Name recognition alone makes WinZip the compression program with which all others must compete. Though it's no longer the must-have utility it was in the 1990s, it's still the program people think about when Windows XP's file compression isn't enough.

Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Ltd. Wednesday jointly announced a road map for delivering unified communications technologies as part of a development and marketing alliance they formed last July.

LG Electronics Inc. has unveiled the fruits of a cell phone design partnership with Italian fashion goods maker Prada SpA.

Adobe Systems Inc. has released Flash Player 9 for Linux, allowing users of the open-source operating system to create or use multimedia applications with the latest version of Flash.

A veteran Vallejo, Calif., fire investigator said a cell phone that was left on caught fire in a sleeping man's pocket, causing a fire that critically burned the man and heavily damaged his apartment.

Dell Inc. has launched its first semirugged notebook PC and plans to compete with Hewlett-Packard Co. and Panasonic for customers who need a computer that can cope with abusive vibration, humidity, altitude and dust.

Still reeling from the effects of a corporate reorganization that included heavy layoffs, Intel Corp. reported a profit of US$1.5 billion for the fourth quarter, down 39 percent compared to that period last year.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is presenting a challenge to Red Hat Inc. with competitively priced support in an update of its Solaris 10 operating system, announced Tuesday.

Shipments of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s PlayStation 3 console hit 1 million units in Japan on Tuesday, the company said. That's just over two weeks behind Sony's original launch plan, which envisaged hitting the million mark before the end of 2006.

With Intel Corp. processors supporting the company's Virtualization Technology (VT) becoming more pervasive, Linux kernel developers are writing the code to improve hardware virtualization and hence performance.

Ed Zander rode onto stage Monday for his keynote speech at the International Consumer Electronics Show on a bike armed with one of the company's new products, a mobile handset battery recharger.

A second U.S.-German group of investors, led by Sentex Sensing Technologies Inc., plans to make an offer for insolvent mobile phone maker BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG, following a bid by a rival group of American-German investors, Sentex said Monday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. reached for the consumer market Monday with two new PCs that allow customers to control Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista OS with a touchscreen interface instead of a mouse.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will pre-load services from Yahoo Inc. on its mobile phones, along with one-click access to applications and services from Yahoo competitor Google Inc. on select models.

LG Electronics Inc. took a big step on Sunday towards the end of the next-generation DVD format battle with the unveiling of a player and PC drive that support both the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats.

Microsoft Corp.'s Chairman Bill Gates kicked off the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Sunday by unveiling new products that support his company's vision of a world full of connected devices that serve up real-time, personalized content to users.

Yahoo Inc. will give users a preview of what it will be like to use a new and improved version of Yahoo Messenger on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show this year.

SanDisk Corp. has launched a 32G-byte solid-state drive using flash memory chips, intended as a replacement for conventional hard disk drives.

Just as the number of Bluetooth device users passed the billion mark, a lawsuit threatens the momentum of the short range wireless technology.

In the end, plummeting sales and a devastated brand scared away potential investors from financially troubled BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG, which failed to find a buyer to rescue it, according to the company's insolvency administrator.