Hans Lombardo

Hong Kong-based business-to-business e-commerce service provider Arena Transportation Community Network Ltd. has chosen Computer Associates’ (CA) Unicenter TNG for end-to-end management across its virtual extranet. Arena operates an integrated supply chain e-commerce environment for trading firms which was initially focused on Hong Kong and southern China but has expanded. According to CA representatives, Unicenter will […]

The networking subsidiary of Fujitsu Systems Philippines, Inc., Wesolv Open Computing Inc., is preparing for the local networking market’s expected move towards convergence of data, voice and video technologies. “In the next few years, you’ll see a lot more [applications] riding on your network,” said Felipe Manalang, president of WeSolv.”If you look back ten years […]

SmarTone Mobile Communications Ltd., with over 500,000 mobile phone subscribers, plans to introduce its Internet service, iSmart, this month and has signed a deal with Yahoo! Inc. to provide content for the service provider’s Web site. “We are committed to continuously providing innovative and value added services for our customers,”said Huber Ng, SmarTone’s chief executive […]

Hongkong Telecom (HKT), a Cable & Wireless company and the SAR’s largest communications services provider, has launched an integrated set of services, branded as Com21, that include Internet, network and conventional communications solutions. “The launch of Com21, a partnership of communications and commerce into the 21st century, is an important milestone in Hong Kong’s record […]

The Hong Kong Government contracted out local systems integrator Computer and Technologies International Limited (C&T) to produce its Web-based Electronic Tendering System. The Hong Kong company, which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK:0046), beat out 64 other local and foreign solutions providers for the contract to build an Internet-based tendering system for […]

The number of online users in Korea has reached 3.5 million and continues to climb thanks to an online gaming trend. “The total number of subscribers of all online service providers is about 3.5 million,” said Jin Ho Hur, president and CEO of Inet, Inc., a corporate-focused ISP controlled by PSINet, Inc. “Among them, about […]

Last week, China’s minister for information industry, Wu Jichuan, said that the country would experiment with foreign investment in its telecom infrastructure in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai. The Shanghai Posts and Telecommunications Administration Bureau has already signed a deal with AT&T to jointly offer telecom services in Pudong. Moreover, the government plans to […]

Chinese officials intend to tighten controls on Web sites that display information about national archeological treasures. This is apparently in response to incidents where thieves ransacked archeological sites by learning their secret location from Web sites, according to officials of China’s State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). SACH is in charge of information released about […]

According to a survey by Beijing-based Sinclair Company, 71.2 percent of non-Internet users in China are interested in getting on the Web. With official sponsorship from the Ministry of Information Industry, Sinclair launched the survey nationally to discover how much of the population was interested in the Internet. Sinclair’s survey was implemented by a questionnaire […]

Later this year, Compaq will open an ERP solutions center in Taipei specifically for manufacturing SMEs in the Greater China region. The Manufacturing Competency Centre will serve as a showcase for enterprise business management applications from Compaq and partners. Aggressively attempting to carve out a larger share of the manufacturing enterprises market in Asia, Compaq […]

Shares of ZiaSun Technologies Inc surged 100 percent in two days this week after a series of announcements. On Monday, the company announced plans to provide an e-mail service free to any Web site, and, last week, it said it would launch an Asian-focused e-commerce portal called Asia4Sale. Since last Friday, the stock has more […]

Sohu, rated by a recent China Network Information Center (CNNIC) study as the third most visited Web site in China, has launched an IT channel and, for content, is partnering with the South China Morning Post’s PostNet, China Computer World, and CNET Asia (Tricast). According to Sohu representatives the portal has created the channel in […]