Winners of 10,000 MP3 players given away in a Japanese fast-food promotion got more than they bargained for, as their prizes contained a worm. If they connect the music players to their computers to fill them with songs then the worm, WORM_QQPASS.ADH, can infect the computers and steal personal data.

Microsoft Corp. said Friday it is on track to launching Windows Vista simultaneously worldwide. Less than a month ago it warned that antitrust problems could delay the launch in Europe and South Korea.

Szakmai konferencián mutatta be nagyformátumú nyomtatóinak lehetséges üzleti felhasználásait a Hewlett-Packard hazai képviselete.

Claiming that IT spending is not contributing to business growth, Gartner said this week that eight out of every ten dollars spent is "dead money".

With Internet Explorer, Microsoft has increased its share of the global Web browser market to 85.85 percent, a gain that comes at the expense of Mozilla's Firefox and Apple Computer's Safari browsers.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The phone was first shown at the Cebit exhibition in Germany in March this year and was originally due on the market in the second quarter.

A legfrisebb fejlemények alapján a botrány egy korábbi igazgatótanácsi tag bosszúhadjárata a két korábbi elnök, Carly Fiorina és Patricia Dunn ellen.

Toshiba Corp. is planning to buy a one fifth stake LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd.'s Polish subsidiary in order to ensure a steady supply of LCD (liquid crystal display) panels for European televisions, it said Tuesday.

IBM Corp. plans to crank up the speed on its Power6 server chip to 5.0GHz, far higher than competing processors from Intel Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc.

Google Inc. has laid speculation to rest -- it is buying YouTube Inc. for US$1.65 billion in a stock transaction.

Microsoft Corp. Friday released what it believes will be the last test version of Windows Vista before the product is released to manufacturing.

Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs apologized to shareholders Wednesday after an internal investigation found that he had been aware of the company's practice of "backdating" employee stock options.

BenQ Corp. blamed poor product management for racking up losses of over ?840 million (US$1.07 billion) at its mobile division, BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG.

Nokia Corp. has developed a new, short-range wireless technology that it says could improve on some of the shortcomings of Bluetooth.

McAfee Inc. top executives went on the offensive Monday against Microsoft Corp., saying Vista will be even less secure for customers than previous versions of Windows.

Sony Corp. will launch a pair of Blu-ray Disc video recorders in Japan this December, the company said Tuesday.

In a crowded field of domain-name extensions, new .mobi names are proving popular among multinational corporations looking for ways to exploit the popularity of cell phones that can access Web content.

On Tuesday Toshiba Corp. will unveil the first slim-type HD DVD writer drive suitable for use in laptop computers.

A napokban New York adott otthont a Nokia sajtóbemutatójának, ahol a nagyközönség elé tárták a létező legokosobb mobiltelefont, az N95-öt.

By 2010, processor performance will increase 300 percent per watt as users demand eight times more grunt for encoding.