Martyn Williams

Sony Corp. is preparing to update its mid-level Clie T-series personal digital assistant (PDA) line with a new device. Launch of a new PDA would complete a freshening up of its Clie line, which has already seen two new models, one each in its high-end and low-end series, during the first month of this year.

A three-day meeting that brought together Asian governments, organizations, companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) ended Wednesday morning with the approval of a declaration that, among other things, calls for encouraging the development of open-source software.

The Linux operating system has made the jump from computer servers to handheld computers, digital video recorders and wristwatches and soon may find a home inside your cellular telephone.

Cash-strapped British Telecommunications PLC has agreed to sell its roughly one fifth stake in Hong Kong cellular operator SmarTone Mobile Communications Ltd.

Accounting and payroll software vendor Intuit Inc. has agreed to sell its Japanese unit, Intuit KK, to a private equity investment company, it announced Tuesday.

A nationwide safety crackdown on Internet cafes in China has resulted in the temporary or permanent closure of one in three of them, a government official said last week, according to a report from the official Xinhua News Agency.

Network and communication chip maker Broadcom Corp. has paid US$24 million for patents covering wireless LAN (WLAN) and other technologies from Unova Inc. of Woodland Hills, Calif., Unova announced last week.

The technical design for a new video compression system based on the MPEG-4 standard that promises better quality digital video was agreed at a meeting in Japan, said the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).