David Legard

A 7,000-kilometre overland fibre-optic cable linking China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore began carrying commercial traffic Thursday, according to Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel), one of the project's backers.

A group of hackers has attacked government sites in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia at the weekend, according to Attrition.org, a Web site, which monitors hacking attacks.

Continuing an aggressive acquisition spree, Vodafone Group PLC has agreed to buy 34.5 per cent of Mexican telecommunications company Grupo Iusacell SA de CV for US$973.4 million.

Singapore's telecommunications regulator, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), has decided to delay the country's auction of 3G (third-generation) mobile phone licenses by two months from February to April, IDA said in a statement Wednesday.

All of Norway's modern high-speed Signatur trains ground to a halt Sunday, hit by a year 2000-type problem that surfaced one year late, the daily Dagbladet newspaper reported Monday.

Belgian speech technology firm Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (L&H) will appeal a local court's decision announced Friday to deny it bankruptcy protection, the company said in a statement Tuesday.

IBM Corp. has begun pilot production of chips utilizing a new process technology package that combines several recent advances in chip-making, with the first commercial products scheduled to ship early next year, the company announced Sunday.

Initiated by International Finance Corp. (IFC), a unit of the World Bank Group, companies from the United States and Vietnam on Friday announced the formation of a consortium to develop Vietnam's first online electronic marketplace, to be called MeetVietnam.com.