Dan Nystedt

Taiwanese chip manufacturers are investing heavily in DRAM production capacity, even as manufacturers elsewhere turn their attention to more lucrative NAND flash production.

Indonesia has joined forces with Microsoft Corp. to fight child predators, making it the first country in Asia to join a growing Internet collaboration.

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates may never see a more generous donation to the foundation run by him and his wife: a US$30.7 billion pledge from the world's second richest man, famed investor Warren Buffett.

Users looking for a new PC might want to wait for a round of price cuts that are expected soon from Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of microprocessors. Component vendors and analysts in Taiwan say the company may announce such reductions in July.

Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. became the latest company to announce a PC center aimed at bridging the digital divide in developing countries with the opening of a lab in Vietnam on Thursday.

Taiwanese consumers who fail to recycle mobile phones or optical discs, including CDs and DVDs, may face fines of up to NT$6,000, an official at the island's Environmental Protection Administration said.

Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. could face a fine, a civil lawsuit, or both if it is found to have illegally divulged personal data used to put a Chinese journalist in jail for 10 years.

It's about that time of year again when users who need IT products with heavy memory chip content should stand by for bargains. Prices of the NAND flash memory chips used to store data in gadgets ranging from digital cameras to MP3 players, as well as DRAM (dynamic RAM), which store data temporarily and play a large role in the speed of a PC, are falling.