Martyn Williams

China's telecommunications minister has said the country has no timetable for the introduction of third-generation (3G) cellular telephone services and will wait until both technology and applications have matured before allowing carriers to introduce such services.

The latest version of the standard set of technologies for Java-capable mobile devices has been finalized and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced at Telecom Asia 2002 on Monday the availability of the finished specification, a reference implementation, test suite and a beta version of a development toolkit.

China had 54.4 million Internet users at the end of September, according to a speech delivered by a senior government official at a national Internet conference on Monday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Firm's A830 cellular handset took another step closer to wide availability this week with approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Hitachi Ltd. launched a range of desktop computers on Monday with internal wireless LAN modems that support the IEEE 802.11a standard, the company said, claiming a world first for such products.

Sharp Corp. will unveil at least two new PDAs (personal digital assistants) based on the Linux operating system next week, the company said Thursday.

IBM Corp. says an enhancement to its 'Pixie Dust' technology has enabled it to break the current storage density record for hard disk drives and to produce the highest capacity mobile hard disk drive yet.

The launch of the Tablet PC marks a second attempt by Microsoft Corp. to popularize pen computing, but to the 140 researchers and staff at Microsoft