The board of Hong Kong carrier Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd. yesterday gave its blessing to Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd.'s (PCCW) merger bid and agreed to pass the terms on to its shareholders for approval.
China Mobile Communications Corp. (CMCC) is kicking off trials of a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) service in six mainland cities, according to a report today on the Web site of the official People's Daily newspaper.
Mail.com Inc., a messaging vendor that owns a portfolio of domain names including usa.com, europe.com and asia.com, today announced it will form an incubator company called World.com to build e-commerce businesses.
Oracle Corp. has teamed up with a major global port operator to create an online exchange for transportation services, the companies announced in a statement yesterday.
CITIC Pacific Ltd. and Lucent Technologies Inc. are to build a high-capacity fiber-optic data network to deliver voice, data, graphics and value-added services throughout much of China.
Sina.com, operator of one of China's most popular Web portals, next month will begin offering WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) services in China through a deal with communications equipment vendor Ericsson (China) Co. Ltd., officials of the two companies said today.
Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. this week unveiled plans to play a major role in wireless Internet and multimedia services worldwide, especially in Europe.
Hong Kong's telecom regulator expects to issue four to six licenses for third-generation (3G) wireless broadband services later this year and will press carriers to adopt interoperable standards, according to a consultation paper released this week.
A decline in the stock price of Hong Kong's Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. (PCCW) has given rise to fears that its deal to buy Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd. -- the result of a high-profile battle for a major Asian telecom carrier -- may fall through.
Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. (PCCW), the Hong Kong-based Internet holding company now building a pan-Asian broadband service, yesterday posted a 1999 profit of approximately HK$346.8 million (US$44.5 million).
Mobile phone operators in Hong Kong and Singapore have successfully tested roaming between their respective GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) networks using equipment from Nokia Corp., the Finnish mobile phone maker announced yesterday.
Shanghai officials on Saturday opened the Pudong Software Park, a center for development of products for domestic use and export, according to an online report by the official China Daily newspaper.
A top executive of Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. (PCCW), the high-flying Internet holding company building the Hong Kong CyberPort, said today that Hong Kong needs to change its business culture to foster innovation.
China's government will focus on electronic commerce as the key to its global competitiveness, a high-level government official said today at a conference in Hong Kong.
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong are developing voice-recognition software that can interpret multiple languages mixed in the same sentence, the head of the school's e-commerce institute said in a speech last week.