TOKYO (10/19/2003) - A report due to be presented to national leaders attending the APEC Thailand 2003 summit in Bangkok this week proposes strengthening regulation of optical disc production facilities as a way of reducing piracy.
TOKYO (09/22/2003) - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has asked Verisign Inc. to suspend its new Site Finder service while it conducts an investigation into the system.
The Sobig.F worm, which is estimated to have infected more than 100,000 computers and generated tens of millions of e-mails, could have begun life disguised as a pornographic picture in a posting to a handful of Usenet newsgroups.
Just over 60 million people in Japan, or roughly four out of every five people who own a cellular telephone, are now signed up for mobile internet services, according to data just released.
An Internet routing error by AT&T Corp. effectively shut off access from around 40 percent of the Internet to several major Microsoft Web sites and services on Thursday, Microsoft has said.
The just-concluded FIFA World Cup provided the excuse thousands of people needed to go out and buy a large-screen, flat-panel television set, according to data released by the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA).
Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off the latest prototypes of Mira mobile monitors at the Computex Taipei exhibition, which opened here Monday.
Telecommunication regulators in the US need to do more to ensure uniformity in pricing of unbundled services, and substantially increase penalties to providers for refusing to offer such services to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) and others, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in its annual Economic Survey of the US.
As computers and other digital devices become more pervasive, the need to transfer files between machines becomes greater. Sony Corp. on Monday joined a small number of lesser-known companies with the unveiling of its Micro Vault, a stylish and cool new keychain device designed to make this task easier.
Stock markets across Asia fell sharply in the opening minutes of trading Wednesday in the wake of several apparent major terrorist attacks in the U.S. After U.S. bourses stayed closed all day Tuesday, Asia provided the first major reaction to the incidents from the world financial markets.
After finding itself on the receiving end of legal action Friday, Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. blasted back at rival Intel Corp. Monday, filing lawsuits of its own alleging patent infringement, fair trade law violations and destruction of Via property.
Trials will last for three months at two cafes
Almost 40,000 layoffs in total
Plans in pipeline to sell the hard disk drive overseas, but no date
Service to launch commercially in August