According to an insider from the Chinese software provider Kingsoft, because the company will move its Beijing office to the new office building at Shangdi, Haidian District, in March 2009, a few employees have already handed in their resignation letters.

Chinese software provider Kingsoft has confirmed its plan to split into three subsidiaries, and Qiu Bojun, chairman and CEO of Kingsoft Group, says the group will still stick to the unified brand of Kingsoft.

Asus will formally launch its Android handsets in Taiwan in 2009.

By ChinaTechNews.com Editorial Team
The uproar this week over Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com's (BIDU) pharmaceutical paid search listings and advertisements gives further reason to believe that stock analysts should drop the "yst" from their monikers and Baidu's management should be hung out to dry.

The international telecommunications equipment manufacturer Nokia Siemens Networks has confirmed that David Ho, chairman for Nokia Siemens Networks Greater China, formally departed from his position on October 31, 2008.

Microsoft MSN has reached a strategic cooperative instant messaging agreement with Kingsoft Duba to jointly provide free security products to the users of Windows Live Messenger.

Commenting on the desktop anti-piracy measure recently launched by Microsoft (MSFT) in China, Kingsoft says that although they too are harmed by pirated software, China-based Kingsoft will not copy Microsoft's mode and promises to continue to offer free WPS Office software to individual users.

The Beijing government has launched an enhanced Internet cafe monitoring rule which states that people who visit Internet cafes for the first time need to have their picture taken and have their identification cards scanned.

Shenzhen Intellectual Property Office has recently drafted the "Regulations on Protection of the Internet Software Intellectual Property Rights of Shenzhen" to fight the software infringements.

Taiwan's ASUSTek Computer has announced a recall of its Eee Box PCs that were sold in Japan because they contain a virus.

The Chinese anti-virus firm Rising has formally announced its Cloud Security 2.0 version, focusing on blocking trojan viruses from the Internet.

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.

After a four-month beta test of five different versions, Qihoo has recently launched the formal version of its browser product 360se1.2.

Chinese online auction and e-commerce website Taobao.com has recently announced its latest consumer protection plan, which includes blocking the search engines of Baidu, Google and Yahoo.

Qihoo 360 has announced that its pop-up blocker, which can automatically close pop-up windows of desktop software, is undergoing a small beta test.