Michael Kan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Michael Kan

Article | 5/08/2011 China's IT outsourcing firms aim to move up the value chain

Microsoft, IBM and other multinational companies have long been customers for VanceInfo, one of China's largest IT outsourcing firms. With more than 1...

Article | 3/08/2011 US court rejects dismissal in China Internet filter case

A U.S. court rejected motions to dismiss defendants in a US$2.2 billion lawsuit involving a Chinese government-backed Web filtering package that was a...

Article | 2/08/2011 Huawei appoints former UK CIO to head cyber security post

Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei has appointed a former U.K. government chief information officer to oversee the company's cyber s...

Article | 1/08/2011 Foxconn to rely more on robots for manufacturing

Foxconn, the maker of Apple's iPhone and iPad, plans to rely more on robots for manufacturing over the coming years, allowing the company to invest mo...

Article | 29/07/2011 Dell launches 10-inch Android tablet in China

Dell launched its newest 10-inch Android tablet exclusively in China on Friday, with the aim of capturing a slice of the country's growing mobile Inte...

Article | 28/07/2011 China's Alibaba unveils new mobile OS

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has launched its own mobile operating system for handsets and tablets in its home country, with the aim of prom...

Article | 26/07/2011 Zynga partners with Tencent to launch game in China

U.S. social game developer Zynga has partnered with one of China's largest Internet companies, Tencent, to bring its popular CityVille game to the cou...

Article | 26/07/2011 China's Baidu revenues gets boost from advertisers

China’s largest search engine Baidu posted strong earnings for the second quarter, driven by growing traffic and increased spending by advertising cus...

Article | 22/07/2011 HTC unveils smartphone for Chinese Twitter-like service

After announcing smartphones with a dedicated Facebook button, HTC is trying the same formula in China. This time it will have a button connecting to ...

Article | 21/07/2011 Acer to buy U.S. cloud technology provider iGware

Acer said Thursday it plans to acquire iGware, a cloud technology company in the U.S., for US$320 million, as part of a plan to allow users to more ea...

Article | 21/07/2011 Foxconn worker falls to death in suspected suicide

An employee of Foxconn fell to his death in China earlier this week, just a year after a string of suicides at its facilities in the country.

Article | 20/07/2011 Apple's China sales up six-fold in fiscal third quarter

Apple believes it is just "scratching the surface" of the Chinese market, as the company's revenue from the country for the quarter ended June 25 incr...

Article | 19/07/2011 China reaches 485 million Internet users as growth slows

China added 27 million Internet users over the last six months, bringing the total number to 485 million, but the growth of China's Internet populatio...

Article | 19/07/2011 Baidu strikes deal to pay record companies for music

China's leading search engine Baidu will now pay three major record companies for music downloads on its site, after years of facing criticism for hos...

Article | 18/07/2011 Baidu offers beta version of its own web browser

China's largest search engine, Baidu, has begun offering downloads of its new Internet browser, which boasts its own collection of 30,000" apps" that ...