
Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba plans to roll out a new mobile phone OS, dubbed Aliyun OS, inside a phone and tablet for the Chinese market.The OS will debut inside a phone and tablet from Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment Co., specifically the K-Touch Cloud-Smart Phone W700, the company said in a statement. Alibaba's operating system makes use of "cloud-based" services, including e-mail, Internet search, weather updates and GPS and mapping applications, the company said. The OS will apparently require users to be constantly connected to take advantage of its Web-based apps, instead of designing applications that can run...