Martyn Williams

IBM Corp. is to partner with the South Korean government and establish a research and development laboratory in Seoul that will concentrate on software for mobile communications devices and telematics applications.

Sony Corp. plans to cut 20,000 jobs, about 13 per cent of its worldwide workforce, and push for greater convergence between its electronics, games and entertainment content over the next three years as part of a reorganization recently detailed by the company.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Don Evans will arrive in China Sunday on a four-day trip during which he will meet with Chinese officials to discuss trade, including several technology-related items, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Thursday.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. are planning to set up a trial base station for NTT's Foma third generation (3G) cellular service in Paris in November this year as part of their efforts to promote 3G technology, the two companies said Friday.

Subscriptions to NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s Foma third-generation (3G) mobile telephone network hit the one million mark on Tuesday, the company said Wednesday.

A satellite designed to offer two-way high-speed Internet service across all of Europe was launched late Saturday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket

Microsoft Corp. and its Japanese subsidiary are to begin working with the group behind an operating system used in most Japanese cellular telephones to allow that OS and Windows CE .Net to coexist on devices, the parties said Thursday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a prototype flash memory chip that has a capacity equal to the company's current largest commercial flash memory but at a smaller physical size, it said Monday.