Martyn Williams

North Korea's nascent software industry is about to find itself in the international spotlight for the first time when an exhibition of domestically developed software takes place in Beijing in April.

Sharp Corp. is increasing its bet that consumers will choose liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions to replace their old cathode ray tube (CRT) models by building a new LCD production plant in Japan.

Internet users in Switzerland and South Korea are among the first in the world to be able to turn to the Internet for live coverage of the Olympic Games thanks to two services, one official and one not-so-official, that are pumping images from Salt Lake City into cyberspace.

In a breakthrough that could lead to cheaper international telephone calls and Internet leased lines, engineers at Mitsubishi Electric have succeeded in sending 1.3Tbps of data down a fibre-optic cable 8,400 kilometres in length.

Anyone considering adding extra memory to a personal computer to facilitate the upgrade to Windows XP will be wishing they'd done so earlier. Computer memory prices have been rising steadily since November and have registered large jumps in the first few trading days of this year -- jumps that are quickly being reflected in retail prices.

Intel Corp.'s newest microprocessor, the next generation 2.2GHz version of its Pentium 4 chip, went on sale in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district on Thursday afternoon, ahead of its official launch date in January.

Exactly as scripted, NTT DoCoMo began operating its Foma 3G wireless service on Oct. 1, but that was one of the few things that went according to DoCoMo

As computers and other digital devices become more pervasive, the need to transfer files between machines becomes greater. Sony Corp. will on Monday join a small number of lesser-known companies with the unveiling of its Micro Vault, a stylish and cool new key chain device designed to make this task easier.