David Legard

Oracle Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison has asked to be allowed to talk to the board and shareholders of PeopleSoft Inc., the software company for which Oracle made a hostile bid late last week. Ellison also asked PeopleSoft not to make good its threat to begin litigation against Oracle.

Sales of personal digital assistants (PDAs) in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) region fell by 22 per cent in the first quarter of 2003 mainly due to a slump in demand for these products in China, according to research released Wednesday by Gartner Inc.

Effects related to the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) will knock US$1 billion off the overall IT market in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) for 2003, according to research released Friday by IDC.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced Wednesday its formal policy for ensuring that key Web technologies, even if patented, are made available on a royalty-free basis.

PC sales in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) region reached 5.4 million units for the first quarter of 2003, 5.2 per cent higher than in the same quarter last year, according to figures released Friday by Gartner Inc.

The amount of information transmitted globally over the Internet will continue to double each year over the...

A consortium of online marketers called the E-mail Service Provider Coalition (ESPC) is planning to set up a registry-based system for transmitting e-mail which it hopes will eradicate spam by holding senders accountable for the mail they send.

Spending on IT in Singapore fell 7.8 per cent in 2002 compared with 2001, and the outlook for this year shows only a modest rebound, according to figures released Monday by IDC.