BEIJING (AP) — China’s sole aircraft carrier has returned home following a far-ranging three-week training mission during which its combat capabilities were closely scrutinized and speculation soared over what future role the flat-top will play…
TECHNOLOGY
China’s embrace of a new electricity-transmission technology holds lessons for others
YOU cannot negotiate with nature. From the offshore wind farms of the North Sea to the solar panels glittering in the Atacama desert, renewable energy is often generated in places far from the cities and…
China Mobile, Ericsson Team Up on IoT
China Mobile has signed a strategic agreement with Ericsson to cooperate on the Internet of Things(IoT). China Mobile aims to serve 200 million IoT connections this year as part of its ‘Big Connectivity’ strategy. Both…
China’s cosmetics and consumer trends in 2017 part II: A new technological era
“The development and adoption of VR in China have been rapid and world leading. But the full range of potential applications of this technology is only just beginning to emerge. We are likely to be…
Beijing Takes Pivotal Technology Lead in South China Sea
China has taken a wide technological lead to help bolster its control over much of Asia’s most contested tract of sea, an advantage that analysts say will help keep less equipped countries away from Beijing’s…
China's anti-Teslas: cheap models drive electric car boom
China has spent billions of dollars on subsidies to help companies including Warren Buffett-backed BYD and BAIC Motor achieve large-scale production of plug-in vehicles, which are gaining traction among urban drivers as well as taxi…
China Mobile Picks Nuage Networks SDN for Public Cloud
However, AWS is not built on OpenStack, while China Mobile’s public cloud is. Outside the United States, OpenStack is more popular as a public cloud platform, according to recent findings from Forrester Research. Ferland says…
China Mobile selects Nuage Networks’ SDN for huge public cloud deployment
Nuage Networks has signed a massive deal with China Mobile to automate its huge public cloud deployments in Beijing and Guangzhou. China Mobile and Nuage Networks are partnering on a new massive public cloud deployment…
Ericsson and China Mobile collaborate on Cloud RAN
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI), the research division of China Mobile, to initiate the collaborative research and development of Cloud RAN. China Mobile, the…
China’s Banking Giants Try to Snatch Share of Mobile Payments
BEIJING—China’s financial giants are lumbering into the country’s increasingly important mobile-payments market, hoping to shake the domination of nimble tech firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. affiliate Ant Financial and Tencent Holdings Ltd ……
China's R&D spending estimated to reach 2.1 pct of GDP in 2016
BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — China’s investment in research and development (R&D) is expected to reach 1.54 trillion yuan (around 223 billion U.S. dollars) in 2016, accounting for 2.1 percent of GDP, according to Science…
China Poised to Dominate Fintech and Blockchain Markets in 2017
But interest has been escalating, partly fuelled by the second Global Blockchain Summit held in September 2016 in Shanghai and China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has also organised a special government-industry working group…
Why China is still saying no to Pokémon Go
January 10, 2017 China—Despite vast enthusiasm and anticipation, Chinese smartphone users are unlikely to meet “Pokémon Go” any time soon. China’s state censor said Tuesday Nintendo’s hit smartphone app and other augmented reality games carry…
