Martyn Williams

IBM Corp., NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Fujitsu Ltd. announced plans Wednesday to begin working together on strengthening the Linux operating system.

For the last couple of years cell phone handset makers have been promising a new generation of telephones that offer video conferencing, high speed data and a host of other space-age functions that will supposedly make our lives better.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will begin mass production later this year of its fastest consumer computer memory chip yet, the Seoul-based company said Thursday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has taken the wraps off three Rambus DRAM (dynamic random access memory) memory modules targeted at specific markets.

Shipments of smart handheld computers in Japan in 2000 increased 3.2 per cent on the year, according to data released Thursday by market research company International Data Corp. Japan (IDC). However, the relatively small increase masks the surging popularity of personal digital assistants (PDAs).

PeopleSoft Inc. has agreed to acquire Skills Village Inc., a supplier of contract service management software.

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has denied a Japanese media report that it is in the final stage of talks regarding a tie-up on 3G (third-generation) mobile telephone handsets with Motorola Inc.

A Swedish expert in the field of ergonomics has developed a new type of computer mouse which, he said, won't cause some types of repetitive strain injury (RSI).