Initiated by China Telecom, the operator of the CDMA2000 network in China, China's "CDMA2000 Mobile Phone Design and Development Industry Alliance" has been founded in Beijing with over 100 members, including mobile phone chip platform providers, mobile phone design companies, and brand manufacturers with independent development abilities.

Microsoft has made a statement regarding the Canadian micro-blogging service provider Plurk's accusation, which stated the Juku beta application launched by Microsoft's MSN China joint venture has copied code.

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Microsoft has set up 100 Windows 7 consulting sites in Taiwan to help local users better understand this new operating system and to provide related technology consulting services.

Chinese Internet security provider Kingsoft has published a report on China's computer virus and Internet security situation in October 2009, stating that 3,031,921 new viruses were detected in mainland China during the month and 20,812,698 computers were affected by these viruses.

Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court has announced that Microsoft was found guilty of infringing the intellectual property rights of Zhongyi Electronic Limited in China.

Microsoft has signed a cooperation memorandum with Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs to set up a cloud computing technology research center in Taiwan over the next 12 months.

Taiwan-based PC maker Asus has announced that the company made net profit of NTD6.497 billion, which equals CNY1.37 billion, in the third quarter of 2009, higher than its expectation of NTD2.97 billion.

Simon Leung, chairman and CEO for Microsoft Greater China, has recently revealed the company's anti-piracy policies for its newly launched Windows 7 operating system and he said that pirated software users will receive notifications, instead of the black screens as previously feared.

Microsoft and over 90 mobile communication partners have jointly announced at a conference held in Beijing that the first batch of 17 types of Windows phones will be launched in China at the end of 2009.

Microsoft China announced that the customer service and technology support for Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system is fully prepared and the system is expected to be launched worldwide on October 22, 2009.

Hong Kong Science Park will soon be home to new research into cloud computing technology.

Google China has announced that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, global vice president of Google and president for Google China, has resigned and will depart from the search engine company in the middle of September 2009.

Microsoft China and China Financial Certification Authority have jointly announced that several Chinese banks, including China Construction Bank; Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; China Merchants Bank; and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank have achieved the seamless compatibility of their online banking systems with the Windows 7 operating system.

During China Telecom's recent meeting for the placement of 3G handset orders, Xiao Chaojun, vice president of Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment, positioned the company's product lines into three tiers, with the aim of becoming one of the top five handset makers in the world within three years.

Hong Lei, webmaster of Tomatolei.com and maker of the pirated edition of Windows XP in China, has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail in addition to a fine of CNY1 million.