China's Huawei Technologies has just received the highest software quality certification for its Indian R&D centre. But China's growing technological prowess is fueling protectionist talk in some quarters in India...   more »

In the 1990s, pundits predicted that the mainframe computer had had its day. Against all the odds, the mainframe is still going strong and has learnt some new tricks -- like running China's internet...   more »

Spanish internet security company Panda Security has signed a deal with China's Treasureware to market its products in China. It has also taken a 51% stake in the company for an undisclosed amount...   more »

China's telecoms equipment industry gets more innovative each day. But there are still areas where western technology triumphs. How else do we explain Ericsson getting three contracts for fixed broadband access?    more »

China has shelved its controversial plan to install internet filtering software on every PC. A victory for internet freedom? More likely, the government realised the deadline was unrealistic and the technology unlikely to be effective..    more »

China's nascent IT outsourcing industry appears to be weathering the downturn well, although there could be storm clouds ahead. China's software exports grew 22% in the first five months of 2009 to reach $2.5bn...    more »

Damned if they do, damned if they do not. The Chinese government's zeal to protect its citizens from internet pornography and other "unsuitable" content is creating major headaches for western IT companies...   more »

Strange bedfellows. Haier, the Chinese maker of air conditioners and other appliances, has teamed up with NComputing, a US company specialised in desktop virtualisation software and hardware...   more »

Pakistan is to import explosive detection equipment from China, in a move that shows that it is not just US businesses that are getting the lucrative commercial opportunities generated by the hi-tech War on Terror...   more »

China's plan to install internet filtering software on PCs has attracted a huge amount of attention. Now it appears, the software may not even be Made in China but a ripoff of a western commercial product...   more »