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.

Shares of Palm Inc. were trading up slightly at midday Friday, boosted by a strong third-quarter financial report and an optimistic forecast for the fourth quarter.

A Sun Microsystems New Yorkban megrendezett idei oktatási és kutatási világkonferenciáján bemutatta a Sun SPOT projektet, amellyel új teret kíván nyitni a Java fejlesztők számára.

Az egyre növekvő játékfejlesztési költségek, a bővülő csapatok, és az egyre bonyolultabb hardveres technológiák hatására a Microsoft úgy döntött, hogy létrehoz egy XNA névre keresztelt fejlesztői környezetet, amely elősegíti a fejlesztési fázisfolyamatok optimalizálást.

A Sun Microsystems a Sun 2006. évi Oktatási és Kutatási Világkonferenciáján, New York-ban, bemutatta a Sun SPOT projektet, amellyel új teret nyitott a Java fejlesztők számára.

An unsolicited bulk email campaign for broadband and telephone calling rates may have flushed out a notorious U.S. spammer from a low-profile existence in Auckland.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun mass production of 512M-bit DDR (double data rate 2) DRAM (dynamic RAM) chips using an 80-nanometer production process, the company said Monday.

IBM Corp. is using a cluster of prototype blade servers built around its multicore Cell microprocessor to breathe life into a three-dimensional model of a beating human heart at the Cebit trade show in Hanover.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk (SSD), a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives, and is showing it at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, this week.

Via Technologies Inc. is a company that takes pride in bursting illusions, such as the idea the new ultramobile PCs would only come equipped with Intel Corp. microprocessors. Instead, it appears that any x86-based processor will do.

Intel Corp. will roll out a succession of computing platforms that build on the efficiency gains it achieved with a new family of dual-core processors, company executives announced at their trade show this week.

About 120 folks are gathering Friday at a town hall meeting to discuss the future of a fairly new initiative called the Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI).

Admitting that this was something that should have happened years ago, Oracle on Monday will make available a graphical database development tool for Oracle databases.

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the first three devices developed around the new ultramobile PC form factor they teamed up to develop over a year ago in a project code-named Origami.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to launch its first desktop and laptop processors by the middle of the year that support DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory chips, AMD executives said on the sidelines of a news conference at the Cebit IT show in Hanover, Germany.