In another sign that the future of powerful processors lies in multicore design instead of dense monolithic chips, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) released the last scheduled upgrade to its family of single-core Opteron processors.

Fujitsu Ltd. hasn't taken sides in the next-generation DVD format battle, and as such it plans to launch in late June a desktop PC with a Blu-ray Disc drive and a laptop PC with an HD-DVD drive, the company said Tuesday.

McAfee Inc. has jazzed up its Web site with a new online portal designed to help users research a wide range of security problems. Called the McAfee Threat Center, the portal was launched Monday as part of a redesign of the McAfee.com Web site.

Toshiba Corp. plans to put on sale in Japan in May its first laptop computer with a built-in HD-DVD drive, the company said Monday. The Qosmio G30 is expected to be the first computer available from any vendor with an HD-DVD drive.

Microsoft Corp. is quietly adding services to its Windows Live portfolio to compete with services Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. already have in place.

Az ingyenes szoftvereket támogatók érthetően neheztelnek a Microsoftra, amiért az arra kényszeríti a PC gyártókat, hogy ne értékesítsenek olyan számítógépeket, amelyeken nincs előre telepített operációs rendszer. A helyzet ráadásul a piaci verseny szempontjából sem túl biztató.

A Microsoft - egyelőre tisztázatlan összegért - felvásárolta a nagy-britanniai Lionhead Studios játékfejlesztő céget, elsősorban abból a célból, hogy exkluzív tartalmat biztosítson Xbox játékkonzoljához.

Google Inc. has come another step closer in its quest to become a Wi-Fi wireless LAN service provider in San Francisco.

Az új nyomtatószoftver-technológia segítségével a printer gyorsan, pontosan és egységesen jeleníti meg a bonyolult terveket és effektusokat, így az átlátszóságot tartalmazó PDF állományokat is.

Fujitsu Ltd. expects to begin shipping a 200G-byte hard-disk drive suitable for use in laptop computers in the third quarter of this year, it said Monday.

Microsoft Corp. faces more problems in South Korea after a company sued the U.S. software giant over its bundling of Windows Media Player with the Windows operating system.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to double the capacity at its chip foundry subsidiary by the end of this year and become a potent new rival in the made-to-order chip business, a senior Samsung executive said Tuesday.

As German electronics giant Siemens AG refocuses its business, it is selling its remaining stake in components-maker Epcos AG, following the sale of its share in Infineon Technologies AG last week.

A tervek szerint a Fujitsu az év harmadik negyedében elkezdheti 200 gigabájtos hordozható számítógépekbe szánt merevlemezeinek szállítását.

Az eBay egy olyan orosz weboldal bezárásában nyújtott segítséget, amely lopott előfizetői fiókokat árusított mindössze öt dollárért.

Az Adobe mindent elkövet azért, hogy a fejlesztők számára megkönnyítse a Flex, a Flash player és az AJAX integrációt, mert ez lendíti fel a tartalomgazdag internetes alkalmazások fejlesztését.

IBM Corp. is using a cluster of prototype blade servers built around its multicore Cell microprocessor to breathe life into a three-dimensional model of a beating human heart at the Cebit trade show in Hanover.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk (SSD), a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives, and is showing it at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, this week.

Intel Corp. will roll out a succession of computing platforms that build on the efficiency gains it achieved with a new family of dual-core processors, company executives announced at their trade show this week.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to launch its first desktop and laptop processors by the middle of the year that support DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory chips, AMD executives said on the sidelines of a news conference at the Cebit IT show in Hanover, Germany.