According to a leading Chinese manufacturer, there is a newer version of iPhone 4G, code name N99, in development that will support CDMA technology in addition to the GSM support today. The next generation iPhone will not only include better hardware and software, but also include back panel touch capabilities, 5M pixel camera, video calls capability and enhanced wireless networking features, such as WLAN wireless local area network IEEE 802.11n support that could enhance the data transfer rate up to 600Mbps.

From an industry perspective, cosmetics, commercial and service industries, food, beverage, pharmaceutical are the top 5 leading industries for China's advertisement. Most notable advertisement sector is the beverage industry that has grown more than 52% in 2009 to make it the fast growing advertisement sector in China.

China's Internet advertisement market is relatively small compare to the overall china advertisement market, accounts to about 15% of the market share: 6.87B RMB in 2008 and 8B RMB in 2009, leading by 4 large China media portals: Sina, Sohu, Tencent and NetEase, and search engines: Baidu and Google. The expected advertisement growth will be in mobile ads. China's mobile Internet users has reached 192M, one of the fastest growth sector of the advertisement industry with 62% year-to-year growth.

Mophie, a iphone solution developer, will work with 2 Japanese firms, Flight System Consulting and Focal Point Computer, to develop a mobile payment solution for FeliCa technology. FeliCa is a contactless IC card technology developed by Sony that is used in approximately 100 million mobile phones and more than 120 million transportation and electronic money cards in Japan alone. The system is expected to be available in spring 2010 in Japan and allow users to instantly read and write electronic money card information using only the iPhone device and marketplace FeliCa applications.

South Korean scientists have developed a walking robot maid called Mahru-Z that has a human-like body including a rotating head, arms, legs and six fingers plus three-dimensional vision to recognise chores that need to be tackled, the Korea Times reports. The walking robt can clean a home, dump clothes in a washing machine and even heat food in a microwave. It took the Korea Institute of Science and Technolog two years to develop Mahru-Z, which is 1.3 metres (4.3 feet) tall and weighs 55 kilograms (121 pounds). It could also work with an earlier maid robot called Marhu-M which moves on wheels, since both can be remotely controlled through a computer server.
“The most distinctive strength of Mahru-Z is its visual ability to observe objects, recognize the tasks needed to be completed, and execute them,” You Bum-Jae, head of the cognitive robot center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, told the Korea Times.

Remember Wall-E? I think we will see it soon :)

Android systems are already used in a variety of portable devices and terminals. Chinese manufacturer OPPO Digital, which announced Android based smart phone last year, has recently announced that it is developing the first android based e-book product, called Enjoy. OPPO Enjoy will become one of the first Android e-book reader products in the market. By virtue of Android's openness and scalability, the user can read the documentations in multiple formats. The OPPO Enjoy Android reader will use 6-inch 800 × 600 pixel resolution E-Ink screen, similar to the technology used by Sony and the Amazon Kindle e-books. 

Compare to an Amazon Kindle below:

Last week, according to Analysys International Enfodesk Industry Database "China's online retail market trend forecast 2009-2012", China's online ecommerce market has reached 252.6 billion RMB in 2009, which translates to about $36B in US Dollars. This reflects an impressive growth curve that more than doubled of 120B RMB online ecommerce market in 2008. China ecommerce market is still relatively small compared to $156B online ecommerce in the US based on Forrester Research number. But if you look at the growth trend, US online shopping growth is slowing down from 13% growth in 2008 to 11% growth in 2009. In comparison, China's Online ecommerce market has been more doubled every year for the last few years. This reflects an accelerated convergence to online shopping and presents a significant large market for domestic and international vendors. Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou are the top 3 cities for online shopping. Male online shoppers outnumber women, accounting for 55 percent. Electronic products are the main consumption choice among male shoppers.