By Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia
The slowing of the U.S. economy and weaker greenback will dampen the consulting and systems integrator (C&SI) market in the region over the next 12 months, according to IDC. Read More >

China Mobile (CHL) has chosen Sybase 365 to extend its international SMS connectivity to an additional 44 countries and more than 130 operators. Read More >

South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung Electronics has announced plans to restructure its business and send Lee Jae-yong, elder son of Kun-Hee Lee, former chairman of the group, to work in China. Read More >

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority is prepared to help facilitate fixed and mobile network operators to engage in commercial negotiations relating to the withdrawal of the regulatory guidance on "Mobile Party's Network Pays". Read More >

South Korean telecom operator SK Telecom announced on Tuesday that it would invest US$1 billion to jointly build a digital content and design center in China with several of its partner and subsidiary companies. Read More >

Believing that Yahoo China has infringed his copyright by providing links to the photos he has taken for some stars, a professional photographer surnamed Wen has sued Yahoo China, asking the website company to pay RMB317,500 in compensation. Read More >

Though it has not reached a final agreement with China Unicom (CHU) on the price of acquiring the latter's CDMA network, China Telecom (CHA) has already begun to make arrangements for the operation of the network. Read More >

Chinese Internet travel website eLong.com (LONG) reported its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 and says net loss from continuing operations worsened year-on-year by RMB31.7 million to RMB32.6 million, driven primarily by a RMB28.3 million increase in unrealized foreign exchange losses and a RMB4.1 million decrease in interest income compared to the prior year quarter, caused by the appreciation of the Renminbi and lower U.S. interest rates. Read More >

China Mobile (CHL) has published an announcement on the second round of TD-SCDMA bidding. Read More >

Chinese communications equipment provider Huawei has spun off its Application and Software Division into an independent business unit and named it Huawei Software. Read More >

Asia-Pacific Information Engine, the largest internet data center in the Asia Pacific Region, has just been launched in Guangzhou. Read More >

Building on their leadership in TD-SCDMA, NXP Semiconductors and T3G Technologies announced that the next-generation 3G cellular system solution T3G7208 is now commercially available to the Chinese market. Read More >

Chinese game developer Shanda's (SNDA) unaudited consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 show net income dropped to RMB288.8 million, down from RMB448.8 million in the first quarter of 2007 and RMB292.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2007. Read More >

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has been selected by Beijing Netcom for a next-generation network service transformation in Beijing to provide a wide range of advanced services to its customers, such as point-to-point video telephony services. Read More >

Microsoft (MSFT) is expanding the range of document formats supported in its Office productivity suite. Read More >