Digerati in China's capital city are set to welcome free wireless surfing beginning November 2011.

Chinese technology company Lenovo Group has signed an agreement with Zhongguancun Software Park to locate its new global headquarters park in the second phase project of the software park in Beijing.

Earlier this month, Chinese online video website Ku6.com announced it was downsizing staff by up to 20%. But now local media reports state those layoffs are not legal.

Microsoft China has announced the formal operation of its first authentic products experience store in China.

Zhongguancun Cloud Computing Industry Alliance has been set up as a measure for Beijing's construction of a world-class cloud computing industry base.

Supported by the government of Haidian district, Beijing, China's National Institute for Digital Copyright Research has recently opened in China Technology Exchange Mansion in the western area of Zhongguancun, Haidian district.

According to reports in local media, Chinese search engine company Baidu.com has started to relocate its employees from the current Potevio Plaza in Zhongguancun to its new office building, Baidu Plaza, in Shangdi, Beijing.

According to Beijing Times, Haidian district in Beijing offered CNY13.1 million as employment and social insurance subsidies to eight Chinese companies that have been hit by the global financial crisis.

Chinese mobile phone chain store D.Phone announced that the company has cooperated with Nokia (NOK) in opening a Nokia specialty store in Beijing.

Zhang Yuhang, vice director for the Application Promotion Department of the Municipal Informatization Office of Beijing, said during the Wireless City Summit 2008 held in Beijing that the capital city's wireless city construction will cover all of Beijing's urban and suburban areas before the end of 2011.

According to Beijing Radio Administration Bureau, two illegal base stations of Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Datang Corporation, have been closed for interfering with the Olympic radio frequency band.

Software giant Microsoft (MSFT) says it will invest US$280 million to building a research and development center in Beijing.

AMD has formally announced the establishment and operation of its branch in Chengdu.