China Mobile Communications Corp., the cellular telephone operator recently spun off from China Telecom Ltd., is targeting the acquisition of 20 million new subscribers in 2000, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.
Sony Corp. today announced consolidated results for the third quarter of the current fiscal year, the period from October to December 1999.
NEC yesterday announced it has developed a new encryption technology, CipherUnicorn-A, which it claims to be the strongest in the world.
Canon Inc. has announced plans to begin selling from March the first consumer-level three-megapixel class digital still camera.
IBM Corp. gained the most U.S. patents in 1999 -- the seventh consecutive year in a row that it has held the honor, according to IFI Claims Patent Services' annual Patent Intelligence and Technology Report.
Isao Corp., the Internet service provider that offers Internet access to users of Sega Enterprises Ltd.'s Dreamcast games console, says subscriptions to its service have passed the half-million mark.
Three Japanese companies and a Singapore-based company have announced the formation of a joint venture that will focus on Internet-based business-to-business e-commerce. The Singapore-based firm, e-commerce systems provider Bex.com Pte. Ltd., will own the majority stake in the new company.
The Web sites of two Japanese government agencies were attacked by hackers in the last 24 hours, the first time such central government agencies have been attacked, said the government today.
Due to popular demand, Sony Corp. plans to sell more of its dog-like Aibo entertainment robots in Japan, Europe and North America, the company announced today.
Singapore's government announced on Friday that it plans to bring forward the start of full competition in the island nation's telecommunications market from April 1, 2002, to April 1 this year. At the same time it also announced an immediate lifting on direct and indirect foreign equity limits for all public telecommunications service licenses.
Eight affiliates of Korea's top three business groups, or chaebol, and three independent companies this Wednesday will sign an agreement to create an e-commerce alliance, an executive at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has told IDG News Service.
NTT Worldwide Telecommunications Corp. (NTT WT) launched on Sunday the first Asia-based IP (Internet Protocol) telephony clearinghouse.
NEC Corp. says it will unveil a new encryption technology on Monday that it claims to be the world's strongest.
Samsung Securities Co. Ltd., the brokerage arm of Korea's Samsung Group, has formed a partnership with AnswerThink Consulting Group Inc. on the development of a global online financial services network, AnswerThink announced this week.
Qualcomm Inc. said Thursday the Korean Industrial Property Office (KIPO) had found in its favor for the vast majority of a series of patent infringement claims brought against the company by rival Motorola Inc.