As part of Microsoft Corp.'s continued efforts to promote its antipiracy campaign in China, Microsoft and Lenovo Group Ltd. executives formally plan to sign a US$1.2 billion deal Monday to cement a joint effort by the companies to provide genuine Windows software to Chinese customers.

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.

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.

A Microsoft - egyelőre tisztázatlan összegért - felvásárolta a nagy-britanniai Lionhead Studios játékfejlesztő céget, elsősorban abból a célból, hogy exkluzív tartalmat biztosítson Xbox játékkonzoljához.

Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday announced it will acquire SyPixx Networks Inc. for US$51 million in cash and options.

A federal program that funds "high-risk" technologies is at high risk of going out of business if Congress approves U.S. President George Bush's proposed federal budget for next year. Since it started awarding grants in 1990, the Advance Technology Program (ATP) has distributed some US$2.2 billion in funding to projects focusing on a range of subjects, including information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology and advanced materials.

Sales and profits at Trend Micro Inc. reached record levels in 2005 despite the company incurring millions of dollars in costs after releasing a faulty update to its antivirus software early in the year.

Google Inc. and Skype Ltd. have teamed up with two venture capital firms, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, to invest ?18 million (US$21.6 million) in Fon Technology SL, a Madrid-based startup that wants to build a global network of Wi-Fi hotspots.

IDC reported on Thursday that high-end devices helped contribute to the shipment of 825 million mobile phones in 2005.

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported the highest quarterly revenue in company history for its fiscal 2006 second quarter on the strength of its Windows OS and a series of highly anticipated product releases. Still, the company fell slightly shy of analysts' revenue expectations.

Intel Corp.'s poor performance in the last three months of 2005 turned out to be good news for rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., (AMD) which on Wednesday reported better-than-expected financial results for the period. With sales of AMD's microprocessor division increasing nearly 80 percent from the previous year, the company reported revenue of US$1.84 billion.

When 21-year-old British student Alex Tew needed to raise money to pay for his university, he came up with an idea many might dismiss as wishful thinking: raise US$1 million by selling 1 million pixels worth of advertising space on his Web site for $1 each.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is praising a U.S. District Court judge's preliminary approval Friday of a settlement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment over two widely-criticized copy protection programs found on an estimated 15 million music CDs.

A firm that holds patents for technology used in Internet voice calling is suing search giant Google Inc. for US$5 billion over its Google Talk instant-messaging client, according to court papers.