Martyn Williams

A United Nations University study into the environmental impact of personal computers, due to be published later Monday, has found that around 1.8 tons of raw material are required to manufacture the average desktop PC and monitor and that extending a machine's operational life through re-use holds a much greater potential for energy saving that recycling.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. lifted the lid Tuesday on its five-year-old research and development (R&D) centre in Japan and demonstrated a couple of the technologies the operator is working on, including a speech recognition system that doesn't require speech.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. has yet to decide on the shape of its future relationship with Cingular Wireless LLC should the U.S. carrier gain clearance for its proposed takeover of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., NTT DoCoMo's president said Friday. The Japanese carrier owns a 16 per cent stake in AT&T Wireless.

Fourteen Japanese consumer electronics and telecommunication companies plan to work together to hammer out networking specifications for consumer electronics devices that can access the Internet, they said Tuesday.

Sony Corp. will launch two new models in its Cli

Open Source Development Labs Inc. (OSDL), a nonprofit consortium of companies that promotes adoption of the Linux operating system, has its first Chinese member, it said Friday.

PeopleSoft Inc. has responded to Oracle Corp.'s announcement Friday that it may nominate five individuals to PeopleSoft's board of directors and call for the expansion of the board to nine members.

Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of semiconductor chip-maker Intel Corp., has invested in a Tokyo-based mobile virtual network operator that is offering nationwide fixed-price wireless access through both wireless LAN and mobile telephone networks.