In "Beijing 2008--The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games, " players compete as Olympic athletes in the hammer throw, table tennis and swimming.

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For example, once I was in a linguistically-complex contract negotiation with a South Korean mobile phone development office in Beijing.

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Mr Cook's comments came on a visit to Beijing to meet Chinese regulators and bosses of mobile network China Unicom.

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Nonetheless, the company boasts an 82.6% share of the market for mobile operating systems, according to Beijing-based research firm Analysys International.

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Gong Zhengjun, deputy general manager of mobile operations at Zhongxing Communications in Beijing, says his company realizes that focusing on advertising is only a temporary fix.

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To demonstrate, Otellini showed off a mobile device on a set designed to look like a Beijing street corner.

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As of last December, Beijing-based Shi has 600, 000 online registered users and 500, 000 mobile ones.

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Now the situation has a new wrinkle: the Chinese language publication Beijing Business Today is reporting that Qihoo has launched a version of its So.com search engine optimized for mobile device, according to the Marbridge Daily newsletter.

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For example, if a mobile account opened in Shanghai, and sparingly used for local calls, begins making numerous calls from Beijing to a few numbers in a distant western province, then it is likely that a phone thief is calling friends back home.

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