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A deal between two outsourcing companies, Zensar Technologies Ltd., of Pune, India, and BroadenGate Systems Inc., of Shenzhen, China, will help both companies better compete for IT outsourcing business from U.S. companies, a senior company executive said.

China Mobile Communications Corp., China's largest mobile operator, is getting tough with companies that violate the agreements that let them provide mobile messaging services to China Mobile's subscribers.

Sohu.com Inc., one of China's most popular Internet portals, has been banned from sending Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS ) messages to subscribers of China's largest mobile operator, China Mobile Communications Corp., for one year effective from Sept, 1, the company said in a conference call on Tuesday.

Asian demand for enterprise servers running the Linux operating system, already strong, will get a further boost from the development of Asianux, a version of Linux that has been developed as a standardized distribution for enterprise customers in Asia, according to a top executive at Oracle Corp.

China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has announced a tender for 19 high-technology research and development projects to be funded by the government's Electronics and Information Industry Development Fund (IT Fund).

Expanded measures being introduced by the Shanghai government to lower power consumption during peak hours this summer won't affect most foreign-invested companies, the official China Daily newspaper reported on Tuesday.

China's decision to lift a value-added tax (VAT) rebate on some domestically manufactured semiconductors will increase the competitive pressure on Chinese chip makers that have benefitted from the protective tax policy, chip makers said Friday.

Despite an initial wave of hype, Wi-Fi hotspots, which let users access the Internet using 802.11 wireless LAN technology, haven't turned into the lucrative revenue source that Chinese fixed-line telecommunications operators expected.