Category Archives: Mobile phone and wireless

Nokia embroiled in “Typo-gate”

Posted on 2007-06-19 by Joel Martinsen

Nokia phones are targeted by a consumer who says they distort Chinese characters. Malice? Or just a trade-off for a poor-resolution, 399-yuan phone?

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Official media on popular opinion in the Xiamen PX affair

Posted on 2007-06-18 by Joel Martinsen

China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊) weighs in on the use of SMS and online media in the Xiamen PX case.

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Xiamen demonstration today – live reporting on blogs and video sites

Posted on 2007-06-01 by Jeremy Goldkorn

PX demonstrations in Xiamen today Haicang PX is the name of a chemical factory plant currently being built in Xiamen in Fujian Province. Approved by the central government, Haicang PX is being developed with an investment of 10 billion yuan. … Continue reading →

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Net scandal: student hits teacher video

Posted on 2007-05-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Screen shot from a mobile phone video From Roland Soong: At 4pm on May 25, a video was posted on the Internet. In this video, there were more than 20 students in a classroom for a geography lesson. The students … Continue reading →

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Video sharing sites going down the Youtube?

Posted on 2007-04-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A recent article by Reuters journalist Sophie Taylor looks at China’s video-sharing websites and concludes that their prospects are not good: Investors leaving China’s video-sharing sites …Investors, spurred on by the Google-YouTube deal, have made big bets on China, the … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: mobile web and marketing with Naviblog

Posted on 2007-02-25 by Robert Ness

Mobile marketing firm Naviblog With about 140 million PC Internet users and 450 million mobile subscribers, people are questioning whether or not the mobile device will surpass the PC as the primary means for accessing the Web in China. Naviblog … Continue reading →

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Mobile phone advertising: will datamatrix codes work?

Posted on 2007-02-05 by Robert Ness

Print media that you’re not meant to read. In a recent talk with Johan Vakidis, creative director at OgilvyOne Shanghai, I learned that Ogilvy is preparing to incorporate datamatrix (dm) codes in their advertising campaigns in China. Put simply, these … Continue reading →

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Wang Shuo spars with a reporter

Posted on 2007-01-16 by Joel Martinsen

Zhang Yiyi (张一一) accuses Wang Shuo (王朔) of long-term drug use, leading a Mirror reporter to spar with Wang over SMS.

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Is China Mobile dangling the ultimate cookie in Beijing’s face?

Posted on 2007-01-03 by Dror Poleg

China Mobile might be on its way home.

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China Businesscast: Mobile Marketing

Posted on 2006-12-22 by Robert Ness

Continuing China Businesscast’s series on the mobile space in China, David Turchetti is founder and CEO of 21 Communications, a service provider that designs and carries out mobile marketing campaigns for consumer brands in China. Mobile marketing in China had … Continue reading →

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