Fight telephone launch Apple store in Beijing (AP)

BEIJING - a fight broke out between an employee and a customer in a store Apple in the Chinese capital in a frenzy to buy the white iPhone newly launched 4, said a witness.

Thirty years Wang Ming said fight Saturday at the Apple store in the district of Sanlitun in Beijing between a staff member of the Apple "abroad" and a Chinese client.

A spokesman for Apple in China, Carolyn Wu, said the store "has been closed for several hours Saturday after a group outside the store became turbulent."

"The team store acted to protect their needs and those of our customers by closing doors and preventing the group from entering in", Wu told Associated Press on Monday. "The security of our customers and our employees is our priority." It would provide no more details.

Some Chinese news sites reports said three or four customers were injured. Wang said he had travelled out of the store and passed through the fight when a bottle hit his head, causing a Gash.

The application for the iPhone and iPad in China has been high. There are problems in the past in cahoots buy iPhone for resale at a higher price.

In January, Apple released the results of holiday-quarter showing that 321 Apple stores around the world, on average in the higher clocked China and revenue per store. Most of the revenues came from iPhone and iPad sales.

The company based in Cupertino, California, then stated that quarterly revenue of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan totalled $ 2.6 billion, or about 10% of its total revenue and four times the previous year figure.

Four wounded in iPad fight Beijing Apple store

BEIJING- four people were taken to the hospital and a glass door broken as a riot breaks out in store Apple high in Beijing among the crowds rushing to align the 2 popular iPad tablet computer, according to the press of the State.

Angry consumers began to rush the store on Saturday afternoon after an Apple employee "abroad" would have been in the crowd to push and beat those suspected of queue jumping, said the Beijing News.

After the employee fell in the store, a crowd of consumers smashed the door glass entrance and shoved the security guards as they sweeps forward in anger on the alleged beating, said the report.

Consumers successive hours in Apple stores in Beijing and Shanghai since the iPad 2, the update of the Tablet PC version, is on sale in the largest Internet market of the world Friday.

The store chic shopping district Beijing Sanlitun closed Saturday early in the altercation, but according to a registration on telephone voice store was open for business Sunday.

Apple officials were not immediately available for comments when he phoned to AFP.

Police were an investigation into the incident and interviewed four people hospitalized with injuries, said the Beijing News.

Lines for the iPad popular 2 have increased as a long time that people started their place in the queue, sale, while a secondary market has also developed with consumers resell their lucrative tablet computers after leaving the storethe report said.

Late Saturday, the store posted a notice saying that jump the queue and unauthorized products Apple sales does would be tolerated, said the paper.

Facebook, Google would fight for Skype (NewsFactor)

Facebook and Google have more crossed on in the other turf online. Now the giants of the Internet can be a war again - for Skype.

According to an exclusive Reuters report, Facebook and Google compete ink an agreement with Skype in the wake of initial public offering of the web conferencing service delay. The BPI has been defined for the first half of 2011 but has been pushed until later in the year.

Reuters sources say that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been "internal discussion" on the alignment of Skype. Other anonymous sources say that Facebook hopes to form a joint venture with Skype. Google is reportedly also trying to work out the terms on a joint venture.

Skype, Google and Facebook immediately could not be reached for comment. Skype is owned by a group of investors led by Silver Lake and includes eBay, Joltid Limited, founders of Skype Niklas Zennstr?m and Janus Friis, Andreessen Horowitz and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

The price is a problem

Skype has a huge global installed base of users and a complete VoIP telephony infrastructure. It could be easily deployed by Facebook or Google, that Google already has most of the same property, according to Greg Sterling, senior analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence.

"There is a very good fit with Facebook, and may provide assets that the company has not already, so that a couple of potential new revenue streams," Sterling said.

"The question would be the purchase price", he added. "But it is not inconceivable that Skype could work with both in a capacity of joint-venture.". But given the rivalry between Google and Facebook, I would be skeptical that would occur. ?

Development of the Skype

All this may seem familiar to Skype, which was founded in 2003. eBay acquired the then nascent society in 2005 for an exorbitant sum 2.6 billion in stock, cash and eBay, more potential performance-based consideration. The acquisition was supposed to strengthen on the world market of eBay and payments platform, while opening several new sectors and create significant new opportunities for monetization of the company.

It didn't work so well. In April 2009, eBay announced that it spin off of the Internet VoIP telephony and make an initial public offer during the first half of 2010, after having decided that Skype had limited synergies with eBay and its PayPal subsidiary. The company spent a year assessment Skype and its potential within the portfolio of eBay before deciding that a spin-off has been the best choice.

Skype has evolved since eBay released. Acquired Skype Qik, a business of software for mobile video and in March, has launched a new iPhone application called Qik video to connect. The new app allows people launch video telephony, video mail and video-sharing. In March, Skype also announced the launch of advertising in the Skype software. Ads now appear in the home of Skype for Windows tab.

Back in February, Skype has announced a program mobile partner for operators on the markets with low penetration of 3 G Broadband and has launched a partnership program of hot spot with the main suppliers of Wi - Fi.

Chinese tech giants fight against more than 4 G phones

BEIJING - two of the largest companies of China technology launched a legal battle on mobile patents in an unusual public clash between companies in Europe, that promoted Beijing as national champions.

The struggle between Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp., highlights the challenge to the Communist leaders who need to manage ambitions of Chinese companies as they try to create global competitors in telecoms, energy and other areas. It is the first case of its kind between large Chinese companies, which generally resolve disputes in private.

"We will see this more in this industry and others," said David Wolf, a Beijing technology marketing consultant. "The Government will find, wow, we have national champions, but now they are trying to kill each other".

The dispute focuses on fourth generation mobile technology, which, according to the companies that developed it deliver more stable connections, broadband wireless and other advances. It is used in the United States and also tested.

Control of the key patents could help decide what equipment suppliers are positioned to reap billions of dollars in sales, once it is deployed in other markets.

Huawei and ZTE make network of fishing gear, the heart of telephone systems. They have annual sales of several billion dollars in China, Africa and Latin America and as the 4 G world leaders potentials. That integrates with the Communist Party hopes to transform China from a factory of low-cost in a creator of cost-effective technology.

Huawei has announced the week last that it commenced trials of patent infringement against ZTE France, Germany and the Hungary. ZTE dismissed the claims and said that he asked a court to French and Chinese regulators to invalidate a patent of Huawei.

Huawei and ZTE are among the first wave of China multinational emerging. They compete with Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent and have a small but growing presence of Americans and Europeans.

Their dispute recently in complaints filed by groups of foreign companies on industrial policy in Beijing for mounting. They say China improperly supports favored companies by limiting access and providing low-cost loans and other forms of market support.

The prosecution of Huawei accuse ZTE for infringement of patents for maps data and improperly using a trademark registered for Huawei on some of its products.

"We will do all what is necessary to ensure that the use of the intellectual property of Huawei by any company is based on internationally accepted and practical protocols" legal officer of Huawei, song Liuping, said in a statement.

ZTE said that her accused Huawei for its 4 G patent infringement suit. The company said that also, he asked a French Court and State Intellectual Property Office China to invalidate the patents of Huawei for a rotating USB connector that is used to Exchange data between devices.

"ZTE respects the rights of intellectual property of other companies, but it will not cease to protect its own intellectual property rights, said a statement by the company."

Huawei, founded in 1987 by a former Chinese military engineer, has 110,000 employees and reported revenues of 2010 of 182 billion yuan (28 billion dollars). ZTE, founded in 1985, has 70,000 workers and reported revenues of 70 billion yuan ($10.8 billion) 2010.

Their status as leaders in the industry gives two high-level political influence. But Chinese leaders want to success - one possible reason for an impasse and the decision to go to court.

An impartial decision by a European Court could also add to the appeal of the winner to potential customers by strengthening its status as a creator of the technology, rather than as a tool of the policy of China.

"They are a presentation interesting by the filing of such proceedings not in the Chinese courts but abroad, because the Chinese courts is perceived as very political, and they want this question obviously decided on the legal merits," said WolfGeneral Manager of Wolf Group Asia.

Huawei and ZTE are unusual among Chinese large corporations because they are competing directly with each other, offering similar products in the same markets.

Authorities want potential global companies of China to focus their competitive energies on foreign rivals have tried to push the clashes in other industries, by assigning different markets or products to individual companies.

In aerospace, a plan to create a plane homegrown compete with Co. Boeing and Airbus Industrie is assigned to a Crown Corporation as a potential rival said to develop a smaller regional jet instead.

Huawei has suffered setbacks that he seeks to extend to the United States. He was forced in February to relax its acquisition of 3Leaf systems, a manufacturer of cloud computing technology, after he failed to win approval of a security U.S. Committee.

In another case, Huawei has won an order of the Court temporarily blocked the sale of network business of Motorola Solutions Inc. to compete with Nokia Siemens Networks. Huawei, said that the deal might reveal secrets of business because that Motorola sold hardware Huawei. Motorola moved with Huawei for an undisclosed amount.

Also this month, said Ericsson he brought a lawsuit against ZTE in Britain, Germany and Italy, accusing the company of the combined technology and network for patent infringement. The Swedish company has asked the courts to block ZTE from the sale of mobile phones containing the disputed technology and some network products.