Microsoft Corp. is set to release a fully supported version of its Windows Live OneCare software, marking its entry into the security software market. OneCare will be available for download Wednesday on Microsoft's Web site, a day earlier than expected. By Thursday, the software is expected to be widely available in U.S. retail stores, said Microsoft's Samantha McManus, a business strategy manager with Windows Live OneCare.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will spend US$2.5 billion to expand its chip manufacturing plants in Dresden, Germany, to keep pace with growing demand for its PC and server chips, the company announced Monday.

The world's largest contract chip maker is offering new job seekers a chance to win Xbox 360 game machines if they apply for positions at the company, a sign of how eager Taiwanese tech companies are to attract workers.

Police in suburban Sydney Thursday arrested a man videotaping a premiere screening of "X-Men 3: The Last Stand," according to the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

YouTube Inc. is the most visited video Web site, attracting almost half of all visitors and towering over giants like Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL LLC and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, according to Hitwise Pty. Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will next month launch two portable computers that use flash memory in place of a hard-disk drive for data storage, the company said Tuesday.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Tuesday launched its new AM2 CPU socket, bringing support for fast DDR2 memory to the company's desktop processors. As expected, PC World's tests showed negligible performance gains from the new socket, but the change positions AMD for more notable performance gains with future products.

A Samsung Electronics már a következő hónapban piacra dobja első flash memórián alapuló noteszgépeit azzal a szándékkal, hogy azok idővel leváltják majd a hagyományos merevlemezzel szerelt megoldásokat.

Despite some predictions that World Cup soccer fever could send prices of LCD TVs higher this month, the screen component just got cheaper, a trend that should continue to make products more affordable to users.

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has been contacted by U.S. Department of Justice investigators looking into price fixing in the computer memory market, the Japanese company said Monday.

Az Egyesült Államok Igazságügyi Minisztériumának nyomozói felvették a kapcsolatot a Mitsubishi Electric képviselőivel, mivel felmerült a gyanú, hogy a vállalat is részt vett a DRAM piacra vonatkozó előzetes ármegállapodásokban.

A Belgian company has refiled a lawsuit over search terms offered by Google Inc.'s toolbar that directs users to pirated software.

Symantec on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging that the software giant violated a contract over the use of intellectual property and used the technology to develop a competing product.

Instant messaging as a communication tool for business is on the rise, said Lee Weiner, senior product manager at Symantec Corp.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is putting some bite behind its bark in its fight against illegally copied CDs and DVDs.

A nagyfelbontású (HD) videózás megszállottjait újabb formátummal örvendeztette meg a Sony és a Matsushita Electric (Panasonic). Az AVCHD nevű újítás a magas felbontású kamkordereket célozza meg, lehetővé téve HD tartalom tárolását a jelenleg rendelkezésre álló 8 centiméteres DVD-ken.

High-definition video fans can prepare themselves for another new format: AVCHD. The format, developed by Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic), is aimed at high-definition camcorders and makes it possible to store HD content on currently available 8-centimeter DVDs, the companies said Thursday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday unveiled five business notebooks and initiatives to help corporate users stay connected everywhere they go.

As low-priced Internet phone services for mobile devices emerge, users should first check the fine print in their cell phone contracts to see if they can take advantage of such offerings. There's a chance they can't.

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