Martyn Williams

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Wednesday it has developed a new Rambus DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip that costs 20 per cent less to produce than do current chips.

Want to check your e-mail from the sofa but the PC is not within reach? Fujitsu Ltd. has announced a new notebook computer with a remote terminal that allows users to check their mail and control the PC.

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. has announced development of a Linux-based tablet PC that boasts wireless LAN connectivity.

FCC Chairman William Kennard says it was the growing importance of instant messaging and its possible future status as a major means of communication emerged as one of the top issues in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's deliberations on the multibillion-dollar merger of America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc.

Japan

NEC Corp. plans to separate much of its high-speed communications components work into a new company to enable it to better focus and keep up with the fast-expanding broadband and networking markets, it said Wednesday.

Beleaguered name-your-own-price online retailer Priceline.com Inc. announced late Thursday that company founder Jay S. Walker is leaving the company to spend more time at his high-tech incubator, Walker Digital Corp.

Thirteen years after launching ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) services, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) said Wednesday the total number of ISDN lines has broken the 10 million mark.