Nintendo will cut the price of its popular Wii gaming console to $199.99 this weekend, the company said Wednesday, escalating a price war with rival consoles in a weak video game market.

Microsoft has purchased assets in a company that specializes in parallel computing, a function used mainly in supercomputing that Microsoft aims to develop for a broader audience, the company said Tuesday.

Former SAP CEO Henning Kagermann is joining the board of India's third-largest outsourcer, Wipro, the company said on Tuesday in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

New reputation-based antivirus systems are doing a better job of blocking malicious software than did their predecessors.

Intel on Monday sharply criticized the European Commission, which found it guilty of anticompetitive behavior, accusing the regulator of being selective with evidence it looked at and, essentially, setting out to find the company guilty.

Some of the few PC makers who offered a controversial Web filtering program mandated by China have reversed those plans, dealing the latest blow to China's efforts to deploy the software nationwide.

Internet retailer Amazon.com has started selling electronics accessories under the AmazonBasics brand, the company said in a statement on Sunday.

Palm said it will stop developing new phones running Windows Mobile software, instead focusing future development on its new WebOS operating system.

Google wants a bigger piece of the display advertising market currently dominated by Yahoo, opening a new online marketplace called DoubleClick Ad Exchange.

The economy might still be in a fragile condition but it seems consumers can't get enough of flat-panel televisions. Sharp plans to increase production of LCD panels by tens of thousands of screens per month after seeing increased demand from TV makers, it said Thursday.

Oracle recently halted work on a green data center project in a suburb of Salt Lake City, but it is not clear why.

Storage vendor Data Domain has agreed to be acquired by EMC for US$33.50 per share, ending a bidding war that had pitted EMC against NetApp.

Just months before the official release of Windows 7, Microsoft is promoting Steven Sinofsky to the new position of president of the Windows division.

EMC on Monday increased its offer to acquire storage vendor Data Domain from US$1.8 billion to $2.1 billion in its latest effort to shove aside original bidder NetApp.

Greenpeace International on Wednesday criticized some major PC makers for backtracking on commitments to reduce hazardous substances in hardware.

Wouldn't it be nice if all our mobile gadgets connected to one universal charger? According to the vice president of the European Commission, Gunter Verheugen, it's not only possible, it's already on the drawing board.

European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared to U.S. users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe, according to Microsoft.

Just as the newest chapter in the storied history of Palm unfolds, the last remaining company founder is moving on.

Microsoft said today that it will pull the plug on its Money personal finance program at the end of this month, citing competition from banks, brokerage firms and unspecified Web sites as the reason.

Apple executives took potshots at Microsoft's Windows 7 today as they trumpeted the September release of the company's own Snow Leopard operating system and its $29 upgrade price.