IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have developed a free, entry-level, enterprise search application that at least one analyst believes will seriously disrupt the low-end segment of this market where Google Inc. has been selling many of its Mini search devices.

Skype Ltd. released the beta version of Skype 2.2, a software client that allows Windows Mobile smart phones to access the company's VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service over Wi-Fi connections.

Microsoft Corp. released the commercial version of its software for robots on Wednesday, hoping to shape the market much as it did for PC software a few decades ago.

An investigation into possible anticompetitive behavior in the flat-panel display market widened Tuesday, with two more big vendors saying they had been contacted by investigators.

Microsoft Corp.'s goal to provide a unified communications infrastructure for the enterprise moved forward Tuesday with the release of a private beta of software it sees as its communications hub.

Flash memory and hard-disk drives could face a challenge from a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, being developed by a group of companies led by IBM Corp.

Intel Corp. says it has rushed introduction of a new quad-core chip originally scheduled for next year to Monday to meet demand from server manufacturers for the processor.

Dell Inc. added Blu-ray disc capability to its notebook PC line on Monday, making an effort to compete with Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. in the growing market for mobile high-definition video platforms.

Fortify Software Inc. and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code.

Over two years in the making, Sun Microsystems Inc. is due to release the latest version of its Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software Monday, placing particular emphasis on the application development platform's support for other scripting languages.

Gamers love Sony Corp.'s new PlayStation 3 for its graphic capabilities and firepower, but the advanced Blu-ray DVD drive is annoying some by raising the cost, slowing production and forcing them to buy into a format they've not yet aligned with.

Microsoft Corp. on Friday finished development on a new version of its Exchange messaging server a week after the company celebrated its launch alongside significant new releases of the Windows client OS and Microsoft Office.

Mozilla Corp. has hit an early milestone on the road to the next version of its open-source browser, but the final product is still a year away, developers say.

Hackers are distributing a file that they say lets users of the corporate version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system get around the software's anti-piracy mechanisms.

Users are being advised to disable a certain type of file in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player software following the discovery of a new security hole in the software.

Since it was sunk 65 years ago today at Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack by the Japanese during World War II, the heavily damaged USS Arizona battleship has been slowly leaking fuel oil from its massive collection of now-submerged oil tanks into the harbor.

BitTorrent Inc. has acquired ľTorrent, another file-sharing application that uses BitTorrent's software protocol, it announced Thursday.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. are planning to replace around 1.3 million batteries manufactured by Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. because they may overheat and catch fire, the companies said Thursday.

There's now one more reason to be careful about opening Microsoft Office attachments.

Via Technologies Inc. announced that two of its PC chipsets have passed Microsoft Corp. Windows Vista Basic certification tests, ensuring trouble-free installation and driver upgrades.