Monthly Archives For December 2016

112.3 million smartphones shipped in China

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The growth in shipments was mainly because China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom continued to subsidise purchases of smartphones, mostly inexpensive models, to encourage the shift of 2G and 3G subscribers to 4G, Digitimes…

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China invents the digital totalitarian state

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Earlier this year, for instance, the party asked China Electronics Technology Group, one of the country’s largest defence contractors, to develop software to predict terrorist risks on the basis of people’s job records, financial background…

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China, South Africa to match mine wits

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CUMT president professor Shirong Ge said China had achieved a leading global position in geospatial technology “after decades of development” with the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. “Universities like ours have the responsibility to introduce ……

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