Ken Kutaragi, the former head of Sony Corp.'s game division and the man who brought the world the PlayStation, will look to harness the power of the network to tie together content in his next endeavor.

Google has renamed its personalized home page and added several new "gadgets," or mini applications, to the newly minted iGoogle.

IBM Corp. laid off 1,315 U.S. workers from its global services division, a union group under the Communications Workers of America said Tuesday.

As concerns mount about the commercial viability of Galileo, the European Union's ambitious geopositioning satellite project, pulling the plug isn't an option, said European Commission Vice President Gunter Verheugen on Thursday.

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group said Thursday that it had raised the price for its hundred-dollar laptop to US$175, but were still confident they would collect enough orders to begin volume production by September.

Healthy demand for flat-panel televisions and mobile phones helped Japan's Sharp Corp. achieve record sales and profits for a fourth straight year, the company said Wednesday.

A Kapsch és a Phion az osztrák piacon elért közös üzleti sikereit szeretné a közép-kelet-európai országokban is megismételni. Ennek jegyében az IT biztonsági megoldásokat szállító innsbrucki székhelyű Phion kizárólagos magyarországi partneréül a Kapsch Kft.-t választotta.

A tavalyi év során az Avnet Technology Solutions megvásárolta az Access Distributiont, amely a Sun termékek vezető forgalmazója világszerte. Áprilisi belgiumi igazgatósági ülésén az Avnet bejelentette, hogy az Access vállalatot Kurel János alelnök vezette Partner Solutions divízióba integrálja, és a magyar vezető feladatköre bővül az új termékek kereskedelmi hálózatának kiépítésével.

Microsoft Corp. Monday said it met the European Union antitrust agency's deadline for responding to allegations that the company overcharges for the information rivals need to make their products work smoothly with Windows.

Less than one week after disclosing a US$611 million first-quarter loss, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Monday said it hopes to raise up to $2.2 billion through the sale of convertible notes to institutional investors.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), the world's largest PC vendor, has filed another lawsuit against its fastest growing rival, Acer Inc., as competition in the PC industry continues to heat up.

A népszerű Linux-disztribúció, az Ubuntu péntektől elérhető, új verziója is teljes funkcionalitással bír és teljesen ingyenes.

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.

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.

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.

A VirusBuster Professional az ICSA Labs vizsgálatain szerepelt sikerrel, míg a nyílt platformon futó VirusBuster for Samba Servers a Virus Bulletin 100% (VB100) tanúsítványt szerezte meg.

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.

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.