Tokyo taxi passengers will soon be able to start paying for their rides using electronic money, three taxi fleet operators said this week.

The number of 3G (third-generation) mobile subscribers is expected to grow quickly in China, despite getting off to a relatively slow start, according to a telecommunications research firm in Beijing.

A világ két legnagyobb szerződéses chipgyártója, a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) és a United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) egyaránt jó pénzügyi negyedévet zárt.

Toshiba Corp. plans to put on sale in Japan in May its first laptop computer with a built-in HD-DVD drive, the company said Monday. The Qosmio G30 is expected to be the first computer available from any vendor with an HD-DVD drive.

Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have reached a basic agreement to build a new US$2 billion manufacturing line for LCD (liquid crystal display) panels, the companies said Monday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is showing several new cell phone handsets at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, including models with support for the Blackberry service and with Wi-Fi connectivity, it said Thursday.

A dél-koreai Samsung Electronics bemutatta az észak-amerikai piac legvékonyabb mobiltelefonját, ami a jelenlegi kedvenc Motorola Razr készülék méltó ellenfelévé válhat.

A Matsushita Electric Industrial, vagy ismertebb nevén a Panasonic bejelentette, hogy idén szeptember folyamán dobja az amerikai piacra első Blu-ray lejátszóit.

Fujitsu Ltd. expects to begin shipping a 200G-byte hard-disk drive suitable for use in laptop computers in the third quarter of this year, it said Monday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to double the capacity at its chip foundry subsidiary by the end of this year and become a potent new rival in the made-to-order chip business, a senior Samsung executive said Tuesday.

As German electronics giant Siemens AG refocuses its business, it is selling its remaining stake in components-maker Epcos AG, following the sale of its share in Infineon Technologies AG last week.

Microsoft Corp. Monday announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of BizTalk Server 2006, which will be generally available May 1, according to company executives.

The delay in Windows Vista will affect the next version of Office, too. Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will put off the consumer release of Office 2007 so it is in line with the new release schedule for Vista.

A készülő szoftver legnagyobb újítása az Actionscript 3, amely kiváló lehetőséget teremt RIA (Rich Internet Application) alkalmazások készítésére.

Több DRAM előállító, köztük a Powerchip Semiconductor és a Nanya Technology is optimista előrejelzéseket publikált, melyek szerint a jelenlegi DRAM árak júniusban ismét emelkedésbe kezdhetnek, ahogy beindul a "forró szezon".

A Samsung Electronics megkezdte a 80 nanométeres technológiával készített 512 megabites DDR2 memóriachip modulok tömeggyártását.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun mass production of 512M-bit DDR (double data rate 2) DRAM (dynamic RAM) chips using an 80-nanometer production process, the company said Monday.

A Samsung Electronics kifejlesztett egy nagyobb kapacitású változatot flash memória alapú SSD-jéből (solid state disk), amely arra hivatott, hogy leváltsa a merevlemezeket. Vajon az új technológia megrázhatja a merevlemezes noteszgépek piacát?

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk (SSD), a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives, and is showing it at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, this week.

A hannoveri CeBIT kiállítás keretein belül a Samsung Electronics egy olyan mobiltelefont mutatott be, amely 10 megapixeles kamerával rendelkezik. Ráadásul a tervek szerint már a második negyedévben piacra is dobnák.