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.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. started 2005 well and is on the road to achieving its goal of a 20 percent slice of the server market this year, a senior executive said Wednesday.

Nike Inc. is putting the world's most popular music player to work in a system designed for its latest athletic shoes that tells runners the distance and time they've covered in their daily jog.

In an unprecedented move, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday simultaneously released beta versions of its three major upcoming software releases -- Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Windows Server, code-named Longhorn.

A Fujitsu Siemens Computers Kft. beszámolt legutóbbi pénzügyi eredményeiről, és egyúttal bemutatta új noteszgép-modelljeit is.

Google Inc. will soon begin selling video advertisements on the Web, opening a new front in its battle for a bigger slice of the online advertising market.

Flush with success from sealing a deal with Warner Bros. to have some of its movies sold using its Internet file sharing software, BitTorrent Inc. has turned its sights on China.

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.

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 Symantec felkérte az Egyesült Államok egyik bíróságát, hogy azonnali hatállyal utasítsa a Microsoftot a Windows Vista fejlesztésének leállítására. Az indok szerint a szoftveróriás rosszul integrálja a Veritas tárolási technológiát az új operációs rendszerbe.

In a surprise move, Dell Inc. on Thursday announced it will use Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) in its high-end, multiprocessor servers by the end of the year.

A japán Fujitsu egy olyan RFID lapkát fejlesztett ki, melyet nyugodtan bedobhatunk a mosógépbe, mert onnan tisztán és illatosan kerül ki - ráadásul még mindig működőképesen.

SAP AG officially released on Wednesday its business intelligence (BI) accelerator which it co-developed with Intel Corp. The two companies first announced they were working on the analytical engine a year ago.

Microsoft Corp.'s Bill Gates will detail on Wednesday how the company is adding search capabilities in its enterprise software, emphasizing how employees waste time trying to find information.

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will release a beta version of Windows Media Player 11, a more stylish version of its media software that mimics the sleekness of its main competitor, Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes.

Az utóbbi időben belehúzott a Microsoft: egyre több, készülőben lévő Live szolgáltatását nyitja meg a közönség előtt, hogy a teszteléssel segítsék a fejlesztési munkálatokat. Most a Live Mail került sorra.

Sony Corp. will begin selling its first personal computers with Blu-ray Disc drives in Japan in June, the company said Tuesday. Both laptop and desktop computers will be available.

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

In an effort to bounce back from slumping sales in the first quarter of 2006, Intel Corp. told 17 employees at its Glasgow, Scotland, site earlier this week that it would shut down the site by September.