Martyn Williams

NEC Corp. is planning to enter the radio frequency identification (RFID) business this year and is currently in the final stages of developing its own RFID chip, it said Friday.

China Airlines Ltd. has become the latest Asian carrier to signal that it intends to equip its aircraft with a broadband Internet system supplied by The Boeing Co., the latter company said Monday.

IBM Corp.'s Korean subsidiary has dismissed several employees including an executive following their indictment by public prosecutors investigating the use of bribery to secure government contracts, the company said Monday.

Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. has signed a deal with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) to transfer advanced chip-making technology to the Chinese company and outsource some dynamic RAM (DRAM) production, it said Thursday.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. and three other companies that together owned almost 59 per cent of America Online Inc.'s Japanese unit have sold their stakes to the U.S. Internet service provider, they said Wednesday. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

Yahoo Inc.'s Hong Kong unit has signed a deal to acquire a Hong Kong company that develops software and systems intended to make using the Internet easier for Chinese language speakers.

Three major IT industry associations from China, Japan and South Korea agreed Friday to work together to push regional development of open-source software and lobby their governments to use it.

Three major IT industry associations from China, Japan and South Korea agreed Friday to work together to push regional development of open-source software and lobby their governments to use it.