Martyn Williams

Sony Corp., one of the world's largest consumer electronics companies, and L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co., the world's No. 3 cellular telephone handset maker, are in talks regarding collaboration in the handset business, Sony confirmed Thursday.

A dispute over garlic imports to South Korea from China that erupted last year once again threatens to hit exports of mobile telephones, according to reports from Seoul.

The United States Trade Representative (USTR) published its annual report on foreign compliance with telecommunications trade agreements Monday and hit out at a handful of nations for not living up to the agreements.

NTT DoCoMo Inc., business software maker SAP AG and its Japanese unit, SAP Japan Co. Ltd., signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) Thursday to explore development of mobile business systems.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), better known as North Korea, convened a session of its Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) last week and copyright and technology issues were on the agenda, according to state news reports.

Major U.S. search engines and Web directory operators Google Inc. and LookSmart Ltd. have increased their footprint in the Japan market with the signing of deals here this week.

Micron Technology Inc. plans to ramp up production of DDR (double data rate) SDRAM (synchronous dynamic random access memory) in the light of growing support for the next-generation memory standard, the company announced Wednesday.

The United States Trade Representative (USTR) published its annual report on foreign compliance with telecommunications trade agreements Monday and hit out at a handful of nations for not living up to the agreements. The United States threatened several nations with sanctions if progress is not made by specified dates.