Martyn Williams

Toshiba Corp. saw a return to overall profitability in the first six months of the current fiscal year on the back of 5 per cent higher sales, the Tokyo company said Friday.

Heavy cost cutting helped NEC Corp. return to profitability in the first half of the current financial year, the period from April to September, despite a drop in sales, the company said Friday.

Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Computer Corp., has outlined plans to increase his company's activities in new markets with an eye to making total sales in those areas equal to those in its core personal computer sales market.

Users can expect to see the processing speed of Intel Corp.'s desktop processors hit 15GHz and that of wireless device and PDA (personal digital assistant) processors hit 5GHz by 2010, the chip maker's chief technology officer said in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. is preparing a series of iPaq PDAs (personal digital assistants) with a built-in fingerprint scanner and WLAN (wireless LAN) support, according to documents filed by the product's maker with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Intel Corp. will unveil its latest microprocessor aimed at cellular telephones and PDAs (personal digital assistants) on Tuesday next week, the company said Wednesday.

With the entire video industry now centred around digital video, Japan

Sharp Corp. is giving visitors to the Ceatec 2002 exhibition a first look at what is likely to be a new high-end member of its Zaurus PDA (personal digital assistant) family.