The connection between Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, China's biggest telecom equipment maker by revenue, and Italian Supercoppa (Italian Super Cup), does not only rest on the fact they share the same birth year.

Established in the southern coastal city of Shenzhen in 1987, Huawei has grown into a top-level telecom hardware giant that competes with the likes of Sweden's Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson.

Huawei Technologies Co's MediaPad is displayed yesterday at the tablet's global launch in Singapore. Huawei, China's largest phone-network equipment maker, introduced its second line of tablet computers in eight months, as the company expands its push into consumer markets.

The new MediaPad tablet with a 7-inch screen will run Google Inc's Android Honeycomb 3.2 operating system. Huawei's S7 tablet and an updated S7 Slim are already on sale in Europe and Asia.

Telecom equipment maker eyes chance to close gap with its rival

Right before Labor Day, when people are supposed to take a break, two of China's major telecom equipment makers were busy with lawsuits.

HUAWEI Technologies Co has won a United States court order to ban Motorola disclosing its intellectual property rights to Nokia Siemens Networks which hopes to buy the American firm's network business, the Shenzhen-based firm said yesterday.

In Chicago, US District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said on Tuesday that Huawei has shown a "reasonable likelihood of success" on the merits of its claim that Motorola Solutions and Nokia Siemens Networks might misappropriate trade secrets, and that "irreparable competitive harm" could result.

In January, Huawei filed the lawsuit against former partner Motorola to stop it transferring IPR to Nokia Siemens Networks, which seeks to buy Motorola's network business for US$1.2 billion.

Huawei said the acquisition deal would transfer the Chinese firm's core technologies to Nokia Siemens Networks, one of its biggest rivals globally.

Since 2000, Huawei's products have been distributed by Motorola under the latter's brand.

The success of Huawei, the China's biggest telecommunications equipment maker, in securing the court order marked the growing awareness of IPR protection in China, industry insiders said.

Nearly half of Huawei's more than 100,000 employees are involved in research and development, and the company pumps in an average of 10 percent of its total revenue to R&D annually.

Huawei is the world's No. 2 network equipment maker.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd in South China's Guangdong province confirmed on Monday that the company had participated in a phone network installation bid for the London Underground.

A senior executive of the company told Xinhua News Agency that the bid was worth some 50 million pounds ($81.1 million).

China's Huawei Technologies Co sued Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks on Monday in order to protect its intellectual property right, the company said in a press release.

The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, marks the first time Huawei has sued a US company.

Huawei said it seeks to stop the planned $1.2 billion sale of Motorola's networks business to the European company.

Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks announced their deal in July. The transaction was initially targeted to close by the end of 2010, but the companies are still waiting for approval from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce's Anti-Monopoly Bureau. Regulatory bodies in the United States, the European Union and six other countries have okayed the deal. Nokia Siemens Networks said in December that it is now aiming to close the transaction this quarter.

HUAWEI ACCRESCE INVESTIMENTI NEL MILANESE
IL COLOSSO HI-TECH APRIRÀ UNA SECONDA SEDE CON 100 ASSUNZIONI

Mani ancora più strette tra le grandi imprese private cinesi che operano nell'hi-tech e la Lombardia: la Cina potenzierà la sua presenza nella nostra regione, contando sulle professionalità formatesi all'interno delle università lombarde. Huawei Technologies, leader nel mondo nel settore della comunicazione fissa (banda larga e cablata), potenzierà il proprio investimento sul territorio lombardo, dove è già presente dal 2004 con il centro di Segrate: entro sei mesi, infatti, assumerà 100 persone e aprirà una seconda sede a Milano Lorenteggio, incrementando l'organico attuale composto da 350 dipendenti. L'annuncio è stato fatto questa mattina in occasione della visita ufficiale del presidente della Regione Lombardia Roberto Formigoni al gigantesco centro di ricerca e sviluppo di Shanghai inaugurato lo scorso primo maggio.

Dopo la sottoscrizione della lettera di intenti con il parco tecnologico di Zhangjiang avvenuta questa mattina, il Governo regionale lombardo rafforza i legami con Huawei, la multinazionale attiva dal 1988 e partner di operatori come Telecom, Vodafone e Wind.

Ad accogliere Formigoni a Shanghai il vice presidente di Huawei Technologies Wen Chu e il responsabile di Huawei Italia Renato Lombardi, ex manager della Siemens.

Huawei darà vita in Lombardia a un piano straordinario di investimenti destinato a potenziare la banda larga già presente sul nostro territorio. Lo farà puntando su figure professionali altamente specializzate, sviluppando la collaborazione con alcune università lombarde tramite il finanziamento di borse di studio.

In occasione della visita ufficiale del presidente della Regione Lombardia, Roberto Formigoni, e della sua delegazione in Cina, Huawei ha annunciato l'impegno di potenziare la banda larga di nuova generazione su tutto il territorio regionale. L'annnuncio è stato diffuso a conclusione della visita dell'onorevole Roberto Formigoni al Laboratorio di Ricerca e Sviluppo di Huawei a Shanghai, centro di eccellenza in cui si sperimentano soluzioni wireless di nuova generazione.

La regione Lombardia è considerata cruciale per le attività di innovazione e sviluppo di Huawei, come già testimoniato dall'apertura del centro d'eccellenza globale sulle tecnologie Microwave e del Core Innovation Centre a Milano. Recentemente inoltre Huawei sta investendo, grazie alla partnership con un importante operatore telefonico italiano, nella creazione di un Innovation Centre finalizzato alla ricerca e all'implementazione di tecnologie e servizi all'avanguardia.

Businesses reminded that necessity is the true mother of invention

It is hard to imagine any issue more central to Chinese enterprises today than innovation. Rising per capita incomes and wage rates will increasingly make it more difficult for Chinese companies to compete just on the basis of cost efficiency. The imperatives for a shift from a single-minded focus on cost reduction to a focus also on innovation are very strong and very clear.