Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group has unveiled its first smartphone product named Lephone, along with a new laptop brand Skylight, during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Chinese online game and instant messaging company Tencent has published its unaudited financial report for the third quarter of 2009.

According to Anti-Phishing Alliance of China, as of August 31, 2009, APAC had dealt with up to 6330 online phishing websites in recent months.

Chinese Internet company Tencent has launched a web-based version of its instant messaging product QQ, which allows its users to use the service without any installation of software.

Starting from November 2009, users of China Unicom and China Telecom will be able to apply and use China Mobile's Fetion instant messaging service.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Telecom has announced that it will formally close its C to G dual-mode card service, which allows China Telecom's CDMA network users to roam to China Unicom's GSM network, from August 1, 2009.

The Second Intermediate People Court of Beijing has accepted a lawsuit filed by Beijing Sogou Information Service Company and Beijing Sogou Technology Development Company, two affiliates of Sogou, against Tencent and Aldsoft over unfair competition.

Alisoft, the software subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that its instant messaging platform, Ali Wangwang, will formally enter China's Internet advertising market.

China Unicom Jiangsu branch has published a notice stating that it will close the free trial of its instant messaging service from July 1, 2009.

Tencent's online payment tool Tenpay has announced a cooperation with Chinese Internet travel company Ctrip.com.

The Jet Li One Foundation has jointly launched an online donation platform with Tencent to help Internet users in China make monetary contributions.

To set up a long-term effective system for the management of Internet information, China's Hubei province now plans to promote the real-name system for users wishing to create websites and blogs.

In response to the rumor that the Chinese lifestyle information website Aibang.com has been acquired by the Chinese instant messaging and online game operator Tencent, Liu Jianguo, CEO of Aibang.com, said the rumor is not true.

Hong Kong-listed Chinese instant messaging and mobile firm Tencent Holdings Limited worries that online advertising will take a hit as advertisers decrease their budgets in the worsening economic environment.

China Telecom will reportedly cooperate with Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger to jointly develop new instant messaging software named eSurfing Live.