Stories by David Legard

China overtakes Australia in Web audience size: IDC

The number of Internet users in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) will reach 40 million by the end of this year, 55.7 percent more than the 25.7 million users at the beginning of 2000, according to figures released by market research firm Int...

Singapore Enters the Machine Age

Singapore Reveals Five-Year Plan For Net Dominance

Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) aims to make broadband access to the Internet pervasive by 2005, to give the city-state a competitive edge over other countries in the region. To this end, the authority will encourage development of m...

Let the MP3 play

Samsung Electronics' newest mobile phone has a musical side.

Telstra signs ASP deals with Lotus, Microsoft

Telstra will offer applications software from Lotus Developmentand Microsoft Corp. on a trial basis under an ASP (application service provider) model, and has also formed a strategic ASP alliance with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Telstra announced yesterd...

Hard Times for Disk Drives

Price erosion and over-technology have made profits vanish; manufacturers assess new markets.

Will WAP wipe out banner ads?

The content of the Internet is being adapted to fit on your mobile phone. So, too, is the advertising.

IDC sees explosion of free 'Net access in 2000

Internet stock corrections, the death of pure-play "dot.coms" and an explosion of free 'Net access services are the main predictions for 2000 made by IDC senior vice president Frank Gens. In the market research company's Fifth Annual Predictions repo...

Corel, Creative to bring multimedia to Linux

Corel and multimedia specialist Creative Technology, have signed an agreement that will advance the development of Linux applications for high-quality audio and video.

Asia Pacific Net users go on shopping spree

Asia Pacific Internet users will spend over $US2.2 billion online this year, more than three times the $723 million they spent last year, according to a new forecast from market researcher IDC.

Creative brings Sound Blaster to laptops

Multimedia systems manufacturer Creative Technology has announced it will shortly offer its Sound Blaster audio products for laptop computers and handheld computing devices.

Telecom NZ bids for local telecom AAPT

Telecom New Zealand has made a $1.5 billion bid for Australia's third-largest telecommunications provider, AAPT, the company said today.

Fujitsu brings its SmartCity card into Asia-Pacific

Fujitsu is bringing its SmartCity smartcard to the Asia-Pacific region to build on the vendor's success with the product in Europe, the company announced last week.

Telstra plans high-speed Australia-Japan cable

Telstra has joined a consortium that will build a fibre optic link between Australian and Japan with a data transfer speed of 640 gigabits per second.

AAPT should stay independent, says analyst

Last week's $1.49 billion hostile takeover bid by Cable & Wireless Optus for AAPT would seriously damage competition in Australia's telecommunications market if it succeeds, a leading industry analyst claims.