WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: China

Finally, WiFi Coming with New Apple iPhones in China

By | August 7, 2010 | Mobile Nature

It has been a Long March to put WiFi on the Apple  iPhones released in China, but starting next Monday, August 9, all new iPhones will be equipped with WiFi. Chinese regulators prevented WiFi abilities on mobile devices while authorities attempted to get their own WAPI standard adopted. A combination of Western patience and Chinese pragmatism […]

Research In Motion Claims To Be Saying “No, Not, Never”

By | August 4, 2010 | Cultural Interface

Despite threats of closing down their service in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, leaks from sources inside Kuwait and India that they have already conceded some access and threats from other countries to do the same, Research in Motion is claiming that they have not given in to opening their system. Mike Lazaridis […]

Saudi Arabia and the UAE to Block Blackberry

By | August 1, 2010 | Cultural Interface

Today, the United Arab Emirates announced that it will start blocking Blackberry email, messaging and web browsing features starting on October 11. Almost immediately following this announcement, Saudi Arabian telcos were ordered to begin blocking the messenger service of Blackberry later this month. The UAE cited security concerns as the primary reason to take this […]

iPhone in South Korea, Soon To Be In All Major Asian Markets

By | September 26, 2009 | Mobile Nature

The regulatory agency in charge of telecommunications in South Korean has approved Apple’s iPhone for entrance to the country. Two wireless carriers are now in negotiations with Apple to carry the iPhone: SK Telecom Co, Ltd. and KT Corporation. KT Corporation, a former state run monopoly, has 90% of the wireline telephone service and is the […]

First Marco Polo, Now the iPhone in China

By | August 8, 2009 | Mobile Nature

Apple iPhone will be arriving in China by the end of 2009. iPhone’s arrival may not bring the myriad benefits of noodles and gun powder, back to the West, but will most certainly increase iPhone sales and substantially expand the reach of the App Store. As the ink of the deal begins to dry, it […]