Chinese technology giant Lenovo Group held a launch ceremony in Beijing to announce a new cloud computing strategy, a new smartphone, a tablet computer, a new personal computer, and TV products.

The U.S.-based mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. will invest nearly USD1 billion to build a new display panel plant in Taiwan in 2011.

ZTE Corporation announced that it has signed purchase agreements with five U.S. technology vendors at total value of USD3 billion.

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.

Taiwan-headquartered fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. and the U.S. wireless communication technology developer Qualcomm have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement.

U.S.-based Qualcomm (QCOM) has granted China's LT Mobile Communication a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units implementing the CDMA2000 standard.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Telecom (CHA) is considering acquiring the Taiwan-based wireless communications and digital media solutions provider MediaTek.

According to information from the Open Handset Alliance, China's telecommunications manufacturer Huawei and 13 other companies, including Vodafone, Toshiba and Sony Ericsson, have jointed the alliance to lend support to the Android open source platform-based Google phone.

Datang Telecom intends to acquire a 35% stake of UniScope Technologies for CNY155 million and the acquisition plan will be submitted to the general meeting of Datang's shareholders for approval.

After the price for acquiring China Unicom's (CHU) CDMA network was published, China Telecom's (CHA) introduction of strategic investors has become a focus of the market.

Though it has not reached a final agreement with China Unicom (CHU) on the price of acquiring the latter's CDMA network, China Telecom (CHA) has already begun to make arrangements for the operation of the network.