Intel Corp. paid Micron Technology Inc. US$230 million for NAND flash memory designs and certain related technologies, as well as a perpetual license to use and modify the designs, Micron said Monday.

The number of 3G (third-generation) mobile subscribers is expected to grow quickly in China, despite getting off to a relatively slow start, according to a telecommunications research firm in Beijing.

Toshiba Corp. plans to put on sale in Japan in May its first laptop computer with a built-in HD-DVD drive, the company said Monday. The Qosmio G30 is expected to be the first computer available from any vendor with an HD-DVD drive.

Microsoft Corp. is quietly adding services to its Windows Live portfolio to compete with services Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. already have in place.

Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have reached a basic agreement to build a new US$2 billion manufacturing line for LCD (liquid crystal display) panels, the companies said Monday.

Turbolinux Inc. will acquire Japanese PHP tools vendor Zend Japan Ltd., the company announced Wednesday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is showing several new cell phone handsets at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, including models with support for the Blackberry service and with Wi-Fi connectivity, it said Thursday.

Google Inc. has come another step closer in its quest to become a Wi-Fi wireless LAN service provider in San Francisco.

Fujitsu Ltd. expects to begin shipping a 200G-byte hard-disk drive suitable for use in laptop computers in the third quarter of this year, it said Monday.

Microsoft Corp. faces more problems in South Korea after a company sued the U.S. software giant over its bundling of Windows Media Player with the Windows operating system.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to double the capacity at its chip foundry subsidiary by the end of this year and become a potent new rival in the made-to-order chip business, a senior Samsung executive said Tuesday.

Texas Instruments Inc., the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, opened a wireless technology center in South Korea on Tuesday aimed at developing wireless multimedia technologies that can deliver television and other content to handsets.

Workers misusing the Internet cause the most security incidents after viruses in large U.K. companies, a new government-sponsored study has found.

Although you might have missed it, Apple once again revolutionized the way we consume media. It was a quiet revolution, one that went largely unheralded and barely warranted a mention outside of the Apple-obsessed blogosphere. This revolutionary event came in the form of a Disney Channel musical called High School Musical.

The dispute between Apple Computer and the Beatles' Apple Corps heads to the High Court in London this Wednesday.

Multimedia developer Jered Cuenco calls it the "gray-box application" phenomenon: A Web developer, befuddled by a graphic designer's computer-drawn mock-ups, delivers a prototype full of generic gray buttons, plain white backgrounds, oversized headlines and other crimes against visually interesting user interfaces.

As German electronics giant Siemens AG refocuses its business, it is selling its remaining stake in components-maker Epcos AG, following the sale of its share in Infineon Technologies AG last week.

With corporate uptake of Windows Vista likely to be "sluggish", news last week that the general release of Windows Vista has been delayed until January 2007 left many IT managers unfazed. Few companies said they planned urgent rollouts of Vista and were happy with the stability of their XP fleet.

Microsoft Corp. Monday announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of BizTalk Server 2006, which will be generally available May 1, according to company executives.

The delay in Windows Vista will affect the next version of Office, too. Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will put off the consumer release of Office 2007 so it is in line with the new release schedule for Vista.