loss in 2008.

Australia-based Telstra is hoping that it does not repeat the multiple mistakes of other companies venturing into China's overcrowded wireless value-added services market with new investments in two Chinese companies.

Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group has felt the sting of the global financial crisis as it today announced pitiful computer sales for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2008.

While the world economy is heading to the toilet and Chinese manufacturers are preparing to feel the pinch because their overseas buyers will have no cash, Alibaba.com is hoping a new round of international advertising will maintain its growth with helping connect Chinese suppliers with foreign customers.

China's third-party Internet payment platform Alipay has announced that by the end of August 2008, the number of its users has reached over 100 million, making it the second largest payment platform after American-based Paypal, which has over 180 million users in the world.

YouTube.com, a video website owned by Google, has formally launched its Simplified Chinese interface, marking the key step for Google's indirect entry into China's video sector.

According to China Unicom (CHU), the company finished its upgrade from GSM to GPRS in the 31 cities and provinces across China by the end of June 2008 and all of its pre-paid and post-paid users are now able to enjoy the GPRS services.

Lenovo (LNVGY) can't wait to cash-in on its Olympics sponsorship and has announced the final Internet charity auction of limited-edition notebook PCs inspired by the Lenovo-designed Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch to benefit organizations in China.

CDC Corporations's (CHINA) subsidiary CDC Software says it will acquire Dynamic Business Consultants, and Australian systems integrator, for an undisclosed sum.

Right before the World Intellectual Property Rights Day on April 26, 2008, the Shenzhen Procuratorial Department published details of a software piracy case jointly uncovered by police from China and the United States.

Oracle (ORCL), one of the world's largest enterprise software suppliers, has moved its Chengdu branch to Chengdu High-tech Zone where it has also unveiled its Oracle China Consulting Service Center and Chengdu Solution Center.