Baidu.com ( BIDU ) has reached an agreement with 16 Chinese domestic recording companies who have authorized Baidu to provide free MP3 downloading of the songs of about 100 performers.

Four national banks of China are going to soon adopt a third-party digital certification for their online banking system despite already having their own certification systems in place.

Tian Jian, general manager of Yahoo! ( YHOO ) China's search service, says that Yahoo has started consultations with the top management of the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on expanding the Chinese online search engine sector.

A representative of the Mobile Phone Alliance in China, which was launched at the end of October by Skyworth, Gold Home, Malata and Daxian, has told the local media that the four parties will meet once again in Shenzhen on

Cisco Systems ( CSCO ) has appointed Thomas Lam as President, China Operations. Lam will be based in Beijing and report to Owen Chan, President, Asia Pacific Operations, Cisco Systems.

Syniverse ( SVR ) has been awarded a contract with China Unicom Macau, a subsidiary of the world's second largest CDMA wireless operator.

China Education Television (CETV) will use SkyStream's media delivery platforms to expand video content distribution, rural Internet service and distance-learning programs to remote areas.

China's Ministry of Public Security has published a short list of the ten most serious intellectual property rights infringement cases for 2005.

If the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva two years ago was one of vision, the second phase in Tunis, Tunisia, should be one of action. That was the key message in a speech given Wednesday

Online newspapers saw growth of 11% in unique visitors between October 2004 and October 2005 according to Nielsen//NetRatings, a pace faster than the 3% growth of active users on the entire Net.

JupiterReseach reports that online travel revenues will rise nearly 20% this year.

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