Alibaba ready to ride Internet's 'third wave'
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One of Jack Ma's companies has 27 million registered users, but the Alibaba.com chief executive officer can only think of the people not using his site.
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BEIJING, Dec. 27 -- With the launch of the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet in China, the country is expected to dramatically narrow its gap with the world&#39;s leaders, officials and experts said.
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By RACHEL KONRAD SAN FRANCISCO - EBay Inc. is expected to announce plans Tuesday to open a new Chinese Web site as part of a joint-venture with a Beijing-based Internet company, signaling a strategic shift in the online auction company's Chinese operations.
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China will take a new step Thursday to tighten control of the Internet when rules go into force limiting online video-sharing to state companies
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China will take a new step Thursday to tighten control of the Internet when rules go into force limiting online video-sharing to state companies. But regulators, wary of hurting a fast-growing industry, are expected to let private operators work around the restrictions.
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SHANGHAI, China  -- China's second-largest mobile phone company plans to open 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of the year, exerting stronger state control over a sector once dominated by private enterprise, state-run radio reported Tuesday.    China Unicom already operates 400 Internet cafes in China and plans to start up as many as 200 more by year's end, China Radio International reported...
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(InfoWorld) - Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com has signed a deal with China Post, the country's postal service, intended to smooth the online shopping experience for Chinese consumers, the company said Wednesday. Under terms of the deal, Alibaba will offer consumers the option to ship goods purchased online through a service called e-Youbao, which will be operated by China Post, the e-commerce company said. That service is currently being tested, it said. Besides delivering mail and packages, China Post's Postal Savings Bank is the country's fifth-largest bank. Alibaba users will be able to deposit money into their AliPay online payment account at any of China's 66,000 post offices and China Post's Green Card debit service will become an AliPay partner. Alibaba hopes the deal with China Post will woo consumers wary of shopping online. The company estimated that 24 percent of China's 123 million Internet users -- about 30 million people -- shop unline. Getting more users to shop on the Internet would be a boost for Alibaba, which operates the country's biggest online auction site, Taobao.
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Japanese electronics giant NEC Corporation said Monday it is seeking to build third-generation (3G) mobile phone infrastructure in China in a bid to gain a foothold in the world&#39;s biggest mobile phone market.
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(InfoWorld) - Mary Chan, president of the wireless business group atÂ newly merged Alcatel-Lucent, isn't choosing sides in the prickly debate about next-generation mobile communication networks. "One thing is certain," Chan said in an interview at last week's Telecom World conference in Hong Kong. "With the next generation, we're going to see all-IP networks capable of providing voice-over-IP and high-speed data throughput." Alcatel-Lucent has a foot in both the cellular and wireless camps -- and sees opportunities for both. The company aims to be at the forefront of this convergence by offering IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) technology as "a fundamental architecture for service transformation," Chan said. The buzzword in the cellular community is LTE (Long-Term Evolution), which, as its name suggests, builds on existing cellular technology. The wireless camp supports a mobile version of WiMax, based on the IEEE 802.16e standard. Both technologies will be based on OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and offer speeds up to 100Mbps. What could differentiate the two systems at the end of the day is not so much the technology as the type operator that favors the one or the other, according to Chan. Cellular operators view LTE as an evolution of their 3G (third-generation) mobile broadband systems and, as such, are likely to deploy the technology where they have existing infrastructure. Some may choose to use mobile WiMax to plug the holes. New Internet operators, including some of the existing Wi-Fi service providers, are expected to deploy mobile WiMax. Regardless of the radio technology, "ubiquitous coverage will be a key success factor," Chan said. That remark can be interpreted as a word of warning to numerous mobile phone operators that have pared down their 3G (third generation) rollout to save on costs and have seen Wi-Fi operators both big and small pick away at their mobile data business.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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The Internet's biggest players are preparing for all-out war, adding new weapons to their arsenals in hopes that they can offer the best full suite of digital services to future Net users. -washingtonpost.com
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Any day now China will have more web users than the US, but the net has been tamed by Beijing's iron grip
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Beijing decides that 113,000 internet cafes are enough -- at least until it figures out what this internet freedom stuff is all about. By the Associated Press.
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The China-specific online video gaming host is set to become a multigame operation.
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Japanese Internet firm Softbank said it aims to enter the mobile phone industry supplying third-generation (3G) services as more customers embrace the advanced technology.
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By Duncan Martell MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.  - Wireless services will lead the next growth phase of the Internet as venture capitalists who helped fund the early boom open their wallets again, industry leaders said Monday.
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The company responsible for introducing millions of people to the Internet is poised to undergo a transformation that would likely accelerate its decline as a gatekeeper of access to the information superhighway.
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Before Boeing Co.'s new 787 jetliner gets the green light to fly passengers, the aircraft maker will have to prove that offering Internet access in the cabin won't leave the flight controls vulnerable to hackers and hijackers.