Internet giant Google has once again landed in a controversy in China, with the government on Wednesday saying it has completed a probe into charges that the company operated in the country without proper license.
China has 467 million cell phone users by the end of January, indicating that one out of three Chinese owned a mobile, latest official statistics showed.
The number of mobile phone subscribers in China has swelled to over 420 million at the end of May, outpacing the fixed line users, the ministry of information industry said on Wednesday.
China's information industry boomed in 2004 with the number of mobile phone users reaching 334 million and Internet subscribers touching 95 million, ministry of information industry has said.
The spread of Short Messaging Service continues unabated in China with its volume increasing by 39 per cent in the first quarter of the year to 67.21 billion messages, the state media reported.\n\n
China, whose software exports surged to $2.8 billion, has claimed that the scale of its software industry has surpassed that of India and South Korea.
The export volume of China's information technology products is expected to reach 200 billion this year, China's ministry of information industry said on Friday.
China's information and telecommunication industry witnessed rapid growth in 2003 with impressive performances reported from hardware, software and mobile phone sectors, the ministry of information industry said.
Chinese mobile phone users sent a whopping 217.76 billion SMS messages in 2004, up 58.8 per cent from the previous year, the government said.
There is no denying that China is booming! According to a media reports sales of laptop computer and digital television -- items long considered fit only for the rich are expected to boom.
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