A japán Sanyo Electric és a tajvani Quanta Computer megegyezett abban, hogy közös vállalkozás keretei között LCD TV gyártó üzletágat hoznak létre.

Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. and Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc. have agreed to align elements of their respective TV businesses with the creation of a new joint venture.

As anyone who's ever held forth in a barroom debate can attest, strange topics attract strange people.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. posted record high revenue for the second quarter on strong sales across several product groups including desktop, laptop and handheld graphics processing units, the company said Thursday.

Microsoft Corp. has issued nine security updates addressing critical flaws in its Office and Windows products. The updates patch two worrisome PowerPoint flaws that could allow attackers to seize control of a PC, the company said Tuesday.

Researchers say that small devices called "JitterBugs" could piggyback onto network connections to discreetly send passwords and other sensitive data over the Internet.

A Philips Electronics 8,3 milliárd euróért (10,6 milliárd dollár) némiképp szokatlan módon, aukción értékesítette félvezetőipari részlegét. A bevallottan kemény licitálást magántőke-befektetői csoportok nyerték meg.

Europe's third largest chip maker will sell its semiconductor unit to a group of private investment firms in a deal worth ?8.3 billion (US$10.6 billion), increasing the pace of consolidation in the industry.

Microsoft Corp. launched on Wednesday an upgraded version of its MSN Spaces Web site that lets users quickly create a Web site or blog, post photos and build a network of contacts.

A Matsushita Electric és a Renesas 2008-ra olyan chipek sorozatgyártását tervezi, amelyek legkisebb alkatrészei alig 45 nanométeresek.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) and Renesas Technology Corp. plan to begin in 2008 joint production of chips on which the smallest features are 45 nanometers, they said.

The world's richest man joins Karl Marx and Nikita Khruschev on a list of non-Chinese making the greatest impact on China, published Thursday by a state-run newspaper's Web site.

Sony Corp. will soon start selling a small GPS (global positioning system) unit that can be used to add location information to digital pictures, the company said Wednesday.

In an effort to compete with Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. is expected to announce Tuesday it will expand its line of servers powered by chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).

Intel Corp. unveiled its new Core 2 Duo processor lineup on Thursday, increasing the pressure on rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). The 10 new dual-core chips promise markedly better performance and greater energy efficiency than Intel's existing products.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has taken the wraps off a new cell phone that can receive radio and TV broadcasts direct from satellite.

A Samsung Electronics előállt a világ legvékonyabb, rádió- és műholdas tévéadások vételére alkalmas telefonkészülékével, az SCH-B500-assal.

Múlt novemberben a harminc éves Shawn Hogan érdekes hívást kapott a Universal Pictures és az Amerikai Mozgókép Szövetség ügyvédjétől.

Microsoft Corp. has released a new beta version of Exchange Server 2007 and the beta for an accompanying antivirus product, Forefront Security for Exchange, it announced on Monday.

A Harris Interactive kutatása szerint az amerikai felhasználók 65 százaléka rendszertelenül frissíti vírusirtóját, így védtelen marad a kórokozók jelentős részével szemben. A probléma az amerikaiak nagy részét érinti - 42 százalékuknak már fertőződött meg úgy számítógépe, hogy azon volt aktív vírusirtó.