Martyn Williams

Japan's mobile data sector is coming of age. What started with Hello Kitty screen savers and downloadable ringer tones is now becoming workgroup server access from a cellphone screen.

Micron Technology Inc. is walking away from further negotiations with Hynix Semiconductor Inc. after a deal between the two collapsed earlier this week.

The poor global economic situation, a slowdown in the IT sector and increased competition from foreign rivals led all but one of Japan's major electronics companies to report lower sales and losses for the previous fiscal year, which ended on March 31, they said in earnings reports released on Thursday and Friday.

NTT Communications Corp. plans to launch a commercial wireless LAN service in Tokyo from the middle of May, the company said Thursday.

Toshiba has unveiled two new models in its Libretto sub-notebook line. Both are based on an 800MHz version of the TM5800 Crusoe processor from Transmeta.

The director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has criticized the Chinese government for inaction over continuing intellectual property (IP) theft in the country.

Samsung Electronics has unveiled the company

A supercomputer used to analyze global climate change at a Japanese government research institute has stolen the title of fastest computer in the world from a machine at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the U.S.