The amount of malware coming from China rose 153 percent during the last six months of 2005, Symantec Corp. reported Tuesday.

Is Microsoft Corp. planning to announce details of a new portable device code-named Origami later this week? That is the question raised by a Web site called Origami Project.

A new preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, with tabbed browsing, an integrated search box, and RSS support -all features long taken for granted by Firefox users -is now available.

A Jupitermedia Corporation megvásárolta a Stock Image cég összes részvényét mintegy 11 millió dollárért. A digitális fotó-szolgáltató így tovább bővítette a portfólióját.

Tango.hu néven internetes keresőoldal kezdte meg működését. Az induló site olyan, a hazai piacon ismert szereplőkkel veszi fel a versenyt, mint a vizsla24, a Google vagy a Góliát. A Tango.hu a Startlap csoportot erősíti.

Microsoft Corp. plans to give users a first look at its Office Live hosted service on Wednesday, according to the company. Microsoft plans to offer the service in three versions, one of which will be advertising-supported and free of charge to customers.

Taiwanese chip vendor Via Technologies Inc. Thursday announced a new chipset for Intel Corp. processors that support faster front-side bus and memory technologies.

Sales and profits at Trend Micro Inc. reached record levels in 2005 despite the company incurring millions of dollars in costs after releasing a faulty update to its antivirus software early in the year.

Magyarországon 9 millió mobiltelefon előfizetést tartanak nyilván, és a mobiltelefonokkal elérhető szolgáltatások köre rohamléptekben bővül. Éppen ezért a Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem (BME) és a T-Mobile Magyarország Rt. a mobil eszközök terén mutatkozó mind erőteljesebb fejlesztői igények támogatására új internetes portált hozott létre.

Though the new head of Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division has been calling the company's MSN portal "MSN Media Network" internally, Microsoft has no formal plans to rebrand the site, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Thursday.

Egy, a Microsoft belső internetes naplójában szereplő információ szerint a vállalat átnevezné MSN oldalát MSN Media Networkre.

A neves angol újság, a Guardian tegnap arról számolt be, hogy Nagy-Britanniában naponta legalább 35 000 olyan letöltési kísérletet hiúsítanak meg, amely illegális, gyermekpornó tartalmú képekre irányul. A helyzet azonban ennél valószínűleg sokkal rosszabb!

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. detailed on Monday its first cell phone for the European market that includes support for digital TV services.

DataViz Inc. planned to release a new version of its RoadSync 2 software on Monday that will let users of certain Symbian smart phones receive push e-email from corporate Microsoft Outlook accounts.

Opera Software ASA will include support for "widgets," or small programs that run on a user's desktop, with a technical preview of its Opera 9 Web browser due to be released Tuesday, a company spokesman said.

IDC reported on Thursday that high-end devices helped contribute to the shipment of 825 million mobile phones in 2005.

Business application vendor SAP AG is adding a new support service targeting customers who want more than the company's standard offering, but not its pricier high-end service product.

Google Inc. attorneys will square off against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) at a Feb. 27 hearing over the issue of providing the government with information about searches for pornography on the company's site.

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported the highest quarterly revenue in company history for its fiscal 2006 second quarter on the strength of its Windows OS and a series of highly anticipated product releases. Still, the company fell slightly shy of analysts' revenue expectations.

Adobe Systems Inc. Monday is releasing software that will allow designers and engineers to save 3D images as PDF (Portable Document Format) files and share those files with anyone who has the free Adobe Acrobat reader, the company said.