Michael Kan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Michael Kan

Article | 14/10/2011 U.S. Commerce Dept mum on Huawei block, citing security

The U.S. Department of Commerce will not explain why it is blocking Chinese company Huawei from participating in a project to build a national wireles...

Article | 13/10/2011 China's Huawei aims to build an iconic phone brand

Phone design in China is done much like being served snake, chicken, fish and frog when eating a single meal in the country, according to Hagen Fendle...

Article | 13/10/2011 Lenovo surpasses Dell, becomes No. 2 PC vendor

Lenovo surpassed Dell to become the world's second largest PC vendor at the end of the third quarter, according to research firms IDC and Gartner.

Article | 12/10/2011 Huawei asks U.S. to explain its exclusion from emergency network project

China's Huawei Technologies has called on the U.S. Department of Commerce to explain why the company is apparently being excluded from participation i...

Article | 12/10/2011 China's Tencent launches English version of Twitter-like service

Chinese Internet giant Tencent has launched an English language interface to its popular microblogging service, putting the company in closer competit...

Article | 11/10/2011 Close to half the iPads sold in China are from the gray market

While Apple's iPad reigns as the top-selling tablet in China, half of the sales for the iconic device have come from unauthorized resellers, according...

Article | 30/09/2011 Dell launches new ultrathin laptop first in China

Dell launched a new ultrathin laptop in China on Friday called the XPS 14z, which is slated to arrive in other markets later this year to take advanta...

Article | 29/09/2011 ZTE releasing new tablets, one with Nvidia Tegra 3 chip

ZTE, one of China's largest network and phone suppliers, is working on several new tablets, including one built with Nvidia's newest quad-core Tegra 3...

Article | 29/09/2011 Fruit Ninja aims to slice into China

The maker of Fruit Ninja has big hopes for China, and aims for the hit game to reach an additional 70 million downloads in the country over the next s...

Article | 28/09/2011 Fire at Foxconn facility in China, no injuries

Foxconn, the maker of electronics equipment including Apple's iPhone, said a fire broke out on Tuesday at one of the company's facilities in China, th...

Article | 27/09/2011 How Microsoft Research helped Craig Mundie speak Chinese

Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, doesn't speak Chinese. But on Tuesday he did, via a life-like virtual avatar shown at t...

Article | 27/09/2011 Lenovo forms JV with Compal to build new PC factory

PC vendor Lenovo has formed a joint venture with laptop contract manufacturer Compal Electronics to build and operate a new factory in China, as part ...

Article | 26/09/2011 Apple held talks with Chinese environmental groups

Apple held talks with Chinese environmental groups earlier this month after the US tech giant was criticized for using manufacturers accused of pollut...

Article | 26/09/2011 Huawei unveils new Honor smartphone with long battery life

Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Huawei announced a new Android smartphone that the company says has a battery life of up to three days on a single c...

Article | 23/09/2011 ZTE launches first smartphone in the US through Cricket

Mobile carrier Cricket announced on Thursday it will start selling the ZTE Score, the first smartphone from Chinese telecommunications equipment suppl...