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The article reports on the use of supercomputers in China. It mentions the development of computer systems by Chinese companies, the software developed for the computers to work with artificial intelligence and big data, and the kinds of applications for which the supercomputers are used.

Discusses the background of Chinese computing and the implementation of a Chinese-English microcomputer system which is being used in several places including China. Relationship of computer handling of Japanese text to Chinese in terms of Kanji characters; Growth in computer use in China due to an increase in the use of mainframes and mini-computers.

Evaluates the computer technology applications in China. Assessment of initial planning, organization and educational aspects; Machine development progress and automation; Conceptualization of linear programming on workers and peasants.

Discusses the implications of IBM's decision to sell its Personal Computing Division to the Lenovo Group, China's biggest computer manufacturer. Significance of the purchase; Benefits of the Lenovo deal for IBM and for Lenovo; Background on Lenovo; How Lenovo is exploiting some advantages that western firms do not enjoy; Reasons why Chinese companies are gaining in the marketplace; Example of Chinese appliances company Haier; Issue of capitalism in China.

Offers a look at computer software company Microsoft Corporation in China as of June 2004. Report that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer regularly travel to China for meetings with customers and government officials; Report that corporate reorganizations are changing the outlook for Microsoft in China; Problems with piracy in China; Hostility of the government to Microsoft's monopoly; Role of Microsoft in improving customer support for big Chinese companies; Strategic alliance between Microsoft and Chinese companies; Competition Microsoft faces from software company Linux.

The article discusses computer company Apple Inc. and its successful business operations in China as of July 2012, focusing on the views of Chinese consumers towards Apple Inc. products such as the iPhone smartphone, and it also provides several charts and statistics, including a chart which depicts the average hourly wage of a factory worker in China. There are only six Apple Inc. retail stores in Greater China, despite the fact that many of Apple's products are built in China. It also states that there is a booming counterfeit market in China, including several fake Apple Inc. retail stores in cities such as Kunming, China.

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to define and analyze the innovation system of China's software industry in order to build its innovation capability. Design/methodology/approach - From a complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective, the authors researched the constitution and operating mechanism of China's software industry innovation system. By using methods and theories of CAS theory, the innovation problems of the software industry in China were analyzed and valuable suggestions put forth for its future development. Findings - Innovation system is one kind of complex systems and it has the characteristics of CAS. Research limitations/implications - Quantitative analysis of the software industry innovation system should be emphasized in the next stage of research. Practical implications - The paper provides a new perspective and useful advice for technology policymakers. Originality/value - The paper applies CAS theory to the area of social management and provides a new approach to study industrial innovation systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluates the economic progress made by Shenzhen, China after becoming a special economic zone in 1980. Conversion from a fishing village into an economic center; Efforts to become the capital of China's computer industry; Plans to build the CyberCity industrial park that would serve as the city's vision of itself.

The article presents information regarding the latest trends in computers as of January 2004. There is a legal hassle for the first generation of widespread and regular computer users who grow older. Legal experts in estate and probate matters agree that anything stored on a computer is considered "intangible" property, meaning it is probably worth more than the tangible property it occupies. The University of Michigan researchers are of the opinion that spammers should be charged for every message they send and the spam problem will disappear soon. The sneaker market is going to get a boom with the arrival of smart shoes, which are able to sense, calculate, and adapt to its physical environment in real time. The Chinese market continues to shun established protocols, electing instead to create its own. The countries of the world have invested heftily to provide citizens with a digital means for accessing services. Where humans use stereoscopic vision, hand dexterity, and sensory information from their fingertips to perform the intricate art of paper folding, a machine handles the task in a far different way.

Describes the computer market at Zhongguancun Street in the northwestern part of Beijing, China. Information on the major computer manufacturers with branches in the area; Details on how Zhongguancun firms operate their businesses; Market outlook for electronics in China.

The article examines new business enterprises in the computer and electronics industry located in Shenzhen, China. The business accelerator company Haxlr8r, which serves as an incubator for new businesses in those industries, is used to illustrate how the city's status as a center of electronics manufacturing is used by new businesses in the same manner as in high technology industries based on software.

The article focuses on the computer industry in China which, according to Professor Alan J. Perlis of Yale University's Computer Science Department, is showing great dependence on self-reliance at all levels. Perlis is one of the six Americans who visited China from July 10-28, 1972 to exchange information with Chinese computer scientists. They discovered that the Chinese began producing computers with vacuum tubes and transistors in the mid-1960s and then semiconductor logic machines during the 1969-1971 period. Perlis likened China's computer operations to the closed shop, batch processing that preceded introduction of the IBM System/360 in the U.S.

Focuses on the enterprise software business in China. Move of established companies to buy up ailing North American and European software companies; Projections on software and hardware sales for 2004; Government's plans of imposing software encryption for wireless networks and related devices as of June 1, 2004. INSET: FAIR TRADE: E-trading platforms in China take hold.

Focuses on the determination of China's major computer company Legend Group Ltd. to hold onto its share of the market while also expanding overseas. Attempt of improving its staff by having many of its employees take Master of Business Administration courses; Goal behind the reorganization; Effect of the competition on the company's business.

Reports on the decision of NIIT Ltd. to expand its operation in China. Terms and conditions agreed upon with China; Challenges experienced in pursuing with the project; Advantages of the project for parties involved.

The article focuses on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) China Council. It states the ACM China Council has three goals: raise ACM's visibility throughout China, contribute to advancing computing as a profession and science in China, and increase the number of high-quality ACM activities in China. It mentions that the China Computer Federation and ACM signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organizations in 2010 which established a 12-month joint membership.

Examines the China operations of Dell Computer Corp. Confidence in the company's constant growth in computer and related network services; Estimated total sales volume for 2002; Success of the company in avoiding costs and saving time that would be consumed by middlemen and in warehousing stock.

The article discusses the formation of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in China. Topics discussed in the article include ACM's goals to connect the computer industry within China to the rest of the world, steps that the ACM has taken to expand in other areas of the world, such as Europe, and difficulties that exist in getting China involved with the ACM.

Interviews Stephen Ward, an executive at IBM. Thoughts on running the Chinese company that is taking on IBM's computer business; Concerns consumers have regarding the future of the ThinkPad.

The article informs that Chinese authorities continue to crack down on Internet cafes, after closing 12,575 of them in the last three months of 2004. Net cafes are hugely popular in China, where the cost of hardware often makes online access prohibitive at home but where the government has always feared its influence. China's Net cafes operate under strict guidelines, including limits on how close they can be to schools. Cafes are required to use software that controls what Web sites users can visit, and cafe owners must keep logs of the sites customers visit. The government also dictates the types of computer games patrons can play in an effort to limit the exposure to violence.

Computer manufacturers have decided that they need another super-high-fidelity audio standard if they are to get better sound quality over the Internet and on iPod-type players of the future. At Intel's Developer Forum in Beijing, China, 80 companies, including Microsoft, agreed the specification for Intel high-definition audio (IHDA). While compact discs produce sounds at up to 20 kilohertz, which is around the top of the range of human hearing, IHDA will capture sound well beyond human hearing at up to 100 kilohertz.

Reports that more and more Chinese households in the late 1990s own personal computers. Number of Internet subscribers in Beijing; Growth of computer sales; Findings of a survey on computer purchases.

Reports on China's computer industry. Formation of a computer literacy campaign in China in 1984 by Deng Xiaoping; Percentage of China's computer market captured by overseas computer manufacturers in 1993; Number of installed computers; Number of computer enterprises.

Reports on the addition of a supplement to China's first intellectual property copyright law that covers software regulations. Chinese government's aim to attract computer-related imports into the country; Impact of software pirating on the computer industry; Cost of Chinese pirating efforts to the U.S.

Reports on the computer industry of China as of March 1983. Discussion on the tremendous gap in the development and use of computer technology between East and West; Report that more than 60 institutes engaged in designing and building machine prototypes; Information about computer flowers blossoming in China.

The article discusses the economic differences between India and China to assess their position in the global market. On comparison, one can find modest differences in the economic development of the two countries. Population growth of these countries have been a major concern. China has captured the attention of global market for direct foreign investment. The information technology industry has performed well in India.

The article offers information on supercomputing world's Top500 list where it shows that Intel Corp. dominates against Advance Micro Devices Inc. It states that China with its most powerful system to date, ranks no. 5 and Cray XT5 supercomputer located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ranks no. 1 with its 1.75 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. It adds that the list shows that U.S. leads the supercomputing clout with 277 systems, Europe with 153 systems, and Asia with 50 systems.

The article, part of a special section on technology in India and China, reports on the personal computer business in China, as old-school and up close retailing is prominent, a change from the personalized and made-to-order personal computer business in the U.S. and elsewhere. Particular focus is given to the company Lenovo, which started out as a computer distributor and has resellers in over one thousand Chinese cities.

The article reports on the success of the Chinese authorities in terms of policing the Internet industry in the country. According to the author, foreign Internet service providers find it hard to enter the Chinese market because of the effective cyber regulations. The author also cites the behavior of Chinese consumers as one of the major factors why cyber policing and the limiting of foreign operators have been successful in the country.

The article presents information on intellectual-property theft (IP theft) in China. It is stated that though intellectual-property theft is a common phenomenon in this nation, it will not affect the business process of multinational chip designers and manufacturers, since they have safeguards to prevent IP theft. Chipnuts Technology Inc. is using isolated servers, through which engineers gain access to designs. Microsoft Corp. is the most important victim of IP theft in China.

The article reports on the competition in the Chinese mainland between personal computer manufacturer, Dell and Lenovo, a computer manufacturer in China. Since its entry into the Chinese market in 1998, Dell managed to achieve a 10 percent share of the local market. The article examines the effects of the competition of both companies involving their operational modes and commercial cultures.

The article provides information about the operations of the Bejing, China-based computer peripherals and consumer electronics company, Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co. Its products include the Aigo line of MP3 and MP4 players, liquid crystal display monitors, digital cameras and USB thumb drives.

The article reports on the global expansion plans of the Beijing, China-based personal computer peripherals and consumer electronics company, Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co., in efforts to emulate the strategies of Sony and Samsung, in becoming a household name with cutting-edge technology. Its most popular product lines are low-margin MP3 players and USB flash drives.