TAIPEI -- Two pricing snafus on Dell Inc.'s Taiwan Web site forced the company to apologize to customers last week and quickly move to settle a probe launched by the nation's Fair Trade Commission.
The first error listed the price of a 19-in. LCD monitor at 500 New Taiwan dollars ($15.26 U.S.), far below its regular price of 4,800 New Taiwan dollars ($146.46), on June 26. Just over a week later, the site offered Dell Latitude E4300 laptop PCs for 18,500 Taiwan dollars ($563.40), less than one-third the regular list price of 69,000 Taiwan dollars ($2,101.34).
Dell said it has temporarily closed its online store in Taiwan and is offering consumers who ordered mispriced laptops a coupon for 20,000 Taiwan dollars ($605.40).
- Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service
BANGALORE, India -- Nandan Nilekani late last month resigned as co-chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd. to head up a newly created Indian government agency charged with creating a unique identification and smart-card system.
Nilekani will be minister of the Unique Identification Authority of India, which will oversee a new system for delivering subsidized products and other benefits to India's poor.
Nilekani was CEO and managing director of Infosys from March 2002 to June 2007.
- John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
LM Ericsson Telephone Co. CFO Hans Vestberg will take over as the company's CEO on Jan. 1, succeeding Carl-Henric Svanberg, who is resigning to become chairman of London-based BP PLC. Svanberg will continue to hold a seat on Ericsson's board of directors after his departure from the Stockholm-based company.
- Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service