Hans Lombardo

Taking advantage of improvements in China’s network infrastructure, PictureTel Corp., a network videoconferencing vendor, will open a new sales and support office in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou and significantly enlarge its operations in Shanghai. “The new facilities in Guangzhou and Shanghai will allow us to take better advantage of opportunities for PictureTel videoconferencing […]

Earlier this month, a hacker who is suspected of breaking into the pricing systems of various Taiwanese brokerages was arrested by police and scheduled for prosecution, according to local Chinese language press. Apparently, the hacker broke into the real-time pricing systems of more than 20 brokerages including some of the most established houses in Taiwan […]

The very popular Taiwanese love channel, LoveMatch, will re-launch with a new face next month. Currently, LoveMatch has nearly 190,000 members with a healthy mix of Chinese from not just Taiwan but many from Hong Kong, China and North America. “LoveMatch is a BIG5 only version,” said Steve Fox, a LoveMatch founder and a principal […]

Regional communications and network systems integrator, Datacraft Asia, has won a US$1.3 million networking contract from the Data Communication Bureau of China’s Ministry of Information Industry. The company’s China unit, Datacraft China, will design and build a high-performance distance learning videoconferencing network for students and academics at 20 tertiary education institutions in Beijing, Tianjin, Fujian, […]

LEXIS-NEXIS, a leading provider of networked information to business and legal professionals, has customized Universe, its newly launched Web-based product, for Asia. Universe is the company’s full-on venture into the general and customized online information business. The product is a resource environment powered by the LEXIS-NEXIS search engine and stocked with over 7,000 newspapers, magazines, […]

Content provider Dow Jones Interactive intends to expand its business among Asian companies with intranets. “This year we are going to look very closely at customers that have intranets and provide intranet solutions for enterprise-wide needs of information companies,” said Todd Slater, Dow Jones Interactive’s director for Asia Pacific. The Dow Jones company has a […]

USAsia Telecom LLC (USAT), a small Honolulu-based telecom and international satellite Internet services provider (SISP), is offering high speed satellite Internet services, branded as SkyTiger.net, to businesses throughout Asia. “SkyTiger.net converges the high speed, high quality, of undersea fiber optic cables that cost-effectively link Hawaii to the US mainland with the wide area coverage of […]

China.com Corp., a unit of China Internet Corp., has introduced a Chinese-language love channel to its Hongkong.com portal. With the popularity of various dating sites in Taiwan and China, China.com hopes that love.hongkong.com will be Hong Kongs most popular online romance destination. “With the launch of love.hongkong.com we are very pleased to bring a more […]

China Telecom will assist the country’s government departments and ministries in setting up their Web sites, according to China’s official news service Xinhua. The national telecom will provide preferential treatment to government organization including 128 k data lines for the national level and 65 k for the provincial level connecting to 163 and 169 nets […]

Local Hong Kong company Progressive Technology has produced MPF-Pro Web Easy, a Web-based application enabling provident fund administrators to implement Hong Kong’s mandatory provident funds (MPF) scheme and manage the growth in P-funds after the scheme’s introduction. MPF-Pro Web Easy, built using WebSpeed Internet Transaction Processing (ITP) software from Progress Software, gives members instant access […]

The Hong Kong financial secretary, Donald Tsang, rejected widespread criticism of the government’s choice of Pacific Century Group (PCG) as a developer of the HK$13 billion (US$1.7 billion) information technology business park, dubbed Cyberport. The governments selection of PCG, a corporation controlled by property tycoon Li Ka-shing’s son, Richard Li, has been met with calls […]

A Hong Kong firm specializing in Internet communication systems for the hospitality industry, I-Quest Corp., is the newest beneficiary of the Hong Kong Government’s Applied Research Fund. I-Quest has received HK$7.8 million (US$1 million) from the HK$750 million venture capital fund which aims to nurture the local high-tech industry. The company will use the investment […]