Taiwan's legislature has passed a resolution asking the government to reduce its purchases of Microsoft Corp. products by 25 percent this year, a further sign the world's largest software company is running into resistance in Asia.

As part of its monthly security updates, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday released patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its products. The more serious of the two flaws is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server products.

Sharp Corp. is planning to increase production at its two LCD (liquid crystal display) factories in Japan in response to anticipated soaring demand for flat-panel LCD televisions over the next few years, it said Wednesday. The company also expects to report record sales in 2006.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is praising a U.S. District Court judge's preliminary approval Friday of a settlement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment over two widely-criticized copy protection programs found on an estimated 15 million music CDs.

A Panasonic egyik részlege, a Matsushita Battery Industrial a CES kiállításon bemutatott egy direkt metanol üzemanyagcellát (DMFC), amit kifejezetten notebookok számára fejlesztettek ki.

Sokan várták az Intel bemutatóját a Consumer Electronic Show keretében, hiszen köztudott volt, hogy a jelentős arculatváltozáson is áteső vállalat jelentős meglepetéseket tartogat termékbejelentések szintjén is. Az elnök-vezérigazgató, Paul Otellini mutatta be a legfontosabbnak számító újdonságokat.

As expected, Google Inc. launched a new video download service during a keynote by co-founder and President Larry Page at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Friday.

The recent controversy over a copy-protection system employed on music CDs from Sony BMG Music Entertainment proved to Sony Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer the need to carefully balance the needs of customers and the rights of artists, he said this week.

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.

A Samsung Semiconductor szerint a népszerű NAND flash memóriák jóval többre használhatók. Tavaly gyakorlatilag csak az Apple iPod zenelejátszójában használták fel őket.

Teljes Blu-ray megoldásarzenáljával demonstrál a CyberLink a Las Vegas-i Consumer Electronics Show-n. A videoszerkesztéssel, lejátszással, lemezkészítéssel kapcsolatos bemutatók a HP-nál láthatók.

Microsoft Corp. has blocked the site of a Chinese blogger critical of the government, raising sharp questions from its own employees over how far the company should go in abiding by restrictive laws used to curtail free speech and press in the communist country.

Las Vegasban nyitotta meg kapuit a 2006-os Consumer Electronic Show. Munkatársunk a helyszínen ismerkedik a kiállított újdonságokkal, melyekről folyamatosan beszámolunk a Computerworld Online hasábjain is: A gyártók fontos bejelentésekkel készülnek, ezért érdemes lesz követni a híreket.

A miniatűr merevlemezeket gyártó Cornice vállalat bejelentette, hogy a hamarosan Las Vegasban megrendezésre kerülő International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keretein belül mutatják be legújabb generációs meghajtó egységüket, melyek amellett, hogy jelentősen kisebb méretűek, kapacitásuk is megnövekedett.

While rumors of Google Inc. buying Opera Software ASA haven't proved true, the pair have extended their relationship. Opera will include a Google search item on the opening pages of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, the browsers designed for handheld devices. Opera filed a short statement regarding the one-year contract to the Oslo stock exchange on Thursday.

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.

Nigel Roberts used the European Union's E-Privacy Directive law to win Ł300 (US$500) in compensation from Falkirk-based Media Logistics (UK) Ltd., becoming the first person in the country to use European legislation to defeat spammers.

Two of the world's largest manufacturers of LCD (liquid crystal display) panels have started making screens at new factories that should enable them to cut manufacturing costs and so lead to further price reductions in big-screen, flat-panel televisions.