Still gasping from the resignation of its chief executive in January and an ongoing investigation of its accounting practices, Dell Inc. reported fourth quarter profits of US$673 million, down sharply from the $1 billion it reported for the same period last year.

The effort to control what's called e-waste could lead to a national "e-fee," a recycling charge that would be paid just like a sales tax on laptop PCs, computer monitors, televisions and some other electronic devices.

Japan and Russia plan to link their telecommunications networks via a new undersea fiber optic cable, they said late Tuesday. The cable, which is expected to be in place by the end of this year, avoids the area south of Taiwan in which many cables suffered damage after a powerful earthquake last year.

A new version of the Storm e-mail virus is populating blogs and online bulletin boards with links directing people to a Web site that is propagating the worm, representing a new mode of attack for hackers seeking financial gain, according to a security vendor that became aware of the virus Monday night.

The former legal counsel for McAfee Inc. is facing federal charges of improperly backdating stock options at the security software company.

Sony Corp. is aggressively promoting high-definition televisions (HDTVs) to consumers and soon it will have a range of digital still cameras to match.

Az idei évben – immár másodszor – Kiváló Business Solutions Partner minősítéssel díjazta a Microsoft Magyarország a rEVOLUTION Software-t. A vállalat a Microsoft Dynamics NAV eladások darabszámát tekintve a 2. helyezést, az eladások értékét tekintve pedig a 3. helyezést szerezte meg a népes partneri mezőnyben. A díj odaítélésében az év során értékesített licencek darabszáma mellett, a cégvezetők következetes építő munkája és a vállalat specializációk terén felmutatott eredménye is szerepet játszott.

Az American Power Conversion (APC) bejelentette, hogy két új iparági partner csatlakozott Blade Ready programjához.

Vista's user interface suffers from more "friction" than its predecessor XP, a French analyst said Monday, and is actually a step back for Microsoft Corp. in its pursuit of Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X.

Google's enterprise collaboration suite unveiled last week includes security options that let companies tie it into their existing corporate directories and extend single sign-on to the online provider's hosted applications.

Skype Ltd. is looking to a 1968 ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to open up the country's mobile phone industry for "unlocked" devices and third-party applications - such as Skype.

A Sony közleménye szerint a közelgő európai PS3 premierre butított konzolok érkeznek majd - a visszafelé kompatibilitásért ezekben már nem hardver, hanem szoftver lesz felelős.

Mozilla Corp. updated Firefox Friday to patch 14 vulnerabilities, three of them critical, but pushed out the new versions without fixing several flaws.

Az IBM a 2006-os év legjobb üzleti partnerének járó oklevéllel díjazta az Avnet Technology Solutions-t. A kiemelkedő teljesítményt a szoftver disztribúcióban érte el az Avnet, amely kategóriában az IBM vezetői a legjobbnak ítélték a céget.

Microsoft Tuesday released a set of six free tools for corporate users focused on assessment, planning, testing and deployment of Windows Vista.

Hewlett-Packard Co. topped Wall Street's revenue and earnings expectations in the first quarter of its 2007 fiscal year.

Mozilla Corp. will delay the next security update for Firefox so it can test a fix for a flaw that could be used by attackers by skirt security restrictions.

Microsoft Corp. released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday, a free upgrade available for download, in addition to new virtualization licensing for the database.

A Novell és az Intel illesztőprogramjaival a Windows Server 2000/2003/XP módosítás nélkül fut Xen virtuális környezetben a Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 rendszerén Intel Virtualization Technology megoldást tartalmazó kiszolgálóplatformokon.

Iridium Satellite LLC, the company that raised Motorola Inc.'s expensive space-based network from the ashes of bankruptcy, is now planning a new generation of satellites that may be able to continuously monitor the environment and take pictures of Earth.