Posts Tagged ‘Gadgets & Electronics’

Tsinghua Tongfang Unveils One-year Replacement Policy For Notebooks

Chinese PC maker Tsinghua Tongfang is making consumers happy with a new one-year replacement after-sales policy for its notebook products. This policy covers the company’s eight designated types of notebooks which were purchased after August 1, 2010, as well as all newly-launched notebooks in the future. Starting from the day of the purchase, all these [...]


China’s Gome To Sue Former Chairman

Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Gome has announced that its board of directors has decided to sue its former executive director Huang Guangyu. As part of this initiative, the company requires Huang to compensate losses caused by his irregular activities in the repurchase of shares of Gome at the beginning of 2008. According to [...]


Microsoft’s New Gaming Device Will Not Be Sold In Chinese Mainland

Michel van der Bel, chief operating officer of Microsoft China, has revealed to the Chinese local media that due to policy limit in China, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console and the newly-developed Kinect controller-free gaming device will not be sold in the Chinese mainland market. However, Microsoft displayed the new Kinect-based games to its [...]


Sony Vaio Laptops Recalled In China

Japanese electronics giant Sony Corporation is recalling 55,362 VPCF11 series and VPCCW2 series laptop computers under its Vaio brand in mainland China due to overheating problems, the country’s quality watchdog said last week. The affected laptops were produced between December 2009 and February 2010, while sales of these laptops kicked off in January 2010, according [...]


Egypt Will Ban Chinese Shanzai Mobile Phones

Following India’s recent block of Chinese-made shanzai mobile phones without an International Mobile Equipment Identity number in 2009, the Egyptian government has recently announced similar measures against these mobile phones.
The National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Egypt has approved a ban, stating that it will block anonymous users and Chinese-made mobile phones with the same IMEIs.
The [...]


Chinese Home Appliances Trade-in Policy Launched In 19 Additional Regions

China’s Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Environmental Protection have jointly published a “Home Appliances Trade-in Promotion Program”, stating that from June 1, 2010, the policy will be launched in 19 additional provinces and cities, in addition to the existing nine pilot provinces and cities, and the implementation period of the policy [...]


China Establishes Electronic Information Product Pollution Control Certification System

To control and reduce environmental pollution caused by electronic information product waste, the Certification and Accreditation Administration of China and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China have jointly announced plans to establish a national electronic information product pollution control certification system in China.
In line with this move, the two government units have [...]


Beijing Extends Home Appliances Trade-in Policy To End Of 2011

According to reports in local media, the one-year-old home appliances trade-in policy, which was supposed to conclude at the end of May 2010, has been prolonged to the end of 2011 in Beijing, and the subsidy rates remain unchanged.
In June 2009, China launched a home appliances and electronics trade-in implementation solution and stated that from [...]


Workers At Apple Supplier Suffer From n-Hexane Poisoning In China

According to Hong Kong media, about 62 workers from China’s Jiangsu province have been hospitalized for n-Hexane poisoning while they worked for Wintek, a supplier of Apple.
The reports, which also appeared in mainland Chinese media like Sohu.com, state that the workers were working on touchscreens for Apple’s iPhone products before they got n-Hexane poisoning and [...]


Dell Sues Taiwanese Company For Manipulating LCD Prices

American PC maker Dell has sued five companies, including HannStar Display from Taiwan, for jointly manipulating the prices of LCD products.
Dell filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, stating that the five companies, including Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko Epson from Japan and HannStar Display from Taiwan, were involved in LCD price fixing [...]