Microsoft's Advanced Technology Centre in Beijing has produced the Fone+, a product that lets users connect their mobile phones to a TV, keyboard and mouse. The product is aimed at markets like China where PC penetration is low yet mobile phone ownership is high...    more »

Alibaba, the Chinese B2B trading site, hopes to raise at least $1bn through a stock market listing, probably in HK. Investors have short memories and many have forgotten the huge sums lost in the original B2B e-commerce boom of five or six years ago. Will things be better this time round?   more »

Dow Corning, the US maker of hi-tech materials, is looking to tap into the opportunities in China's fast-growing microelectronics market. Dow Corning opened its China Application Centre in Shanghai back in 2002 to strengthen customer collaborations in China....    more »

It makes a change to hear that a Chinese handset manufacturer is worried about piracy and has taken out patents on its latest model. Beijing-based Hi-Tech Wealth said it has received four patents covering the design of its unusual solar-powered mobile phone, which was unveiled to the west at the CeBIT trade fair in Hannover earlier this year...   more »

Regular EngagingChina readers will remember that US networking equipment maker 3Com last year took control of H3C, a China-based joint venture with China's Huawei. The deal gave 3Com 2,400 R&D workers in China and a huge cost advantage over its rivals, the company claims...   more »

Israeli chip company Metalink has been chosen by China's Hisense to supply super-fast WiFi chips to transmit high-definition TV signals around the home. Hisense is betting on HD-TV to stand above the cut-throat TV market and Metalink's technology could become a de facto standard for wireless sharing of HD-TV content, at least in China...   more »

One in nine of the world's online population lives in China and that figure is set to soar as China's internet penetration is just 9% while the average in the more developed countries of the Asia-Pacific region is between 50% and 60%. By 2011, China will also lead the world in the number of subscribers to internet protocol TV services...   more »

It took Microsoft over a decade and billions of dollars of lost revenue to learn how to do business in China. And it could it another decade before China takes its rightful place as Microsoft's biggest software market. However, Microsoft's China strategy seems to be paying off, at least if measured by the number of new customers it gets each year in China...   more »

In what seems a clear vote of confidence in China's hi-tech skills, US chip manufacturer Anadigics is to build a new gallium arsenide chip fab in Kunshan, Jiangsu province. The growth in wireless has pushed GaAs technology into the mainstream and its no accident that one of Anadigics latest customers is China's Huawei...   more »

Conventional thinking holds that Chinese intellectual property has little value to western technology firms. Think again. Israeli chip company Saifun Semiconductors has agreed to purchase IP and know-how from SMIC, the largest chip manufacturer in China...   more »