Foreign companies this week are setting their sights on China's fast-growing Internet services business, amid reports that the government will legalize outside investment in the industry as early as this quarter.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday named David Farber, currently a telecommunications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, as its chief technologist.
You may soon be able to get paid for looking at online advertising if Hong Kong-based AdsHouse.com has anything to say about it.
Hong Kong is setting up its red-hot mobile communications market for broadband, with licenses for third-generation (3G) services scheduled to be issued late this year, the government confirmed today.
In their first regular business day of operation since the Year 2000 rollover, the engines of Hong Kong's economy were reported running smoothly, unaffected by four apparently minor problems that hit local government agencies.
In their first regular business day of operation since the Year 2000 rollover, the engines of Hong Kong's economy were reported running smoothly, unaffected by four apparently minor problems that hit local government agencies.
Motorola has announced a deal that will let the company tap in to the burgeoning brainpower of China's academic community to develop third-generation (3G) mobile data technology.
New T&T Hong Kong has gained access to China Telecom's fibre-optic network in Mainland China, opening up new services opportunities for one of Hong Kong's aggressive carriers.
Global Crossing, Microsoft and Softbank announced Friday they have completed a joint venture that will build high-speed network pipes to link several Asian countries.
Cisco Systems' acquisition of wireless LAN (local area network) vendor Aironet Wireless Communications, announced earlier this month, may change the face of the market by putting enterprises' and home users' data on the air.
Voice over IP holds the promise of slashed long-distance bills and flexible future services, but service quality and security concerns may be holding users back from adopting it, according to participants and users at a Comdex panel discussion here yesterday.
The discussion drew nearly a full house of hundreds of users - most of them IS managers - who heard an industry analyst and a service provider executive examine the pros and cons of voice over IP (VOIP).
Several large makers of telecommunications equipment and start-ups last month geared up to supply tomorrow's high-speed carrier networks, and Lucent led the way with a major acquisition.
Options for service-level management will grow this month, with 3Com and two other companies detailing software upgrades to monitor network application performance.
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology got a recent boost from several major network vendors who announced progress towards high-powered, multivendor DSL infrastructures.
Remote-access hardware and software coming later this year from Nortel Networks will bring combined voice and data connectivity to small organisations as well as large companies.