Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced it was shipping the quad-core Opteron chip in volume after fixing a bug, but concerns are being raised about AMD's abilities to stick to its product roadmap, analysts said.

For all the fanfare surrounding the launch of Intel's Centrino Atom chip package at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, there was a notable shortage of new products based on the chips, apart from a few concept designs rolled out for the occasion.

Lenovo Group Chairman Yang Yuanqing wants to challenge perceptions of Chinese companies as mainly producers of cheap, low-end products.

Patton Electronics nyerte el immáron harmadik egymást követő évben az Internet Telephony Product of the Year kategóriában, az egyik legmeghatározóbb online magazin a HYPERLINK (http://www.itmag.com) oldalán.

Sun Microsystems termékei, szolgáltatásai kiemelkedő sikert arattak a tekintélyes fejlesztői szakportál, a Developer.com évzáró szavazásán. A Developer.com felhasználói tizenegyből hat kategóriában a Sunt látták a legjobbnak, s az összes leadott szavazatot tekintve a Java Standard Edition 6 JDK végzett az élen.

Dell is expected on Monday to add a new series of blade products to its PowerEdge server line, expanding its presence in a market dominated by rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV's main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components.

A Google 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist felmérése 2007 leggyorsabb növekedést produkáló keresőszavait vizsgálta.

Az AV-Comparatives és a Virus Bulletin legutóbbi összehasonlító tesztjein kevés vírusirtó teljesített kitűnően. Ennek oka több esetben az volt, hogy a szoftverek téves riasztásokat produkáltak. Az ESET NOD32 mindkét megmérettetésen kiemelkedően szerepelt, így az AV-Comparatives Advanced+ minősítésén felül megszerezte 47. VB100% címét is.

Michael Bay producer és filmrendező szerint a Microsoft szándékosan tönkre akarja tenni a HD DVD és a Blu-ray formátumot egyaránt.

Google released on Wednesday an iPhone application that puts Google's numerous services into a single interface on a navigation toolbar. Over time, the application will be available for other mobile devices, said Gummi Hafsteinsson, a product manager with the Google mobile team.

Strong sales of new and old products alike led Microsoft to its fastest first-quarter growth in seven years, with the company reporting growth in all five business segments and both revenue and earnings per share (EPS) that beat analyst expectations.

Sony Corp. has begun production of flat-panel televisions at a new Ľ11 billion (US$93.6 million) plant in Slovakia as demand for thin TVs is increasing in Europe.

IBM Corp. released SOA products for integrating software applications and improving business processes, and said more customers are starting to understand the SOA concept.

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.

Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system.

Microsoft Corp. has chosen what it sees as the next-generation in PC form factors - a computer the size and shape of a coffee table with a flat, touchscreen display - as the third major product it has designed and is branding for the consumer electronics market.

SAP AG confirmed Tuesday that Aliza Peleg, managing director of SAP Labs U.S., will leave the business applications company by the end of next month. Her departure follows that of Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, who resigned from SAP on April 1.

A group of chip makers led by IBM Corp. has agreed to further their collaboration by jointly developing 32-nanometer semiconductor production technology, a sign the alliance will continue to move forward.

Oracle Corp. plans to pay US$495 million to buy Agile Software Corp., a maker of product lifecycle management software.