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Evesham Technology Ltd. and Tranquil PC Ltd. have built computers that use Taipei-based Via Technologies Inc.'s C-7D processor, which promises to reduce the environmental impact of PCs. Evesham, England-based Evesham's […]

Hutchison Essar Ltd., a provider of wireless telecommunications services, has signed an agreement to sell Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry technology in India. Mumbai-based Hutchison will offer BlackBerry handsets and […]

INTEL CORP. plans to invest $40 million (U.S.) in Neusoft Group Ltd. as part of a deal that calls for the Shenyang-based software vendor to optimize its products for systems […]

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. last week named Chua Sock Koong to succeed outgoing group CEO Lee Hsien Yang, effective next April. Chua currently is CEO of SingTel's international operations and group […]

BT Group PLC has awarded ZTE Corp., a telecommunications equipment maker in Shenzhen, China, a contract to develop mobile handsets. The deal calls for ZTE to develop third-generation handsets that […]

Infineon Technologies AG has opened its first chip plant in Asia, a facility in Kulim, Malaysia, that cost about $1 billion (U.S.) to build. The plant will produce power and […]

THE INFOCOMM Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has started testing a free wireless Internet service in advance of this month's annual joint meeting of the boards of governors of the […]

INTEL CORP. has agreed to help Vietnam's Communist Party move its computers to open-source software. Under a memorandum of understanding, Intel will help the party's Central Committee for Science and […]

TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR Manufacturing Co. has accused Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. of breaking the terms of a January 2005 settlement agreement that ended a patent infringement lawsuit filed in a U.S. […]

ASIAN COUNTRIES are playing a bigger role in the development of new technologies, and the region's importance as an R & D center will continue to grow, said one of […]

LENOVO GROUP Ltd. plans to unite its customer service operations under a new group that will be based in Singapore and led by yet another executive poached from Dell Inc. […]

AS PRESIDENT and CEO of SAP AG's Northern Asia operations, Klaus Zimmer has overseen the company's Chinese business since 1997. Today, China's economy is booming. State-owned companies have tossed aside […]

A COURT HERE agreed this month to hear a class-action lawsuit brought by customers of Dell Inc. who claim that the company shipped them laptop PCs without promised high-performance processors. […]

GOOGLE INC.'S free weblog service is once again accessible in China without the use of a proxy server, indicating that the Chinese government has lifted its apparent blocking of the […]

Secondary displays have never really caught on with notebook makers, largely because of the added software work required to support the interface. But that could be set to change with […]

INTEL CORP. last week said that operations at its processor design center here had yet to be disrupted by the rockets being fired into the port city as part of […]

George Samenuk, chairman and CEO of McAfee Inc., says he isn't losing any sleep over Microsoft Corp.'s impending unveiling of Windows Live OneCare, a set of software and services designed […]

McAfee Inc., in an effort to boost sales of its security software in China, has signed on two new resellers in that country. McAfee announced deals with Beijing-based search engine […]

SINGAPORE OFFICIALS last week announced plans to spend 2 billion Singapore dollars ($1.3 billion U.S.) to overhaul the country's e-government systems in order to provide citizens with easier online access […]

MICROSOFT CORP. has agreed to help China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) build several research and development centers in an effort to boost economic development in China's rural areas. Under […]

Dell Inc. CEO Kevin Rollins earlier this month attended the opening of a computer lab at a school for the children of migrant workers in Beijing. The lab has 38 […]

THE FIRING of a prominent academic official here this month for faking the development of a well-known chip family is an embarrassing setback for the Chinese government, which views high-tech […]

The plans of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Next-Generation National Broadband Network are presented.

Western media was abuzz in March with reports that China plans to create a set of Chinese-language domain names in a bid to split China off from the Internet. There […]

China United Telecommunications Corp., the second-largest mobile network operator in China, has introduced a push e-mail service called RedBerry--a name that echoes Research In Motion Ltd.'s (RIM) popular BlackBerry service. […]

HUTCHISON GLOBAL Communications (HGC) Holdings Ltd. has launched an Ethernet service that connects Hong Kong with Beijing and China's Guangdong province, in an attempt to meet growing corporate demand for […]

IN ADVANCE of the Chinese government's mandate regarding the use of licensed operating systems, two computer makers in China promised to distribute only licensed versions of Windows under new agreements […]

TECHNOLOGY POLICIES that limit foreign companies' access to China raise doubts about the Chinese government's commitment to World Trade Organization guidelines, according to a global report on trade barriers issued […]

AN EXECUTIVE at Unisys Corp. said this month that a new software development and outsourcing services center in Shanghai is the start of an effort to expand the Blue Bell, […]

NTT COMMUNICATIONS CORP. has extended to China a service that's designed to prevent sensitive corporate information from being accidentally leaked to outsiders. The service, which is offered alongside the Tokyo-based […]

Research In Motion Ltd. confirmed last week that it is in talks with Beijing-based China Mobile Communications Corp. about launching its BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in China. No timetable has […]

THE SINGAPORE Police Force has charged PDM International Pte. Ltd., an interior design company, with using 51 copies of pirated software from Adobe Systems Inc., Autodesk Inc. and Microsoft Corp. […]

CHINA'S Ministry of Information Industry (MII) is starting to work to achieve the IT goals set out in the country's 11th five-year plan, which was approved last week by the […]

Oracle Corp. said it plans to set up a business unit in the Asia-Pacific region that will focus on embedding the company's software in home appliances and other products. Developers […]

INVESTIGATORS FROM South Korea's Fair Trade Commission paid an unscheduled visit to Intel Corp.'s offices in Seoul early this month, seeking additional documents as part of an ongoing investigation into […]

Turbolinux Inc. in Tokyo plans to create a joint venture with New Delhi-based India Action Plan Co. in an effort to expand its presence in India. Turbolinux India Pte. will […]

Asianux, a consortium of Linux vendors, will set up a joint-venture company this year to promote and further develop its version of the open-source operating system, according to an executive […]

Free Standards Group Inc., a nonprofit group that promotes standards for open-source software, has opened a lab in Beijing to certify that Linux applications developed in China meet the Linux […]

ROBERT TSAO and John Hsuan, who until last week were two of the top executives at United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), have been indicted in Taiwan over alleged illegal investments in […]

TAIPEI, TAIWAN THE VALUE of IT hardware products built in Taiwan grew by an estimated 10.5% during 2005, to $77 billion U.S., and it is expected to increase by an […]

AMD last week announced the opening of a research and development facility in Seoul and said it hopes the center will boost its business with electronics makers in South Korea. […]

China.com Inc. has promoted Albert Lam to CEO, replacing Rudy Chan, who is leaving the company. Lam had been China.com's president and chief operating officer and was CEO of its […]

Shenzhen Chuanghui Electronics Co. in Shenzhen, China, is openly selling relabeled Intel processors through at least two Chinese Web sites. Chuanghui describes the relabeled chips as Celeron processors that have […]

ZTE Corp., a Shenzhen-based telecommunications equipment maker, said it has won a contract to build a 25,000km optical network for China Mobile Communications Corp. in Beijing. Financial details weren't disclosed. […]

China should expand and improve its use of IT to help further the country's economic and social development, a Chinese official told attendees at the China Computerworld CEO & CIO […]

RELABELED VERSIONS of Intel Corp.'s Pentium M mobile processors are being circulated in China by unauthorized distributors trying to pass them off as chips with better performance and higher prices. […]

Sohu.com Inc., a Beijing-based Internet portal operator, last week said it has been named the official sponsor of Internet content services for the 2008 Olympic Summer Games. Sohu has built […]

Lenovo Group Ltd., citing growth in Asian markets, said its second-quarter profits totaled HK$354 million ($43.8 million), topping a consensus forecast of HK$300 million ($37.1 million) issued by Thomson One […]

THE PEOPLE'S BANK OF CHINA, which sets that country's monetary policy and regulates parts of its banking industry, has issued a set of guidelines capping the amount that individuals can […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has licensed the core technology in its Geode microprocessor to Beijing University and China's Ministry of Science and Technology. The two organizations plan to use the […]