中国移动的飞信当然是个非常棒的应用。作为一个用户，使用它可以非常方便地和手机用户聊天，更为重要的是可以免费的聊天。考虑到现在美国，跨国短信的高昂资费，飞信更是开机必备，呵呵。在使用了一段时间后，和其它类似的产品比较，飞信还有很多值得提高的地方。它山之石，可以攻玉。下面这些开发建议供移动的朋友们，尤其是参与飞信开发或策划的朋友们参考。
1 更为方便的用户导入导出、好友添加功能。当前每次添加好友，都感觉不是太方便。界面上的布局和功能按钮等还需要优化提高。 不知为什么，飞信在这里设置了很多用户限制，添加用户时的消息定制不太友好，LinkedIn的用户邀请可以值得学习。在好友发现、通信本管理上，Skype的做法值得飞信借鉴学习。 Read more…
From insiders, the largest mobile carrier – China Mobile has got the first 3G license at China. Surely, it’s TD-SCDMA. It’s said that this betrays the determination of China government to respect the self intellectual property and encourage China enterprises to develop their own technologies.
TD-SCDMA is one of the three major 3G international standards, submitted by China enterprises.
It’s reported that China Telecom will get CDMA2000 and China Unicom will get WCDMA soon.
转帖中国移动Labs张为民先生的趣文 – 云计算漫谈之“云之初，本无奈”。这篇文章亦庄亦谐，有历史有技术，值得一看。下面是转帖的原文。
现在这世界上有两个词特别流行，一个是减肥，一个是云计算。呵呵，至少在我的世界里，这些词是热频。我一吃饭，就有人说减肥，我一上班，就老听见云计算。开始我还说呢，我是一特例，后来参加各种技术会议，听到的还是这三字儿：“云计算”。 Read more…
After years of rumors, the final picture of China telco re-org got announced today. It’s somewhat the same as the gossip inside the circle.
China Netcom(CNC) will be merged into China Unicom to be the new China Unicom. Meanwhile, The “C” and “G” networks of China Unicom will be splitted, while the “C” part will be merged into China Telecom. China Railcom (CRC) will be merged into China Mobile(CMCC).
The executives of the new companies are also mentioned:
This re-grouping is interlocked with the 3G licenses. It’s said that the new CMCC will get TD-SCDMA, while new CUC will get WCDMA, and CT will get CDMA2000.
It’s interesting to watch back to what I summarized the evolvement of China telecommunication industry in the past 10 years.
China has adopted WAPI as its national wireless access standard in 2003, instead of 802.11i, which lead to furious debate at that time. 3 years passed. According to a report by Xinhua agency, the largest mobile operator in China – China Mobile has conducted a security testing to 802.11i and found security vulnerabilities in it.
Test results to date show that the current WLAN technology 802.11i has big security loopholes and is easy to attack, said Ma Benteng, senior engineer with China Mobile.
The Beijing Olympics will be the first to use WLAN in the Games’ history. Journalists would be major users of the networks.
At a meeting held by China Mobile recently, media users were skeptical about the safety of the current WLAN technology.
Results from more than a month of tests carried out by the national safety research center on information project show that 802.11i has serious technological defects and safety risks, said Ma, who is in charge of mobile planning for the 2008 Olympics.
Researchers said that articles on the technological defects of 802.11i were freely available on the internet, as well as tools for exploiting the defects. The internet also provides methods for decoding the technology.
Anybody who can connect to the Internet could download the software and steal private information from others, said Ma.
See the original report…
1994 is a special year for telecom enterprises at China. Before that year, telecom is a function of the state government, no commercial services and operations. At that year, China Telecom was split off into an enterprise to provide all-telecom-services to the whole country. And at that year, China Unicom was founded to lead in market competition.
2nd year of milestone is 1997. At that year, China Telecom was further split into two parts: China Posts and China Telecom. And at that year, I graduated from Peking University and began to work for China Telecom, Data Communiction Bureau (DCB).
3rd year worthy of attention is 1999, when China Mobile was spin off to a stand alone company. Telecom industry entered into a new era. (BTW, I left DCB at 2000 to find my fortune).
4th year to be mentioned is 2002, when China Telecom was further splitted into two parts: China Netcom (10 provinces at north china) and China Telecom (21 provinces at South China). (Right click to “view image” to see the clearer picture)
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