When the HTC Salsa and the ChaCha (Status) phones were unveiled they contained a tie-in to Facebook — a small logo looking button that resides on the bottom of the phone that makes it convenient to share on the social networking giant. And well, while we may have seen more than a few comments from more »

According their own website, the Chinese government is looking into tracking its citizens by their phone. Using the data signal, the government is looking to track users in real time. The government holds they will use this information for traffic reporting purposes. In Beijing, cell phone adoption rates hover near 70%. Movies in the western more »

Today, Apple announced that their online store is now open in China. Previously, customers in China needed to visit an Apple store or purchase through another vendor to get Apple products (or participate in the grey market that sends someone to New York to buy a boat load of iPhones, then haul them back to more »

Coming by way of an official press release, HTC has announced plans to begin selling HTC-branded smartphone in China. And while that does not sound all that interesting to anyone outside of China — its nice to hear because the phones had already been available. Wait what, they are going to sell them, but they more »

We have seen reports in the past which suggested that Dell had an Android-based smartphone in the works, and once again that rumor has resurfaced. The latest is coming courtesy of TechCrunch, who are reporting that a “source with knowledge of the situation tells us that Dell is launching (or at least announcing) a mobile more »

Lots of Google properties have their own labs, like Gmail. Now, the Google Toolbar is getting its own set of labs. Right now, there are two labs. The toolbar is location aware. Google Maps will automatically fill in your current location via Wi-Fi access points. The “My Location” lab only works in the U.S. A more »

The latest data released by Microsoft has revealed some interesting truths regarding Vista, XP and security. Nearly every possible aspect of Vista has been attacked, and it’s been labeled as a failure by many who continue to use XP and campaign for continued support. However, data released in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows that Vista is in fact less vulnerable to exploits than XP.

The data, which was collected from January to June this year, shows a decline of vulnerabilities from 116 to 77 in a downward trend that mirrors the industry, which, in turn, has a 19% decrease. Regarding XP and Vista Microsoft found that in computers running XP, Microsoft’s own software contained 42% of the vulnerabilities attacked with third party software making up the other 58%. However in Vista PCs, only 6% of vulnerabilities were in Microsoft software, and this is due to (according to Vinny Gullotto general manager of Microsoft’s malware protection center) new security technologies. More after the break.

Whenever one country receives a highly anticipated piece of technology first, many other countries get jealous and find ways to illegally obtain that device. Currently, T-Mobile’s G1 was only released several days ago in America and hasn’t been released elsewhere at this time. Some Chinese are desperate to try out the first phone running Google’s Android and so they have begun buying G1s from American consumers for big bucks, or should I say big renminbi.

For about RMB 3,999, about $584, you can purchase your own G1. If you wish to purchase an unlocked G1, then it will cost an additional RMB 500, or $73. It looks like the price of the G1 will remain high, until T-Mobile officially introduces the G1 to China, even though China is receiving a lot of illegal phones.

Sony has recently began to venture into the Chinese market, and they did this by announcing the new, fancy, and pretty expensive PMX-M80 portable media player. One of the key features of this PMP is that it comes with preloaded maps, similar to Google Maps, which could be found on the iPhone. These maps also more »

Chinese Internet users from Beijing and Shanghai are reporting that they can now access the English-language version of Wikipedia after it was blocked by the Chinese authorities a couple of months ago. However, the Chinese version and other sites which have politically sensitive topics such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square remained restricted at this time.

The decision to remove the restriction followed after an inspector from the International Olympic Committee (OIC) told the Beijing Olympic organizers that the Chinese government should remove the restriction even just for the duration of the 2008 Olympics. According to the inspector, continually blocking the access to Wikipedia might reflect a bad impression about the host country.