Technology executives dominated the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of 400 richest Americans this year, with Microsoft Corp. co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates retaining his place at the top of the annual list for the 14th time. According to Forbes, Gates is worth US$59 billion.

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said Tuesday that it's his company's job to stymie hackers who try to unlock the iPhone -- the first time the company has officially said it would fight attempts to use the popular device on unauthorized networks.

The latest version of Oracle Corp.'s flagship database offers better security than earlier versions, but development errors have left vulnerabilities that attackers can use to steal data, an expert warned Monday.

Microsoft Corp. this week blamed "human error" on the part of its IT staff for a server problem that caused the company's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation service to incorrectly tag legitimate users of Windows XP and Windows Vista as software pirates.

Acer Inc. plans to acquire Gateway Inc. in a deal worth US$710 million that Acer says will make it the world's third-largest PC vendor.

Yahoo Inc. will close an almost two-year public test for its new version of Yahoo Mail on Monday with several new enhancements, as the Sunnyvale, California, Internet giant boosts this Webmail service that is key to both its usage and advertising growth.

Microsoft Corp. has partnered with handset manufacturer Nokia Corp. to deliver some of its Windows Live services on wireless handsets in Europe and the Middle East.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. sales chief Henri Richard will leave the company in September, AMD said Wednesday.

Imagine creating and managing a datacenter that handles 241 million registered users and sells a car a minute, an auto part every second, and a piece of diamond jewelry every two minutes.

Business applications vendor SAP AG on Wednesday laid out the future path for its product lifecycle management (PLM) software over the next three-plus years.

Lenovo Group Ltd. is targeting lower-income consumers in China by offering a new PC with a suggested retail price of 1,499 renminbi (US$198).

An experimental tag-based tracking technology is being tested as a way of tracking whales and gathering information about how they live.

As part of its drive to reduce road deaths and injuries, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. has installed in a car three prototype high-tech systems designed to stop drink driving.

Dell Inc. has agreed to acquire ASAP Software Inc. in a move to meet demand from large customers for tools and services that help manage their software assets.

Second-quarter net profit soared at Nokia Corp. thanks to a large one-time gain from the company's new telecommunications equipment manufacturing venture with Siemens AG.

Two days after unveiling in the U.S. what it said was the smallest high-definition video camera in the world, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) took the wraps off an even smaller camcorder on Wednesday.

Mozilla Corp.'s CEO Thursday evening answered charges that the company is dropping development of the Thunderbird e-mail client because of its partnership with Google Inc.

Microsoft Thursday moved to counter criticism about the uptake of Windows Vista by announcing it now has shipped 60 million copies of the operating system.

A power outage in parts of downtown San Francisco Tuesday affected office computers, lights and a hosting company for several Web sites.

A government audit of four U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) centers found US$6.4 million worth of missing or misplaced IT equipment, according to a report released Tuesday.