Sybase, the US software house, has had one of its products awarded a security certification by the Chinese government. The news will allow Sybase to sell the product, called E-Secure Anywhere, to Chinese government agencies and public sector organisations...    more »

Canada's Medical International Technology hopes to get a head start on its rivals by setting up a JV in Taizhou, Jiangsu province. While it may not mean much to most westerners, Taizhou is being promoted as "China's medical city." ...    more »

Xilinx, the US chip maker, has unveiled a joint venture with the Beijing University of Technology and opened a research facility to give university students hands-on experience of its products, which are primarily used for designing embedded systems...    more »

More bad news from Lenovo, the HK-based PC maker, once seen as the poster-child for a new wave of Chinese multinationals. Its worldwide PC shipments dropped 8.2% in the first three months of this year, while the market as a whole only fell 7%...   more »

AT&T is bringing its telepresence solution to China to allow companies to connect to their customers, suppliers and partners worldwide using videoconferencing...    more »

Toshiba is to end cellphone production in Japan and to save costs, outsource some production to "overseas manufacturers", which in this industry invariably means no-name Chinese electronic manufacturing services (EMS) firms.    more »

Trimble, the Nasdaq-listed specialist in location-based services, hopes to get a foothold in China's nascent satellite navigation market through a joint venture with the China Aerospace Science & Industry Academy of Information Technology...   more »

China's online games market raked in 2.8bn in 2008, up 63% on the previous year according to Pearl Research, a US-based research house. Online games are one of the most popular pastimes for Chinese internet users and the industry has grown to have several sizable players...    more »

IBM is setting up a cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong, in a move which signals just how quickly China is evolving into a mainstream IT market. It will support IBM's emerging LotusLive cloud service portfolio....    more »

China's chip industry is now facing its biggest hurdle yet as the global downturn hits sales of low-margin electronics goods, which is the area where Chinese chip makers have made most inroads..    more »