Michael Kan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Michael Kan

Article | 15/04/2011 Groupon's China site big in visits, behind in sales

About a month after offering its first discounted deals, Groupon's China site is attracting big user numbers, but still lags behind the local competit...

Article | 13/04/2011 Razer Switchblade portable gaming PC heads to China

The Razer Switchblade, a small portable PC with a keyboard that can be customized for gaming, will first be released in China and feature games develo...

Article | 12/04/2011 Intel sets up MeeGo research center with China's Tencent

Intel is establishing a joint innovation center with Tencent, one of China's largest Internet firms, to develop products and services around the chip ...

Article | 12/04/2011 Intel hints at another new tablet chip, called Cloverview

Intel has hinted that is developing another next-generation chip for tablets, called "Cloverview," as part of its ongoing strategy to make its Atom pr...

Article | 8/04/2011 iPad dominates China, but the 'Happy Pad' takes aim

Lenovo, Motorola and Dell are preparing to launch tablets in China. But can the Happy Pad outsell Apple's iPad?

Article | 7/04/2011 Dell to invest $1 billion to boost data storage products

Dell plans to invest US$1 billion over the next three years to bolster its data storage products to business customers, with the money going toward th...

Article | 6/04/2011 More foreign brands use China's Taobao for e-commerce

More foreign brands like Adidas and Gap are expanding their reach into China's market by tapping the user base of the country's largest online retaile...

Article | 1/04/2011 China's Baidu to compensate songwriters for music downloads

China's largest search engine Baidu said it will start paying an agency representing songwriters for every music download on the site, after years of ...

Article | 1/04/2011 Google is in talks with China to keep Maps online

Google says it is in talks with the Chinese government about its online map product, which could be penalized in China due to new state laws.

Article | 31/03/2011 Baidu's online library shrinks following piracy cleanup

China's largest search engine Baidu is deleting millions of documents from its online library platform, in response to growing criticism from a group ...

Article | 30/03/2011 Google Maps nears first deadline on China requirement

Google has yet to apply for the necessary state license to operate its online mapping service in China, putting another Google product in jeopardy as ...

Article | 29/03/2011 ZTE supplying 4G LTE TDD/FDD network gear to Swedish company

A China backed telecommunications technology known as LTE TDD is being used to build new high-speed 4G (fourth generation) networks in Sweden and Denm...

Article | 29/03/2011 Lenovo launches LePad tablet in China

Chinese PC maker Lenovo said it launched its first tablet computer, the LePad, in China on Monday, marking the company's entrance into one of the hott...

Article | 28/03/2011 Poisoned Chinese iPhone workers still seeking treatment

A group of Chinese workers who were poisoned while manufacturing iPhones say Apple and its supplier have yet to provide for the additional medical tre...

Article | 26/03/2011 China Web censorship stirs scorn, support

Du Xiang Yu, a 20-year-old living in Beijing, has never heard of Facebook. He adds that he never visits any foreign websites, even though he uses the ...