Hewlett-Packard Co. topped Wall Street's revenue and earnings expectations in the first quarter of its 2007 fiscal year.

Mozilla Corp. will delay the next security update for Firefox so it can test a fix for a flaw that could be used by attackers by skirt security restrictions.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates have shared the spotlight for much of the past three decades. Later this year, the two tech heavyweights will share the stage during a joint appearance at an industry conference.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has pumped up the performance of its Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor and cooled down two single-core Athlon 64 processors.

Microsoft Corp. released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday, a free upgrade available for download, in addition to new virtualization licensing for the database.

Nikon Corp. updated its Coolpix range of digital still camera on Tuesday with seven new models.

Iridium Satellite LLC, the company that raised Motorola Inc.'s expensive space-based network from the ashes of bankruptcy, is now planning a new generation of satellites that may be able to continuously monitor the environment and take pictures of Earth.

Wikimedia Foundation Inc.'s popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks Inc.

Windows Vista can be used for as long as 120 days without agreeing to its product activation antipiracy software, the company confirmed Friday. That's four times longer than the 30 days the company has widely used as the maximum time span the operating system can be used before it shuts down.

It may be Valentine's Day but there are no love letters being exchanged between duelling electronic document formats, OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Open XML. Instead, Microsoft Corp., the backer of Open XML, took a public swing at ODF supporter IBM Corp.

One of the major bundled applications with any version of Windows on the server is Internet Information Services. And what a long road it's been since IIS 4, the first version of IIS, which came with Windows NT Server 4.0.

Quanta Computer Inc., the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday.

First-week retail sales of Office 2007 more than doubled the purchases of Office 2003 in the week after its launch in October 2003, according to market research firm NPD Group Inc.

Sony Corp. came out on top of the LCD (liquid crystal display) TV market in 2006 for the first time, according to figures published by DisplaySearch on Tuesday.

Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash video, the format that made Web video a hit, is coming to a version of Flash for mobile phones.

Alcatel-Lucent SA's revenue fell for the fourth quarter, and the company plunged into loss. The performance was disappointing, but the long-term prospects of the merger of Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. remain positive, the company said.

In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone Group PLC announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube Inc.

Microsoft Corp. has significantly raised what it charges retail customers for technical support for its latest software, Windows Vista and Office 2007, while narrowing the help offered to users.

Cisco Systems Inc. posted net income of US$1.9 billion, or $0.31 per share, on revenue of $8.4 billion in its fiscal second quarter financial results reported Tuesday, exceeding revenue but matching earnings per share estimates of analysts.

AMD Wednesday announced three dual-core additions to its Opteron processor lineup that use less power than standard versions of the chip. At the same time, the company added more dual-core Opteron chips to the high end of the line.