On Thursday, Microsoft will publicly release a "technical refresh" designed to fix the niggling problems left in the new version of their office suite. The refresh will be available free to the 3.5 million people who are running Beta 2 already.

Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. is investing around 80 billion won (US$85 million) to construct a plasma display panel factory in Hungary, it said Tuesday.

A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced the owner and operator of iBackups.net to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence ever given for software piracy, according to a software trade group.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showed off its first 40-nanometer chip, a 32G-bit NAND flash memory that can be used in memory cards able to store up to 64G-bytes of data, or 40 movies.

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board of directors took no action at a special Sunday meeting and will reconvene late Monday to continue discussions about the scandal that has occupied the company over the past week.

Samsung Telecommunications America LLP has malicious code on its Web site which disables anti-virus programs, modifies registry keys and logs keystrokes when users attempt to download information from the site.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose IBM Corp. to build a new supercomputer for its Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, IBM announced Wednesday.

Continuing his quest to stop a slide in profits, Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini announced layoffs of about 7,500 more people Tuesday.

Early feedback from testers already using Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) report that the OS is more stable than expected, which bodes well for Microsoft Corp.'s plan to have Vista out according to its current schedule.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Wednesday announced it has developed a new device driver to make handheld-device screens brighter, even in broad daylight.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) is recalling several thousand laptop computer battery packs because mechanical problems with the pack's latch could lead to overheating of the battery.

After several delays, it appears Microsoft Corp. may get the next version of its Windows client operating system to customers according to its current schedule.

Sandisk Corp. now offers a small, lightweight portable device that allows consumers to record all types of video input, including live TV, to a range of flash memory cards.

Chinese regulators announced Tuesday they had chosen a homegrown format for the nation's digital television broadcasting standard, according to Chinese media reports.

Nonprofit environmental organization Greenpeace has rated mobile phone giant Nokia Corp. highly for its eco-friendly policies, but gave low marks to Lenovo Group Ltd., Motorola Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., among others.

Consumers will have to wait until the end of January for Windows Vista if the availability for the OS listed on Amazon.com's Web site is accurate.

Corel Corp. announced Monday it will buy multimedia software company InterVideo Inc. for US$196 million in cash.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday accidentally listed the pricing of the high-end consumer versions of Windows Vista on its Canadian Web site.

Google Inc. has launched Google Apps for Your Domain, a suite of hosted collaboration applications for small to medium-size businesses, universities, groups and affinity organizations, with plans to expand to larger companies by year's end.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has formed an "Internet Access Task Force" to examine whether net neutrality advocates' fears of large broadband providers blocking or slowing Web content from competitors are justified, the agency's chairwoman said.