Stephen Lawson

Articles by Stephen Lawson

Acer to license Palm OS for PDA

Taiwanese PC and electronics device maker Acer Inc. will announce this Friday that it will license Palm Inc.'s Palm OS operating system for use in a PDA (personal digital assistant), Acer spokeswoman Erica Hao said on Monday.

Web work far from done, Berners-Lee warns

After nine World Wide Web Conferences and more than 10 years of work, the Web is not ...

Japan set to reject Amazon patent

Amazon.com Inc. is facing a deadline within the next two weeks to respond to the Japan Patent Office's preliminary rejection of its patent application on a "one-click" online purchasing process.

China gears up for flexible networks

Two Chinese telecommunications equipment makers have lined up with a U.S. maker of remote-access equipment modules to create new systems that can evolve with China's telecommunications infrastructure

Report: China cracks down on Net cafes

Tough new laws imposed on Internet cafes in China could affect millions of people who use the shops as their link to the Internet.

MSN adopts Brightmail spam filtering

Microsoft Corp.'s Internet access service MSN has adopted anti-spam software from Brightmail Inc. as an option for users to protect themselves from unwanted e-mail messages, Brightmail announced Wednesday.

China leads the way in Microsoft voice interfaces

Voice-interface applications being developed at a Microsoft Corp. lab in Beijing may lead to an explosion of Internet use in the world's largest country and later find their way to customers around the world.

HK-based consulting firm shifts focus

The Web Connection, an Internet and electronic commerce consulting firm that was launched in the mid-1990s as one of Hong Kong's first Web design companies, on Thursday took note of a maturing Asian Internet industry and renamed itself Ion Global Ltd.

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