China Telecom plans to establish a product center and will set up six content bases in five cities in China to develop a wider array of 3G software applications.

Chinese online search engine Baidu.com went down today in an episode some users suspect has to do with Iranian Internet hackers.

Wipro Technologies has just opened its global delivery center in Chengdu to provide business process outsourcing services to its customers in China and around the world.

Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry has announced plans to invest at least USD1 billion to build a new plant in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.

China Mobile Sichuan and China Post have launched their first joint business hall in Li County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.

While China Mobile and China Telecom are promoting their own respective mobile phone applications online stores, China Unicom has also announced plans to set up a similar online store, targeting WCDMA handsets.

According to Bao Zhigang, general manager for UFIDA Software Sichuan branch, the company plans to enhance investment in Sichuan to build a military industry solutions research and development center in Chengdu.

China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre has reported that six Internet access providers were giving users access to websites that contained pornographic and vulgar content.

A development platform named xFace, which is jointly built by the China Telecom Sichuan branch and a Chengdu local technology corporation, has been launched.

The Chinese wireless value-added services sector has been blown back with news that China Mobile will formally implement centralized management of its wireless music content from January 1, 2010, and all of its color ring back tone content will be introduced from its music base in Sichuan province.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has announced plans to invest CNY20 million in Guangxi in the next three years to realize TD-SCDMA network coverage in all prefecture-level cities in the region.

The Jet Li One Foundation has jointly launched an online donation platform with Tencent to help Internet users in China make monetary contributions.

China Mobile Zhejiang branch has announced plans to cooperate with Zhejiang Alipay Internet Technology, the online payment subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce company Alibaba Group, to provide an additional payment channel for the customers of its online store.

Sichuan-based electronics manufacturer Changhong has announced plans to invest CNY150 million to establish an Internet content platform named Lejiao Web.

One of the largest instant noodle companies in China, Sichuan Baijia Food Company, has announced plans to enter China's online direct sales sector at the end of March 2009.