New data from eBay shows that its Skype VOIP service is still picking up lots of new users, but at a slower rate than in previous quarters.

TDK Corp. has agreed to sell its recording media division to Imation Corp. for US$300 million in cash and shares, the companies said Thursday.

The wife of an imprisoned Chinese dissident has sued Yahoo Inc. for divulging information about her husband's Internet activity, which allegedly led to his arrest and torture.

Microsoft Corp. entered into a broad patent licensing agreement with South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. aimed at speeding product development efforts for both companies, they said Thursday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. has extended its lead over Dell Inc. in personal computer sales according to two industry reports released Wednesday.

Yahoo Inc. and eBay Inc.'s PayPal have teamed up to attach a special icon to online merchants that advertise with Yahoo and offer PayPal's Express Checkout transaction processing.

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. want corporate users to see the two companies as being joined at the hip when it comes to their jointly developed Sparc Enterprise server line. But that only applies to engineering and product development. Otherwise, the two vendors will be competing for customers.

Intel Corp. Wednesday unveiled its Ultra Mobile platform, also known as McCaslin, designed for ultramobile PCs and other handheld devices, and outlined plans for increased Linux support and a new chip for ultramobile PCs due in 2008.

Intel Corp. demonstrated its fastest multi-core processor yet at the Spring Intel Development Forum (IDF) in Beijing on Tuesday, an 80-core processor that hit a speedy 2-teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) in a demonstration.

Microsoft Corp. this week will reveal new technology to deliver rich media applications on the Web, part of a broader strategy to go head to head with Web and design tools powerhouse Adobe Systems Inc.

Alacsony fogyasztású számítógépet jelentet meg a VIA Technologies és a Hewlett-Packard. Az új gépet a kínai piacra szánják, úgy tűnik, egyelőre itt van nagy igény az energiatakarékos technológiákra.

Computer Science professor Josep Torrellas has a simple explanation for the hardware he developed to fix bugs that can plague a computer processor after it's been shipped by the manufacturer.

Microsoft will force PC makers to stop selling machines running XP by the end of this year, despite ongoing compatibility problems and demand for XP from users.

The Word 2007 bugs pegged as security vulnerabilities by an Israeli researcher are nothing of the sort, Microsoft Corp. said Thursday. Instead, the application crashes reported as flaws are actually by design.

Seagate has launched File Recovery for Windows software, designed to recover deleted or damaged files from a Windows disk or USB stick.

IBM Corp. announced plans on Thursday to build smaller, more efficient chips by stacking a processor on top of its memory or power components, then drilling holes through the chips to connect them.

Microsoft Corp.'s top lawyer said Thursday that he is happy with the information the company provided about its Vista operating system, and its compatibility with existing PCs, ahead of the software's launch in January this year.

Days after Microsoft Corp. was sued over its 2006 "Windows Vista Capable" marketing program, the company's Web site sported a revised, more specific description of what the logo means.

Looking to help users to more easily build low-cost storage options for Solaris-based systems from multiple vendors, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced plans to donate pieces of its storage application software and hardware technology to the OpenSolaris open-source developer community.

The biggest news from the recent CTIA Wireless 2007 show: After years of mostly talking about mobile applications and content, the industry is finally acting.