The five largest manufacturers of hard-disk drives will work together to promote a new technology that promises to improve system performance, the companies said Thursday.

LG Electronics Inc. plans to shortly put on sale a high-definition video disc player compatible with both the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc standards, it said Thursday.

A computer hacker claims to have broken the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption specification used to control unauthorized copying on HD-DVD and Blu-ray video players.

Mozilla Corp. has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser to fix eight security vulnerabilities.

...but it's from Linksys, not Apple. And before I unpackeded it, I wouldn't have even known it was an iPhone if Linksys hadn't told me.

Fujitsu Ltd. has beaten out four other bidders to win the contract to build the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc.'s next-generation trading system, the market operator said Tuesday.

2006 was a year of constant motion for IT, as regulatory imperatives and yearnings for business agility made balancing today's urgencies and tomorrow's priorities an arduous task.

Sony Corp. plans to launch an online video download service next year, according to reports in both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal newspapers.

The former head of LG's Korean mobile carrier, LG Telecom Ltd., will become the new chief executive officer (CEO) of LG Electronics Inc., the company said Monday.

The pace of change in the open source software business is likely to accelerate in 2007 as developers climb up the software stack from the operating system and databases to applications.

Google Inc. has released a customized version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) browser in which Google, not Windows Live Search, is the default search engine.

Intel Corp. should have to share documents that could show it used monopolistic practices to force overseas PC vendors and retailers to shun Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) chips, the special master to a U.S. federal court recommended Friday.

Symantec Corp. customers who have not updated their antivirus software are being targeted by a self-propagating worm, the company said Friday.

Electronics manufacturers in China may be gearing up for another attempt to establish a proprietary optical disc format, although some analysts said such a move is unlikely to succeed.

After watching its market share for the North American desktop PC market slip in a soft third quarter, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will seek greater profits in 2007 through a new family of quad-core server chips and its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI.

Mac users have been clamoring for a version of Photoshop that's built for Apple's Intel-based processors.

Commuters in Tokyo are getting a chance to experience some cutting-edge display technology from Thursday -- although they might have to look hard to see it.

Internet phone service provider Skype Ltd. plans to start charging U.S. and Canadian users US$29.95 per year for unlimited calls to regular phones in both countries, as the end of a free trial offer looms.

If you've ever dreamed up an ingenious new invention and then wondered if someone else has already made it, Google Inc.'s new patent search offering is for you.

Hackers have released attack code that exploits a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Word software -- the third such bug to be disclosed in the past week.