David Legard

Worldwide semiconductor revenue will fall 26 per cent this year to US$168.1 billion from last year's figure of US$226 billion, according to a report released Friday by analyst Gartner Inc.

The strong growth in the number of Internet subscribers in Asia-Pacific will see the region overtake the United States as the largest Internet subscriber market by 2003, according to research released Monday by Gartner Inc.

Information and communication technology (ICT) can be a major force in helping poor countries reduce poverty, according to a recent report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Authoritarian governments in several countries have disproved the widely held belief that the Internet is an inevitable force for promoting transparency and political pluralism, according to a study released Tuesday by the Washington D.C.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP).

Information and communication technology (ICT) can be a major force in helping poor countries reduce poverty, according to a report issued Wednesday by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Worldwide IT spending between 2001 and 2003 could be US$150 billion lower than earlier forecasts if the U.S. economic slowdown spreads to Europe, according to market analyst International Data Corp. (IDC).

A radical new way of encoding digital bits into analog waves for transmission can operate several hundred times faster than current modulation/demodulation technologies, according to Singapore inventor Cellonics Pte. Ltd.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has urged Muslim countries worldwide to cooperate on technological advances which will help shield their citizens from the negative aspects of globalization and free information flow.