Stories by Stephanie Sim

Article | 30/01/2002 Handspring launches PDA phone in Asia
Handheld device maker Handspring has moved into new territory as it launched its PDA (personal digital assistant)-cum-phone, called Treo, in Hong Kong...
Article | 22/01/2002 Gartner says 15 percent of Asian companies run Linux
Linux adoption in the Asia-Pacific region has grown significantly in the last year, with 15 percent of the region's companies having servers that run ...
Article | 18/01/2002 Compaq, Apple, Yahoo, AMD and eBay report earnings
The PC market in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) region showed encouraging growth from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of 2001 when the num...
Article | 18/01/2002 IDC: Worst may be over for Asian PC market
The PC market in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) region showed encouraging growth from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of 2001 when the num...
Article | 14/12/2001 Twinhead produces Chinese Crusoe notebook
Taiwanese notebook PC maker, Twinhead International has launched its Crusoe-based notebook PCs in China hoping to boost its notebook sales there.
Article | 23/11/2001 Chinese authorities crack down on Net cafes
Chinese authorities have shut down over 17,000 Internet cafes around China and another 28,000 cafes will go through a reformation process over the nex...
Article | 21/11/2001 The winding road ahead for home networking
A myriad of home networking tools were available for the choosing at Comdex in Las Vegas last week, but wider use of those products will only come abo...
Article | 13/11/2001 Ofoto aims to capture digital prints market
Ofoto Inc., an online photography service, will release new software that aims to streamline the process of ordering digital photographs. The software...
Article | 2/11/2001 Pirated XP sneaks onto shelves in Asia
Pirated copies of Windows XP have found their way into the Hong Kong market. The two-disked "released to manufacturer" version of the software lined t...
Article | 17/10/2001 Asia catches instant messaging fever
English-speaking countries in the Asia-Pacific region have been quicker in taking up instant messaging than non-English speaking countries, according ...
Article | 21/09/2001 Worm continues its assault in Asia
The Nimda worm continues to breed across the Asia-Pacific region as more computer systems are infected on the second day of its pervasion into e-mails...
Article | 19/09/2001 Nimda worm wriggles throughout Asia
Most of Asia has been put on worm alert as W32.Nimda, a mass-mailing worm, greeted users Wednesday morning by infecting their address books, computers...
Article | 29/08/2001 Acer's first-half net profit falls 85 percent
Taiwanese PC and electronics device manufacturer Acer Inc. has seen its revenues take a beating with a drop of about 35 percent in the first half of t...
Article | 16/08/2001 Microsoft looks to paid messaging in Asia
With the number of instant messaging users exploding in Asia, Microsoft will focus on making the now free-of-charge MSN Messenger service profitable b...
Article | 16/05/2000 HK etailer going crazy with bookings
Chinese Books CyberStore Ltd., a Hong Kong-based Internet retailer, says it's shelving plans to follow in the footsteps of Amazon.com, whose business ...

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