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China to Release Content Identification Standards

China News, 8/19/08

As part of a move to combat online piracy and protect intellectual property rights, the Chinese Ministry of Culture has announced on its website that China will promulgate a national standard for identification codes to be used in online content such as music, video and text. Read More...

Police Detain Developer of Modified Windows XP

Sina Tech, 8/20/08

Hong Lei, webmaster of tomatolei.com and author of Tomato Garden, a highly-popular, visually-enhanced pirated version of Windows XP, has been under police detention since August 15. Read More...

Operators Announce July 2008 Subscriber Totals

Marbridge Consulting, 8/20/08

China's four main telecom operators have announced their subscriber totals for July 2008. Read More...

Rumor: SARFT CMMB Handsets Fail to Get Network Access Permit

Guangzhou Daily, 8/20/08

A source with a handset manufacturer is claiming that 40,000 TD-SCDMA/CMMB handsets procured by China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) along with 1,000 CMMB handsets intended for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, were denied a network access permits by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), despite passing network access tests performed by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). Read More...

ZTE Wins 50% of CDMA Business Service Contracts

China Business News, 8/20/08

Equipment manufacturers yesterday revealed the results of China Telecom's (NYSE: CHA; 0728.HK) first round of bidding on CDMA contracts. Read More...

China Mobile Olympic WAP Channel Records 8 mln Visits

Tencent Tech, 8/20/08

According to China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK), from August 1 to August 19, the company's "Handheld Olympics" service has attracted more than 8 mln visitors, and 300 mln page views. Read More...