It may sound like an illness in China, but Microsoft is aiming at Chinese mobile phone users with a new deal to include its Bing.com search engine on Motorola Android phones sold in the country.

According to China's Vsens, the wholly-owned customized terminal subsidiary of China Unicom, its new customized 3G smartphone, XT701, made by Motorola, is now ready for sale.

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.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has announced that its first flagship store under its 3G brand "Wo" has been opened in Beijing.

Motorola has announced plans to open an Android applications store, Shop4Apps, in China to further meet the demands of Chinese consumers.

According to reports in local media, Google has unilaterally canceled development of its gPhone with China Unicom and two other handsets manufacturers in China, marking another major adjustment following the announcement of its possible withdrawal from China's search engine market.

Lu Jiansheng, vice president of Sony Ericsson Group and director of Sony Ericsson China, has confirmed that he has departed from the positions.

United States WiMax network operator Clearwire has announced that it has selected the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies as its WiMAX network infrastructure provider.

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.

Starting tomorrow and lasting for three days, GoIndustry DoveBid will be hosting an inaugural online auction for Motorola in China to rid the company of a large quantity of mobile telecom test equipment used by Motorola in its Hangzhou facility.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced at a press conference last week that in the first quarter of 2008, the three major Chinese telecommunications operators, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, invested a total amount of CNY120 billion in 3G development, achieving obvious effect on the promotion of relevant industries.

The global financial crisis has reared its head at Motorola, and the company has cut about 1000 staff in China in the last couple of months.

According to local Chinese media reports, the upper management of China's leading telecommunications operator China Mobile will soon go to Finland to promote Nokia's research and production of TD-SCDMA mobile phones.

According to an insider quoted by local Chinese media, the result for China Unicom's WCDMA tender has been revealed, though the detailed statistics are currently not available.

According to an insider from China Unicom, the company has required its branches in major Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, to finish construction of WCDMA networks before April 17, 2009, and then to start a one-month internal operation and system test to make preparations for the official launch of the commercial use of [...]