Hans Lombardo

Hong Kong-based Web Connection, self-proclaimed as a digital communications agency, will next month formally launch inter-Merchant, its home grown e-commerce application, and plans within twelve months to open offices in Japan and Taiwan as well as increase its business in China. With its English and Chinese compatibility, inter-Merchant, which is priced at around US$500, is […]

Malaysia’s Multimedia Development Corp. (MDC) has signed an agreement with Australia-based Asia-Pacific Information Technology and Telecommunications Corporation (APIT and T Corporation) and Asia-Pacific Information Technology Awards (APITA) of Malaysia to establish an IT and telecommunications awards program for the MSC that includes electronic and network solutions among its categories. The awards, dubbed the Asia-Pacific Multimedia […]

AT&T has upgraded the international IP backbone network of Taiwan’s largest ISP, HiNet, a service run by state-run telecommunications carrier Chunghwa Telecom. The upgrade will increase the bandwidth of HiNet’s backbone from 72 mbps (megabits per second) to 122 mbps–56 times the bandwidth of a T1 circuit – to provide quicker response times and more […]

The creative director of Singapore-based Expanded Media Asia (XM Asia), Josh Sklar, has been appointed to the 1999 interactive jury of New York’s 40th Clio International Advertising Festival. Founded in 1959, Clio is one of the largest and most prestigious advertising awards competitions and today includes New Media like the Internet among its award categories. […]

America Online, Inc. and China Internet Corp. (CIC) have jointly launched a localized, beta version of AOL Instant Messenger for Hong Kong Internet users, available on the AOL Hong Kong Web site. “With the Hong Kong beta release of AOL Instant Messenger, AOL members and other Internet users in Hong Kong will be able to […]

Orientation Global Network, a rapidly growing network of regional and country portals run by Hong Kong’s Black Box Ltd., has launched its eighth country and second African site, Orientation Uganda. To produce the Uganda site, Orientation has partnered with Swift Global (Uganda) Ltd., an African ISP that offers services in Uganda and Kenya and is […]

Cabletron Systems has won the Asia Pacific Switched LAN ShootOut. The contest is the regional version of a similar events held in Europe and the United States and was held in Beijing, Hong Kong, Sydney and Tokyo. The ShootOut included an interactive seminar that offers senior networking personnel the opportunity to examine products and services […]

Attempting to carve out a role in China’s e-commerce future, Compaq signed an agreement with the Guangdong Post and Telecom Administration (GPTA) to establish an e-commerce technology center. The main function of the e-commerce center will be to develop and deploy e-commerce applications for the telecommunication industry in China based on Compaq’s hardware platforms and […]

Following the global e-business trend, Asian Sources has enhanced its scope by evolving from an established trade magazine and CD-ROM publisher to an e-commerce enabled info-mediary and supply chain solutions provider. The 28 year old company has accomplished this evolution with its Asian Sources Online Web sites which provide product, supplier and trade information and […]

The Chinese Government plans to improve the security of networks by imposing control on the quality of security products, according to the China Daily. “It is of the outmost importance that we remove the danger of intrusion that arises with the spread of computer networks such as the Internet which have made more rapid access […]

On Friday, Taiwan Vice President Lien Chan sent four voice e-mail messages from a telephone to 3 million Internet users throughout Taiwan. Utilizing the FirstGate Internet voice-messaging system developed by Maryland-based ITServ Inc, the vice president and his wife took the opportunity to offer Chinese New Year’s and Valentine’s Day greetings. The event was covered […]

As a promotion for Chinese New Year, Boom Securities Ltd., a pioneer in Hong Kong stock trading, will give existing clients and new clients a two month discount on their trades. According to Boom representatives, minimum commissions will be reduced by 58 percent. “Minimum commission” refers to all trades with a cash value under HK$35,200 […]