Hans Lombardo

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Hongkong Telecom (HKT) has been rated the top performer in frame relay service in the latest survey published by Data Communications, a US-based industry magazine. Rating was based on three criteria, namely price, backbone network and service level agreements. Eleven major frame relay operators were asked to respond to a request for proposal (RFP) for […]

China Internet Corp. (CIC), a Hong Kong-based firm that owns the Hongkong.com, China.com and Taiwan.com portals, has licensed out the right to use the Taiwanese domain to a local CD-ROM firm, CMC Magnetics Corp., according to industry sources. CMC Magnetics is expected to announce plans to redevelop the ‘Taiwan.com’ portal sometime this month. However, CIC […]

Nearly two hundred of Hong Kong’s financial services elite turned out for Internet World’s Asian Internet Financial Services Summit in Hong Kong last week. Topics discussed at the summit included trends for the Asian brokerage industry, moving traditional brokerages online, the future of Web-based online information, Asian Internet banking, and security issues in online banking. […]

Hong Kong’s Web brokerage pioneer, Boom Securities, has unveiled its U.S. securities trading services, an interface that experts describe as dynamic, and a content deal with Reuters. While Boom’s move into US securities trading and expanded financial content solidify its positioning as Hong Kong’s first Web broker, its overall new look is what’s attracting attention. […]

Microsoft Hong Kong has given Hong Kong users a preview of the new Microsoft Network (MSN) Hong Kong portal. Microsoft claims to be offering extensive local and international content providers on the Chinese and English versions of MSN Hong Kong including the South China Morning Post, CNet in Asia, Sing Tao Daily, Sing Tao PC […]

Chinese and foreign institutions are jointly working on an effort to exploit the Internet’s potential for long distance education in China, according to China’s official news agency Xinhua. An official of the State Educational Development Research Center recently said that there was an effort to develop Internet education in China and that the objective of […]

AT&T and NTT have agreed to jointly offer corporate networking solutions. According to company representatives, the two telecom giants will develop agreements and business ventures that provide value-added networking solutions for large and mid-sized multinational businesses and industries in the Asia Pacific. “Our collaboration with NTT demonstrates AT&T’s dedication to meeting the managed services needs […]

Asia4Sale.com Ltd., the Hong Kong-based e-commerce portal, will offer global Internet users online retail franchises free of charge, according to a company spokesperson. With the help of Hong Kong’s largest ISP and e-commerce solutions provider, Hongkong Telecom Interactive Multimedia Services, Asia4Sale will introduce the service that will allegedly allow anyone to develop an online virtual […]

Sun Microsystems formed an alliance with 21 other software and IT service companies to help move Hong Kong’s traditional securities brokerage industry on to the Internet. “We’ve taken the step of forming the Securities.Com Alliance for Hong Kong because there is a real need for the IT industry to get behind the local investment services […]

For the third anniversary of its ISP unit, Interactive Multimedia Services (IMS), Hongkong Telecom (HKT) stepped up the pace with the introduction of its new Chinese portal and plans to develop the Web site into a portal for Greater China. IMS, branded as Netvigator, is Hong Kong’s largest ISP with 330,000 subscribers. In the last […]