Nokia Corp. and ATI Technologies Inc. are partnering to try to simplify and drive the development of multimedia capabilities for Nokia phones, the companies said on Thursday.

Az ingyenes, nyílt forráskódú Firefox webes böngésző márciusban elég új felhasználót győzött meg ahhoz, hogy végre elérje a 10%-os globális piaci részesedést.

Az internetes céget jelképesen a brazíliai Curitibában "tüntették ki" egy biokalózkodás elleni koalíció hírhedt Kampókéz-díjával (Captain Hook Award): ezzel idén ők lettek "a genetikai magánszférára legnagyobb fenyegetést jelentő" cím birtokosai.

Április folyamán kerülnek piacra az első olyan komplett számítógépek, amelyek a "Windows Vista Capable" címkét tartalmazzák, segítve ezzel a felhasználókat eligazodni, hogy mely gépek alkalmasak a Vista futtatására.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to double the capacity at its chip foundry subsidiary by the end of this year and become a potent new rival in the made-to-order chip business, a senior Samsung executive said Tuesday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk (SSD), a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives, and is showing it at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, this week.

Google Inc. has introduced its lowest-priced Google Mini search device to date, in an attempt to capture the most price-sensitive segment of the small-business market.

Sharp Corp. confirmed Monday that it plans to raise LCD (liquid crystal display) panel production capacity at one of its factories in Japan by 20 percent.

Nokia Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. have basically agreed to merge their CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile phone businesses into a single company with a view to capturing the top share of the global CDMA market, they said Tuesday.

Google Inc. and Skype Ltd. have teamed up with two venture capital firms, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, to invest ?18 million (US$21.6 million) in Fon Technology SL, a Madrid-based startup that wants to build a global network of Wi-Fi hotspots.

A design flaw in Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems with built-in wireless capabilities could be exploited by hackers to lure Wi-Fi users into connecting to malicious wireless networks, according to Microsoft Corp., which recently completed an investigation of the issue.

As consumer demand for online video swells, America Online Inc. (AOL) announced Tuesday that it has acquired Truveo Inc., a provider of video search, to boost its capabilities in this area, considered one of the hottest segments of the search engine market.

The drive to replace DVD technology with newer discs boasting greater storage capacity has come down to two major competing formats, and the coming marketplace battle will be bad for companies and users, the head of a major U.S. technology products retailer said Friday.

Miniature hard-disk drive maker Cornice Inc. will launch higher-capacity drives at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that begins later this week in Las Vegas, the company said.