Huawei and China Unicom have entered into a joint innovation agreement to collaborate on 5G network slicing. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will work together to research and demonstrate the application of…
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Mobile payment increasingly popular in rural China
Mobile payment has become more popular in China’s rural areas. [huitu.com] Mobile payment has become more popular in China’s rural areas as internet technology has made transactions faster and more convenient in remote places where…
Xi Tightens His Grip, and China’s Tech Giants Feel the Squeeze
BEIJING — For the past decade or so, China has defied the truism that only free and open societies can innovate. Even as the Communist Party has kept an iron grip on politics and discourse,…
Pitch Behind T-Mobile-Sprint Merger: Keep Up With China in 5G
By joining forces, the two mobile carriers said, they would help ensure that American companies remain world leaders in the coming era of fifth-generation wireless technology, or 5G. The implication: Failure to keep up in…
T-Mobile, Sprint say $26 bln deal would give U.S. tech lead over China
(Reuters) – T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp said on Sunday they had agreed to a $26 billion all-stock deal and believed they could win over skeptical regulators because the merger would create thousands of…
Behind T-Mobile-Sprint Merger, a Race to Keep Up With China in 5G
That means carriers in the United States and China may be racing to build infrastructure more quickly than the technology that would make best use of it is developing. At a recent Huawei summit meeting…
China is monitoring employees’ brain waves and emotions — and the technology boosted one company’s profits by $315 million
Chinese businesses and the military are monitoring employees’ brain activity and emotions. The “emotional surveillance technology” helps employers identify mood shifts so they can change break times, an employee’s task, or even send them home.…
T-Mobile, Sprint say $26 billion deal would give U.S. tech lead over China
(Reuters) – T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) and Sprint Corp (S.N) said on Sunday they had agreed to a $26 billion all-stock deal and believed they could win over skeptical regulators because the merger would create…
China Mobile: The Value Stock Paying 6% Dividends No One Wants To Buy
What is China Mobile? China Mobile is the largest phone carrier in China. It is state-backed, like the other major Chinese telcos, China Unicom and China Telecom. As a result, China Mobile is intimately intertwined…
Senator Warner: US tech companies ‘prostituted themselves’ to access China
China’s biggest tech companies have reason to be worried Warner … “The US government is still trying to understand 2016 technology,” said Warner, adding that bad actors will likely be using new tools to meddle…
This Chinese weapons lab is putting missile technology into airport body scanners
“Using aerospace technology in security is like using the missile eyes to scan,” Zhao Yinghai, head of the AI lab at CASIC’s No 35 research institute was quoted as saying by China Youth Daily, a…
China Mobile’s 5G Trials Test Vendor Equipment Interoperability
China Mobile is in the midst of expanding its 5G trials in five cities this year —Hangzhou, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Suzhou, and Wuhan. The operator initially started the trials last year with only a handful of…
In remote China, a high-tech auto plant flags global challenge
A three-hour drive from the Chinese capital Beijing, the Lynk & Co plant in Zhangjiakou combines technology and manufacturing know-how from the Geely and Volvo Cars units of China auto giant Zhejiang Geely Holding Group…
