Canonical, developer of the open source operating system Ubuntu, has announced that Dell will sell PCs with the pre-installed Ubuntu operating system in its over 100 new retail stores in China.

Microsoft China has signed a cooperation agreement with China Standard Software Company Ltd, a Chinese Linux operating system provider, for the two parties to jointly develop, promote, and sell cloud computing solutions.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China.

Linux Foundation has announced that the Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has recently become a formal member and the company is Linux Foundation's first Chinese enterprise-level member.

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.

China Mobile has inked deals with ten Chinese and overseas mobile phone manufacturers to develop Ophone, a mobile phone product based on China Mobile's Open Mobile System.

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The Taiwanese GPS and communications products developer and manufacturer Garmin Corporation has joined the Google-dominated (GOOG) Open Handset Alliance.

Tencent's Linux version of its instant messaging software QQ has entered a testing stage and it will be formally launched in July 2008.

Microsoft (MSFT) and Novell (NOVL) have announced an incremental investment in their relationship focused on converting unsupported Linux users to supported SUSE Linux Enterprise, with a particular emphasis on the Chinese market.

Philips' NXP Semiconductors STB222 set-top box solution has been selected by Changhong to deliver AVS-compliant IP STB platform to manufacturers and Pay TV operators in Asia.