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• Huawei launches new budget Android phone

  Huawei today launched a new cut-price Android-based handset on Optus' network. The Huawei IDEOS X1, which will retail for $99, runs version 2.2 of Google's Android platform.

• Huawei in Aussie telco talks for Android tablet

  Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei has announced its first Android-powered tablet, the MediaPad, at a conference in Singapore, but won’t say when it’s coming to Australia or which telcos will offer the device.

• Huawei hunts out Australian chief security officer

  Huawei has begun searching for a chief security officer to be based in either Sydney, Canberra or Melbourne.

• Huawei announces Australian board

  Huawei has announced the name of the independent directors of its newly created Australian board, with former politicians Alexander Downer and John Brumby, as well as current chairperson of DMS Maritime Services, John Lord, being selected.

• Internode launches portable hotspot

  Internet service provider Internode today launched the Huawei E5832 mobile broadband modem. The E5832 can distribute a 3G connection to up to three devices over Wi-Fi.

• Huawei opens Adelaide office

  Huawei has continued its assault on the local telecoms market, setting up shop in Adelaide.
  

• Huawei announces Australian board of directors

  Huawei has moved to boost confidence in its local operations, announcing the appointment of a local board of directors; a move the company hopes will secure it further government- and NBN-related contracts.

• Chinese 'driving ICT agenda' in Africa: Wikileaks

  The latest US cable released by Wikileaks scorns Chinese ICT companies doing business in Kenya as "re-colonising Africa" with "good and cheap" equipment, even if the after-sales service is described as s***.
  

• Huawei's Ideos X5 smartphone plays 720p video

  Chinese network supplier Huawei Technologies believes it has a winner with its Ideos smartphone brand and is releasing another device under that name to the global market.

• Huawei pours $250K in RMIT for future hires

  Networking vendor Huawei has contributed $250,000 to training facilities at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) as part of its memorandum of understanding with the Victorian university.
  

• Microsoft to launch Windows Phone 7 in China in late 2011

  Microsoft plans to launch Windows Phone 7 in China in the second half of 2011.

• Telstra, Huawei score 150Mbps over LTE

  Telstra and Huawei have claimed some of the fastest downlink speeds to date using the long term evolution (LTE) fourth generation mobile standard, achieving nearly 150 megabits per second (Mbps) over the trial network.
  

• Huawei looks to enter Australian Android market

  Chinese manufacturer Huawei this week said it was talking to carriers in Australia and New Zealand about local distribution of its new IDEOS mobile phone, which runs the latest version of Google’s Android operating system.

• Huawei will give India gov't source code

  Huawei Technologies is willing to accept new Indian rules that will require telecommunication equipment suppliers to, among other conditions, give the government access to source code and engineering designs for its equipment, the company said on Thursday.

• Huawei networks with RMIT to provide broadband training

  Victoria has again topped other states in positioning itself as the centre of the country’s broadband future, this time playing host to a tie-up between Huawei and RMIT University that will see up to 500 Australians trained in networking technologies over the next three years.