Bob Liu

On the eve of President Jiang Zemin’s visit to the United States, U.S. and Chinese officials on Monday announced renewed contracts to North American telecommunications equipment providers valued in the “hundreds of millions” of dollars. Ericcson Wireless Communications , Lucent Technologies , Nortel Networks and Motorola each signed contracts with China United Telecommunications Corp., the […]

MSN Asia has partnered with Priceline.com to launch a new Asian travel service. Similar to Priceline.com’s deal with competing portal Yahoo!, the new MSN service is now accessible via its Hong Kong website and in Singapore. The new service is expected to provide users with cost savings of up to 20 to 30 percent off […]

Expedia Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Newtrade Technologies Inc., a Montreal-based developer of software and information distribution services that help hotels deliver their rates and availability to the market more efficiently. The move underscores the online travel industry’s desire to fuel growth by focusing more on […]

A U.S. District Court judge on Thursday ruled in favor of Huntsville, Ala.-based Intergraph in its patent infringement case against Intel, which now must pay at least $150 million under a previously negotiated settlement. Intergraph sued Intel in 2001 in Federal court in Texas alleging that Intel’s Itanium infringed on its parallel instruction computing (PIC) […]

AMD on Tuesday announced it has signed a agreement with China Basic Education Software Company, Ltd. (CBE) to form a joint venture to develop computers for the education market in China. The new research and development joint venture, called the Beijing CBE AMD Information Technology Company, Ltd. (ITC JV), is planning to develop three types […]

NEW YORK — With great fanfare and on the heels of major product forays by market-leader Palm Computing, Samsung Electronics Tuesday evening unveiled its own vision of how the handheld devices market has evolved, introducing a Wi-Fi-enabled personal data assistant (PDA) that offers the largest screen resolution available on the market. With the NEXiO, Samsung […]

When it comes to shopping for cars, the Internet has put amazing new tools in the hands of consumers. But separating the serious buyers from those who are just kicking virtual tires has remained a problem. Now, Autobytel is trying to solve it. The Irvine, Calif.-based automotive marketing services company is launching a “multi-level” program […]

Red Hat, the leading seller of Linux distributions, has partnered with BEA Systems, the supplier of the leading application server on the market, to add a Java Virtual Machine to the enterprise-version of its open-source operating system. BEA announced it will certify Red Hat’s Advanced Server enterprise platform with the WebLogic framework — a scalable […]

Echoing sentiments from LinuxWorld Expo last February, hardware and software vendors next week plan to challenge the notion that Linux is only meant for the lighter tasks of corporate computing. New strategic ties with software infrastructure (or so-called middleware) vendors and key customer wins will serve to build more momentum around the open source movement […]

Software titan Microsoft is taking a significant step toward appeasing the open source community by integrating its .NET Framework into the Apache Web server, the world’s most popular back-end software for serving up Web pages. Although Microsoft isn’t working directly with the Apache Software Foundation, the Redmond, Wash., company has announced a deal with Covalent […]

Leading online auctioneer eBay Inc. has made a small but strategic equity investment in Woburn, Mass.-based FairMarket Inc., a provider of private-label, e-commerce solutions that incorporate eBay’s dynamic pricing system, the two companies announced on Monday. Under the terms of the investment, eBay invested $2 million and received 952,380 shares of Series B Preferred Stock […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday said it lost money in its fiscal third quarter — the fourth time in a row it recorded quarterly loss — citing a 24-percent decline in revenue but officials still expect to return to profitability by the end of its fiscal year 2002 in June. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based workstation […]