The ability to view and upload videos to YouTube is coming to some LG Electronics Inc. cell phones later this year.

Ten years ago this week Sony Corp. launched its first Vaio laptop computers. The PCG-705 and 707 went on sale in Japan on July 1 and were followed quickly by a desktop PC, as Sony tried to show the world that a consumer electronics company could make computers.

Különösebb incidensek nélkül adták el az első iPhone-okat New Yorkban. A vásárlók között volt Whoopi Goldberg is.

Now that Apple Inc.'s iPhone is finally on sale, the race is on to see who can unlock it.

New Yorkers have a reputation for being a hearty lot and those who want to be among the first to buy an iPhone Friday seem to be made of a particularly tough constitution. Despite temperatures that soared above 90 degrees Fahrenheit Tuesday, several were already lined up outside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system.

Az Apple pénteken, New Yorkban dobja piacra először az iPhone-t. Az első vásárló már hétfőn lecövekelt az Apple boltja előtt.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a pair of chips that can receive and decode four mobile digital TV systems. The chips should make possible smaller portable media players and cell phones that can pick up local broadcasts around the world.

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday started limited beta offerings of Windows Live file and photo sharing services.

Forty students from around the world got to pitch their software projects to Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday as part of a worldwide software development challenge.

More than a month after Symantec Corp. knocked out 50,000 Chinese PCs with a bad software update, the company is ready to offer compensation. But Chinese users eligible for the offer have to act fast; it's only good for a couple of weeks.

Expensive PCs were supposed be a thing of the past, but Sony has clearly not heard the news. The company has just announced what must be the most expensive non-gaming PC of the year, the Ł2,500 (US$5,000) RM1N.

McAfee Inc. has released beta version of its next-generation Total Protection 2.0 consumer security software.

Google Inc. on Monday turned on the solar panels covering nearly all the roof space on its corporate campus and announced that its philanthropic arm plans to dole out over US$10 million in grants to support hybrid cars.

Microsoft Corp. updated and renamed its IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) software, now called Mediaroom.

Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies.

Consumers planning to buy the iPhone when it goes on sale in the U.S. later this month will need to have an iTunes Store account before they can activate the device, according to information on Apple Inc.'s Web site.

Maven Networks, which provides hosting services for Internet TV, will announce Wednesday plans to add Microsoft's new Silverlight technology as a video delivery vehicle.

Google Inc. will make the data it stores about end users anonymous in its server logs after 18 months, part of an effort to deflate concerns about privacy raised last month by a European Union working group.

Apple is becoming a favorite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the US$10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday there was the Safari Web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway.