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Microsoft is taking one step closer to realizing its .Net vision of ubiquitous access to Web-based content and services, as it gears up for the launch of the next version of its Windows CE operating system, Windows CE .Net.

In a move that takes Microsoft Corp. one step closer to realizing its .Net vision of ubiquitous access to Web-based content and services, the company is gearing up for the January launch of the next version of its Windows CE operating system, Windows CE .Net.

The Taiwan government plans to decide within the next two weeks whether to lift curbs on investment in semiconductor wafer fabrication plants in Mainland China, according to a government official.

Microsoft Corp. has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on the outlines of a settlement in the antitrust suit against the Redmond, Washington-based software maker, the Washington Post newspaper reported Thursday. Both sides hope to reach a settlement by Friday, it said.

This was supposed to be Cindy Low's first visit to Comdex. However, a combination of the economic slowdown and increased security fears helped convince the Singapore-based marketing manager for network equipment vendor Linksys Group Inc. to cancel her trip.

Compaq Computer Corp. has been awarded a five-year contract from the U.S. Postal Service that is estimated to be worth around US$1 billion, the company announced Thursday. The contract was awarded through a competitive bid.

At a time when 3-D graphics cards and application suites come standard with consumer PCs, it's hard to imagine a more stripped-down line of PCs than those that mainland China's largest PC maker, Legend Holdings Ltd., put on sale in Hong Kong in late 1999.

AOL Time Warner Inc. has made an offer to merge the cable-TV division of AT&T Corp. with its own cable-TV operations, according to a report published Saturday. A merger between AOL's cable unit and AT&T Broadband would create the largest high-speed cable provider in the United States with 40 per cent of the country's high-speed cable market.