According to reports in local media, Chinese Internet retailer Taobao.com has launched a software application store as an enhancement to its Taobao Open Platform.

Chinese retail information solutions provider Changyi Technologies has set up a strategic partnership with the retail solutions provider Retalix, to provide more advanced information technology to Chinese retail enterprises.

In a recent operation codenamed Intruder, officers from the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau raided five shops in Tsuen Wan and Sham Shui Po and, for the first time, seized eight portable electronic game consoles with circumvention devices and 16 memory cards loaded with pirated games, with a total value of HKD13,500 in total.

Taiwanese computing, communications and consumer retailer Tsann Kuen has announced plans to return to the Chinese mainland market in 2009.

IBM and China's eFuture Information Technology announced the launch of a Software-as-a-Service solution for the retail distribution industry in China.

Microsoft aims to increase its market share in the mobile phone operation system market through cooperation with D.Phone, one of the largest mobile phone retailers in China.