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Dell builds smartphones for new Baidu Yi platform

Chinese internet company Baidu is set to partner with PC giant Dell to develop smartphones that will run new software platform, Baidu Yi. The Baidu Yi platform, announced on Friday, has been developed to tackle the highly competitive Chinese mobile market and the software will be installed as standard on the new soon to be released Dell smartphones. Although not an operating system in itself, it has been reported that Baidu Yi is based on Android software. The Guardian reports that Baidu has announced that its own version of Google Android mobile operating system will be upcoming. Seeing as the Chinese search engine has long voiced its displeasure with Google , it’s likely it will take advantage of the fact Android can be altered to remove the default Google search function and apps. Baidu is China’s top search engine with an 80 per cent share of the market, and, not content with only expanding into smartphones, it also plans to develop tablet computers and go head to head with market leaders Apple and Lenovo. Analysts believe this latest partnership could signal a turning point in the fortunes of Dell’s waning tablet business. Dell’s Streak 5 was an Android-based smartphone-tablet hybrid that failed to take off and which was therefore discontinued in the US last month. “Dell has got nothing to lose, they don’t have a big mobile presence, so by partnering Baidu, they will probably get some momentum for their mobile products,” says Garter research director, Sandy Shen

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Baidu Wins Copyright Infringement Case in China

According to The Hollywood Reporter, leading Chinese search engine Baidu has won a court case against the three major music labels over allegations that it was linking to illegal search engine sites. A court in Bejing ruled in favor of Baidu and the portal site Sohu.com and its Sogou search engine, finding that they were not in violation of the country’s copyright laws by linking to sites that hosted illegally downloaded media files or to the files themselves.

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Top Chinese Search Engine Baidu to Venture into Online Video

Reuters reports that Baidu, the top search engine in China, is poised to make a foray into the underserved but potentially lucrative online video market. Sources close to the company claim the Baidu is teaming up with Providence Equity Partners, a major investor in Hulu.com, to create a new online video channel in China.

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Baidu Faces Monopoly Lawsuit

About the same time that it was attacked by the Chinese government for failing to censor links to pornographic websites, Baidu, China’s largest search engine with 65% of the market share, was also hit with a monopoly lawsuit from Qmyy.com.

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Baidu Releases Japanese Language Search Engine

The Japanese language search engine, www.baidu.jp, run by Baidu’s Japanese subsidiary, Baidu, Inc., has been released.

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Yahoo! Web Hosting, Debuts Unlimited Disk Space

Yahoo! has debuted a new service to provide small businesses with unlimited disk space, to aid in online growth. The new Yahoo! Web Hosting service includes unlimited disk space, data transfer, and email storage space, for $11.95 per month.

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eBay, with Search Engine, Baidu, Form Alliance

eBay EachNet, along with Chinese language Internet search provider, Baidu, have entered into a multi-year collaboration agreement.

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Search Engine, Baidu, Included in HP Systems

PC manufacturer, HP, will include the Chinese search engine, Baidu, for one year beginning in October 2006. All HP Pavilion and HP Presario series computers sold within mainland China will come with the Baidu search service already enabled.

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