David Legard

Chief information officers (CIOs) who want to succeed at their jobs must see that an IT culture permeates their companies, according to Dane Anderson, vice president of consulting and research at IDC Asia-Pacific.

Wireless LAN (WLAN) services are beginning to achieve growth in the Asia-Pacific region after two years of struggling to be accepted, according to research firm Gartner Inc.'s Dataquest unit.

Spending on bio-IT products within China

Worldwide IT spending will grow four per cent in 2003, rebounding from growth of just one per cent in 2002, according to research released Thursday by market analysis company Aberdeen Group.

Viruses, spam and malicious Internet scams transmitted by e-mail all grew sharply in 2002, posing a threat to the smooth running of worldwide e-mail systems, according to security vendor MessageLabs Ltd.

Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), the vendor of the popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, has lost a court case brought by a company called NTP Inc. which alleged that RIM's products and services infringed on NTP patents. RIM said in a statement that it will challenge the verdict.

Vladimir Kramnik, world chess champion, and the team behind chess computer Deep Fritz 7 said they would be happy to stage a replay after the human versus computer chess match ended in a 4-4 tie early in October, the organizers said on their Web site.

Global telecommunications revenue are growing at 6 per cent per year and will rise from around US$1 trillion this year to $1.3 trillion in 2007, according to a report to be published next week by Pyramid Research Inc.