Google Inc. has begun alerting users whenever they click on a search result that may take them to a dangerous Web site.

Europe's third largest chip maker will sell its semiconductor unit to a group of private investment firms in a deal worth ?8.3 billion (US$10.6 billion), increasing the pace of consolidation in the industry.

Norwegian consumer authorities are not pleased with the reply from Apple Computer Inc. about demands that the company change some of its iTunes Music Store policies.

Microsoft Corp. launched on Wednesday an upgraded version of its MSN Spaces Web site that lets users quickly create a Web site or blog, post photos and build a network of contacts.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) and Renesas Technology Corp. plan to begin in 2008 joint production of chips on which the smallest features are 45 nanometers, they said.

The world's richest man joins Karl Marx and Nikita Khruschev on a list of non-Chinese making the greatest impact on China, published Thursday by a state-run newspaper's Web site.

Sony Corp. will soon start selling a small GPS (global positioning system) unit that can be used to add location information to digital pictures, the company said Wednesday.

An exploit in Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox browser has been found that can hijack the software and monitor submit-and-click events.

In an effort to compete with Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. is expected to announce Tuesday it will expand its line of servers powered by chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).

File-sharing service Kazaa has agreed to pay record labels a US$100 million settlement for allowing tracks to be illegally swapped through its service.

Intel Corp. unveiled its new Core 2 Duo processor lineup on Thursday, increasing the pressure on rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). The 10 new dual-core chips promise markedly better performance and greater energy efficiency than Intel's existing products.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has taken the wraps off a new cell phone that can receive radio and TV broadcasts direct from satellite.

Apple Computer Inc. has developed a wireless version of its Mighty Mouse, according to a U.S. regulatory filing.

Microsoft Corp. has released a new beta version of Exchange Server 2007 and the beta for an accompanying antivirus product, Forefront Security for Exchange, it announced on Monday.

Microsoft's Vista developers can't catch a break these days. After years of warnings from security researchers that old code in Windows was creating security risks, the software giant decided to rewrite key parts of the operating system.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has agreed to buy Canadian graphics chip vendor ATI Technologies Inc. for around US$5.4 billion in cash and stock, the companies announced Monday.

Microsoft on Thursday reported a year-over-year profit decline of nearly 24 percent in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2006 due partly to a one-time legal charge, and announced a US$40 billion stock repurchase plan.

Open wireless Internet hotspots will soon serve as virtual phone booths, as four manufacturers plan to introduce Wi-Fi handsets for Skype Ltd.'s popular VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephony service this quarter.

Intel Corp. launched its "Montecito" dual-core Itanium chip on Tuesday, in an effort to improve its third-place position in the high-end server market.

The Indian government has blocked about 20 Web sites and blogs in India, following suspicions by the country's intelligence agencies that the sites were likely being used by terrorists to communicate with each another.