OSDL hires lawyer, opens China office
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Open Source Development Labs, a Beaverton, Ore.-based consortium devoted to improving Linux, has hired an attorney to handle intellectual-property matters and has opened a branch office in Beijing, the group said this week.
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Facing foreign competition in 2007, China's banks are expanding loan options.
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(InfoWorld) - A former Chinese national is facing U.S. federal charges of stealing trade secrets from a Silicon Valley company and selling them to foreign governments. The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco Thursday filed a 36-count indictment in U.S. District Court for Northern California against Xiaodong Sheldon Meng accusing him of stealing military application trade secrets from Quantum3D, of San Jose, California, and using them to try to sell the technology to the People's Republic of China, the Malaysian Air Force, and the Thailand Air Force. Quantum3D designs high-end graphics computers that run visual simulation training software for military applications such as flight simulators. Meng, a one-time employee of Quantum3D, stole the trade secrets with the intent that they would be used to benefit those foreign governments, according to the U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan. The technology is covered by the U.S. Economic Espionage Act of 1996, which prohibits its sale abroad without an export license. Quantum3D has cooperated fully in the government's investigation, the U.S. attorney said in a statement. Meng, 42, was released on a $500,000 bond and is scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate in San Jose on Monday. The indictment follows a two-year investigation of the case involving the U.S. Attorneyâs Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security.
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A legal battle is shaping up in California involving a Chinese startup that makes equipment used to produce semiconductors.
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The retrial of a blind Chinese legal expert got under way on Monday after an appeals court overturned his controversial conviction for damaging property, but one of his lawyers stormed out of the courtroom and another was briefly detained.
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The China-specific online video gaming host is set to become a multigame operation.
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Global investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston, or CSFB, has announced the appointment of former Merrill Lynch banker Zhang Liping as its country head for China.
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A leading Chinese academic has been appointed the World Bank's first Chief Economist from a developing country.
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Analysis Lawyer calls for urgent domain dispute reform
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China's banking industry officially opens to full foreign competition on Monday, a landmark for the country's financial sector and a day of reckoning for the country's mostly state-owned banks.
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InfoWorld - In what may be the first action of its kind in the U.S., the Software Freedom Law Center has filed a lawsuit to enforce an open-source license.
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BEIJING -- China enacted a law yesterday meant to improve workers' rights after the communist government took the unprecedented step of seeking input from foreign companies and the Chinese public.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft is enlisting Linux distributor TurboLinux to help tailor work being done to translate documents between Open XML and ODF file formats for Japanese and Chinese users.
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The television unit of Japan's Sony Corp and a division of China Film Group on Wednesday unveiled a joint venture to make Chinese language TV shows under a new Chinese law that allows such co-ventures.
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The London Stock Exchange opens an office in Beijing, as it aims to attract listings by Chinese companies.
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TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited (TCL Communication), one of the leading mobile handset manufacturers in the Chinese mainland made its debut on HKEX (Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearings Limited) Monday.
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China has honored some of its WTO commitments ahead of schedule. The revised Foreign Trade Law took effect as of July 1, which opened the foreign trade rights a half year earlier than expected.