With Google's prospects in China greatly diminished, search engine rival Baidu has seized the opportunity to push its online supremacy higher with the unveiling of an enhanced translation tool.

China Construction Bank and Microsoft China have signed a strategic cooperation memorandum and the two parties will jointly establish a new generation of online banking based on Microsoft's technology platform to improve the security and convenience of online banking applications.

China Internet Network Information Center has officially submitted the pure Chinese top-level domain "dotZhongguo" to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers for international approval.

Sogou.com, the search engine subsidiary of the Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com, has announced that it has launched one of the world's first input methods based on cloud computing technology.

A representative from Sohu.com (SOHU) has confirmed that the Chinese Internet company plans to launch its own Internet browser product, but the detailed schedule for making it available to users has not been released.

China Mobile (CHL) has reached an agreement with Microsoft (MSFT) to pre-install Microsoft's Windows Mobile Internet Explore 6 browser in the Samsung Omnia handsets sold by China Mobile.

Kingsoft has announced that a new 1.8 version of its Google (GOOG) Kingsoft Ciba, dictionary software jointly developed with Google, has been launched.

Zhejiang Alipay Internet Technology, the online payment subsidiary of e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group, has announced that its payment website will support Mozilla's Firefox browser, making Alipay one of the first Chinese online payment platforms to fully support non-Microsoft browsers.

Mozilla has announced plans to cooperate with Chinese Web portal Sohu.com (SOHU) to launch a new Olympics-related special version of the Firefox browser.