A Chinese court has rejected a trademark infringement case filed by Apple alleging that a Chinese company is infringing on the iPad name, the Southern Metropolis Daily reveals.
According to a report from the newspaper on Tuesday, a court in Shenzhen, China rejected Apple’s suit claiming that Proview Technology was infringing on the iPad name.
The court has ruled that Proview has registered the iPad trademark it uses as far back as 2000.
Proview’s registration for the iPad name included its …

China is now the world’s largest smartphone buyer as the Asian giant passed the U.S. sales volume of smartphones in the previous quarter, a report from Strategy Analytics reveals.
According to the research firm’s report, the Chinese bought 24 million smartphones during the third quarter, more than the 23 million smartphones Americans bought in the same quarter.
The Strategy Analytics report says that the volume of smartphones sold in China in the said quarter grew by a whopping 58 percent …

Giant mysterious structures were detected recently in the Chinese Gobi Desert and in several other regions of China. The images of these structures recently appeared in Google Maps.
These unexpected objects have caused a real stir in the media and among Internet users scratching their heads over their nature. The photographed mysterious objects include – a huge blue rectangular structure and mysterious objects that represent the chaotic intersection of huge white lines, strange structure, …

Facebook Inc., CEO Mark Zuckerberg, speaking with Charlie Rose in a special that will air today, said Apple co-founder Steve Jobs helped his company to sharpen their focus and build a management team. Job, who died on October 5th, felt that it was his duty to help and advise emerging technology executives like Mark Zuckerberg, according to his biographer Walt Isaacson. Jobs said he admired Zuckerberg for not selling out and trying to build something.
 

Zuckerberg said Steve Jobs coached …

China has once again denied a recently announced US report accusing it of using hacking and spying to gain trade secrets.

China, with or without evidence, rejected the latest US report involving cyber espionage. (Image: Matt Barber (CC), via Flickr)

A report from the US Office of Counter Intelligence claimed that China and Russia are employing cyber espionage to acquire American trade secrets.
According to Reuters, the report to Congress indicated that highly sensitive information are …

A report from the US government has accused China and Russia for hacking attacks and spying activities.

The US condemns the hacking attacks and spying activities from China and Russia. (Image: quatro.sinko (CC), via Flickr)

The October-dated report entitled Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace comes from the Office of Counter Intelligence.
According to the report, cyber-attacks against financial and government institutions have increased, showing a graphic with a Wall …

Amazon is reportedly talking to the Chinese government to launch its line of Kindle devices in the country, a report from a local media outlet reveals.

Amazon is in talks with Chinese regulators to launch the Kindle line of e-readers and the Kindle Fire tablet in China. Image: Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious / Flickr (CC)

According to Sohu IT, Amazon Senior Vice President Marc Onetto told them on Thursday that the American company is currently in talks with Chinese regulators about launching …

Catcher Technology, one of Apple’s Taiwan-based supplier, has announced to shut down some operations at its factory located in Eastern China following pollution complaints by local residents, reports AP. The residents living near the factory were complaining of bad odors in the area for the past some time.
The company supplies metal casings for some specific models of Apple’s laptops. It also supplies cellphone casings for some other brands including HTC.
Hung Shui-shu, company chairman, …

Apple is yet to launch its new iPhone 4S in China, but there is no dearth of people in China who are ready to acquire it at a whopping price of US$2000 from the black market, reports TOI.
A shopper at an electronics market in Beijing says that he is selling 32 GB iPhone 4S for 13,000 yuan (US$ 2000). Similarly, the 16 GB model is being sold at US$17,00. The shopkeeper, refusing to tell his name, told that these phones are coming from Australia and America, are unlocked and without …

Some shops in China now offer the iPhone 4S even though Apple has not officially released their newest smartphone in the country yet, a report from The Agence France-Presse says.

Several shops in China are already selling the iPhone 4S even though Apple is yet to officially release the device in the country, a report from the AFP says. Image: Philip Jägenstedt / Flickr (CC)

According to the report, “several Beijing shops” on Saturday started selling the iPhone 4S.
The AFP quotes an …