Martyn Williams

Having gotten back on the growth track after the economic turmoil of recent years, the Asia-Pacific region is poised to regain its place as the pre-eminent telecommunications growth market in the world, according to extracts of a new report on the region's telecommunications industry to be published Monday by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The latest chapter in the long-running saga of CDMA (code division multiple access) cellular network technology in China was written Monday when Qualcomm Inc. announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) concerning the use of the system in the country.

Since its introduction in May 1999, Sony Corp.'s dog-like Aibo robot has enjoyed a steady increase in...

NTT DoCoMo Inc. made a major step forward in its international strategy Thursday with the conclusion of a deal that will see it gain a 16 per cent stake in AT&T Wireless Systems Inc., the third largest wireless carrier in the U.S. At the same time, the company said it had also inked a deal to take a 20 per cent in Taiwan's KG Telecommunications.

Honda Motor Co. Ltd. used the Robodex 2000 exhibition last Friday in Tokyo to show off Asimo -- a 120-centimetre tall humanoid robot that walks in a similar way to a real person.

Retailers in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district over the weekend started selling the first Intel Corp. Pentium 4 processors and motherboards, jumping the gun on the chip giant's official launch of the new processor family.

Just over three months after it introduced an Internet-enabled refrigerator, South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. has launched...

International Internet capacity will hit a bottleneck in as little as two years, said Bill Carter, president...