Beijing Implements New Traffic Law
On Monday, Beijing implemented a new traffic law on a trial basis, which will take 800,000 cars off the street each day. Under the new rule, cars with number plates ending in one or six will be off the roads on Mondays, while those ending with two or seven on Tuesdays, three or eight on Wednesdays, four or nine Thursdays and five or zero on Fridays. The ban does not apply on weekends. The trial will run until for six months until 10 April 2009.
Trapeze Wins Hangzhou WiFi Contract
California-based Trapeze Inc. has won a contract to build the WiFi
metropolitan area network in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province,
news wires report. The company will deploy more than 3,000 access
points in the city, and manage half of the WiFi products, solutions and
services in cooperation with Comnet. Trapeze also announced it will set
up its second Chinese R&D centre in Hangzhou, employing 50
engineers in its initial phase.