Martyn Williams

The number of Internet-related crimes in Japan in the first six months of this year hit a record high, according to data issued Thursday by the National Police Agency.

Faulty batteries like those that caused Dell Inc. to initiate a huge recall this week could be present in laptops from other companies and other portable electronics products.

Sony Corp. will soon start selling a small GPS (global positioning system) unit that can be used to add location information to digital pictures.

SanDisk Corp. will acquire competing flash memory developer M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. for US$1.6 billion, the two companies said late Sunday.

Forget flowers. A Japanese company is offering people the chance to say "I love you" with a personal satellite.

A Japanese court has ruled that overwork pushed a 28-year-old Fujitsu Ltd. software developer to commit suicide. The worker killed himself in a company-supplied dormitory in March 2002 shortly after completing a project, according to local news reports that quoted a lawyer for his family.

World Bank Group head Paul Wolfowitz Monday called for increased investment and involvement in development projects targeting poverty in Africa with more bucks for Internet and telco infrastructure.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. started 2005 well and is on the road to achieving its goal of a 20 percent slice of the server market this year, a senior executive said Wednesday.