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Since Jan. 12, Google's primary mission when it comes to its China operations has been damage control. What, if any, of its businesses beside search will survive? So far, it appears that Chinese adopters of Google's new Android operating system - including China Mobile and China Unicom, the two dominant mobile-phone companies - still have the government's permission to utilize the platform. But the future of other businesses that Google is involved with in China - for example, TOP 100.cn. a music portal funded by Google and several big music labels - is unclear...
...laughs along the way, the main character’s struggle to overcome his own grief emerges as the central, and most compelling, narrative. The film opens as Burke arrives in Seattle to lead a grief seminar. He is on the brink of a huge multimedia deal with Unicom, an entertainment conglomerate that wants to promote him as the next Dr. Phil. But his penchant for solitary shots of Grey Goose quickly reveals that he has yet to confront the issues through which he guides his audiences. His wife’s death in a car accident three years before...
...course, it will be a long time before the iPhone is commonplace in China. The typical phone here is a $100 Nokia. China Unicom hasn't named its price for the iPhone 3G and 3GS models that it plans to bring to the market this fall, but with a gray-market 3G iPhone now going for about $575 in China, the device will be far beyond the means of the average Chinese phone buyer. (See TIME's top iPhone applications...
...Still, some analysts question whether China Unicom will have the marketing and customer-service skills to drive iPhone sales. The company has 140 million wireless customers, compared with market leader China Mobile's nearly 500 million. While the iPhone comes with a marketing halo that few Chinese companies can match, it will be up to Unicom to harness that. "Unicom has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity," says Clark. "But this might be the time they transcend that." The agreement with China Unicom is not exclusive and offers no revenue-sharing for Apple, meaning the U.S. computer maker...
...iPhone to be released in China this year will come without wi-fi communications capability, a concession made earlier to comply with Chinese regulations that restrict the technology to promote the domestic WAPI standard. Those rules have since been eased, and Apple and Unicom are now hurrying to bring wi-fi phones to the Chinese market, Clark says. In the meantime, they may have trouble selling their hobbled models. "In my view, it will be a challenge to sell these dumbed-down models. Chinese consumers are savvy," Clark says. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...