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Technology Digest

Lenovo wins AmeriStar Award for green electronics packaging

Lenovo Group, the world's third-largest personal computer maker, was recognised last week in the United States for its efforts in adopting environmentally friendly electronics packaging and design.

The chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Federal Environmental Executive and the Green Electronics Council credited Lenovo for helping supply US federal agencies with computers that meet the country's Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool criteria.

The US Institute of Packaging Professionals gave the company the 2006 AmeriStar Award in the electronics packaging category for the Lenovo Desktop PC Reflex thermoformed cushion design, which helps reduce significantly the use of so-called virgin plastic required in the production of traditional foam packaging. Bien Perez

Hisense and ON set up joint power IC laboratory in Qingdao

Mainland television manufacturer Hisense Electric and ON Semiconductor, one of the world's leading suppliers of power-management chips, have set up a joint laboratory in the port city of Qingdao to develop energy-saving, power integrated circuits.

The centre will help develop enhanced power-management devices for a range of liquid-crystal display, plasma and cathode-ray tube television products made by Shanghai-listed Hisense. Bien Perez

CDC Games invests in Korean computer game developer

CDC Games, a unit of technology group CDC Corp, has agreed to make a strategic investment in MGame, one of South Korea's leading online game developers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

'As we expand ... into a co-owner of the intellectual property, we will gain increasing ability to co-develop and distribute games that are culturally aware, entertaining and educational to the millions of online game-users in China,' CDC Games chairman Fred Wang said.

MGame developed Yulgang, a popular licensed free-to-play game in the mainland distributed by CDC Games. Bien Perez

Asia Media the first mainland firm to list on Tokyo exchange

Asia Media will be the first mainland firm to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It would go public on April 26 with an offering of 4.7 million new shares, the exchange said. The estimated size of the deal was not clear. Pricing will be decided on April 17. Asia Media, set up in July 2004, provides television programming data via the internet and cable television. Sherman So

Coca-Cola partners Xiaonei in sales internship programme

Coca-Cola is partnering Oak Pacific Interactive's campus social networking site Xiaonei.com to promote its 'University General Manager' activity at coke.xiaonei.com, mainland media said. Undergraduate students at 10 Beijing universities can sign up on the site for a chance to receive marketing and sales training at Coca-Cola, with some eventually gaining employment with the firm.

Sherman So

Applied Materials inaugurates global support centre in Xian

Semiconductor-manufacturing equipment supplier Applied Materials opened a US$33 million global development and technology support centre in Xian on Friday.

'The Xian centre ... positions us strategically to benefit as growth continues throughout China, particularly in the west,' said Mike Splinter, the president and chief executive of Applied Materials.

The centre will also be a demonstration facility for 200mm wafer processing. Bien Perez

Music firm wins suit against Sina over ringtone downloads

The Beijing district court has ordered Sina to pay 10,000 yuan in compensation to local music company Tiger Impression, according to mainland media. Sina was sued by Tiger for copyright infringement on January 17. Tiger stated that Sina had provided colour ring-back tone downloads of its song Xiang Shui You Du without permission. Sherman So

Oracle joins Savi in offering global tracking of box cargo

Enterprise software supplier Oracle and Savi Technology, which offers radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions, have teamed up to provide real-time, international cargo container tracking between Hong Kong and Japan.

Their work was part of a pilot project initiated by GS1 EPCglobal to improve supply chain operations in top logistics centres, such as Hong Kong. Bien Perez

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