Ubuntu Linux Founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple has done in this space and aired a vision of software changing the world.

A Ricoh Csoport 2008-ban először vett részt a Drupa nemzetközi nyomdaipari szakkiállításon, ahol a termelési szintű nyomtatási piac iránti elkötelezettsége jegyében mutatta be vezető technológiai újításait az üzleti és vállalati ügyfelek számára. Emellett a 2008-as Drupa az InfoPrint Solutions, a Ricoh és az IBM közös, nyomtatórendszerekre szakosodott vállalat megalakulásának első évfordulója is.

Mészáros Ilona júniustól a Trust Communications ügyvezető igazgatójaként folytatja pályafutását.

A Japanese software company is stepping up international promotion of its Web browser in the hope of carving out a 5 percent share over the next few years of a market dominated by Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Storage networking company Brocade Communications Systems has agreed to acquire enterprise LAN vendor Foundry Networks for approximately US$3 billion, the companies announced Monday.

Legg Mason, one of the largest holders of Yahoo stock, will back the company's recommendations for its board of directors instead of those offered by dissident investor Carl Icahn.

The woman formerly responsible for managing Microsoft's Internet domain names has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for bilking her employer out of US$1 million in fake registration fees.

Microsoft Thursday announced it has topped US$60 billion in yearly revenue for the first time in its history and posted a 25% year-over-year gain in net income for its fiscal year 2008.

While it still would present some integration challenges, AOL might be easier for Microsoft to absorb than Yahoo from a cultural and political perspective now that Microsoft's battle for Yahoo has gotten so ugly.

The European Commission Thursday sent Intel a new set of antitrust charges, the second such charge list within a year, Europe's top regulator said in a statement.

The worldwide PC market grew at a healthy 15.3 percent in the second quarter but the weak economy means tough times and possibly a wave of consolidation may lie ahead for PC makers, according to surveys released Wednesday.

Microsoft is meeting with AOL executives Wednesday to talk about the two companies combining AOL and Microsoft's online division, according to a news report.

The chairman and CEO of United Microelectronics (UMC), the second-largest contract chip maker in the world, announced his resignation on Wednesday, with the company immediately naming his replacements.

IBM will invest $1.5 billion to boost its semiconductor manufacturing and research efforts in New York State, the company announced on Tuesday.

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has told Microsoft executives that the company's search advertising deal with Google would reduce the Internet search market from two poles to one, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday.

Delivery of TV programming over Internet Protocol connections (IPTV) is growing at rapid pace, with the number of subscribers more than doubling for the second year running, according to a report from industry organization The Broadband Forum.

The retail price of text messaging while roaming should initially be capped at close to ?0.11 (US$0.17) per message, but then fall toward a long-term goal of around ?0.04 per message, the European Commissioner for the Information Society said Tuesday, unveiling plans to regulate the market for mobile phone messaging in Europe.

Az Axis Communications bemutatta kiváló képminőségű, többszörös H.264 stream kezelésére képes, új generációs hálózati kamerákból álló portfoliójának új tagját, a P1311-et.

A Comcast Corporation bejelentette, hogy sikerrel zárult a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) technológia kísérleti üzemeltetése. A próbaüzemet a vállalat Philadelphia és McLean városa között meglévő gerinchálózatán végezték az iparág első 100 GE csatlakozójával, amelyet a Cisco CRS-1 útválasztóhoz fejlesztettek ki.

As its open source desktop software grows in popularity across a wider range of electronic devices, the GNOME Foundation has decided to hire a new executive director to continue its spread.