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If China is to meet its objective of becoming an IT superpower by 2010, the government must offer policies that support this goal, market research company Gartner Inc. said Thursday.

Asianux, a partnership between three Asian Linux vendors, is looking to expand its reach in Asia and hopes to add new members from Southeast Asia and India, executives said Friday.

Chinese developers of open-source software should play a more prominent role in the development of Linux and other open-source software, senior industry executives said at a conference in Beijing on Wednesday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. Friday announced that it plans to acquire Scitex Vision Ltd. in a move that will expand HP's large-format printing business. Scitex Vision, in Netanya, Israel, is a maker of wide and super-wide format printers for industrial applications and signs, such as billboards and banners. HP will purchase the printer maker for US$230 million.

Pacific Game Technology (Holding) Ltd. is being sued in Hong Kong by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) for selling the PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game console to customers in the U.K., the Hong Kong-based company said Monday.

China's Lenovo Group Ltd. has begun work on a project to build a computer that is nearly 10 times more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputer, a company spokeswoman confirmed. When completed, the Lenovo supercomputer will offer performance of 1,000 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second).

The Chinese government has joined an international antispam effort started by the U.K. and U.S. governments, the U.K.'s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said Monday. China's decision to back the London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration came after months of discussion between government officials in the U.K. and China.

Intel Corp. and Nokia Corp. have teamed up to back the development of mobile WiMax technology, and will work together to see that the technology is standardized soon. WiMax, part of the IEEE's (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.'s) 802.16 standard, is a wide-area wireless networking technology that promises to deliver wireless broadband access over a range significantly greater than that of IEEE 802.11 WLAN (wireless LAN) technology, commonly known as Wi-Fi.