What a Hotel Mini Program Does
Booking ahead, tiered membership, a back end the front desk can actually use, and a channel to the guest. Four things, none of which a third-party listing gives you.
Shenzhen’s AI Industry in Depth
Three trillion in GDP, first nationally on innovation and demographic potential, 1,318 AI companies and a full supply chain. What the numbers say about where the industry stands.
A Big Data Challenge Kicks Off in Hubei
China Mobile's Wutong Cup has opened its smart city track in Hubei, with student teams from across the country working on big data applications.
JDK 8u202 Is the Last Free Oracle JDK
Anything after January 2019 is licensed differently. What changed on 16 April 2019, and what a commercial deployment actually requires.
China’s Internet Businesses Grew Revenue 5.1% in January and February
Revenue up, profit down 7.4%, R&D down 2.8%. Security services grew fastest at 35.2%, and the central region was the only one to contract.
5G Investment Starts Paying Off as Carriers Build Computing Networks
Peak capex has passed, digital services are the growth line, and all three carriers have turned to computing networks. The 2021 numbers and what comes next.
The 6G Race Enters Its Critical Window
2030 commercial launch is now the industry's shared assumption. What 6G adds beyond 5G, why the work starts before 5G has finished, and where the standards risk splitting.
Smart Cars and Smart Roads: Fixing Urban Traffic
AI-enabled vehicles and instrumented road networks, applied to the problems cities actually have: parking, congestion, and the traffic that behaves unpredictably at one junction but lawfully across a district.
China’s Software Revenue Grew 11.6% in January and February
1.18 trillion yuan of software revenue, exports up 7.1%, and information technology services now 65.3% of the whole sector. The segment-by-segment numbers.
Computing Power Moves Into Every Industry
China's computing power index has risen faster than any other country's, and the returns are showing up well beyond the data centre — on factory floors, in bank back offices and inside car computing platforms.
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