The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) is not concerned about reports from the U.K. that say RFID (radio frequency ID) chips in passports can be cracked in as little as 48 hours.

Sales of Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii console surpassed 600,000 in its first eight days on sale, the company said Tuesday.

The PS3 and the Wii aren't the only new gadgets in the house. Microsoft's Zune arrived here as well this morning. I'm working to get our review ready ASAP, but I thought I'd check in with a few very early first impressions.

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.

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

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showed off its first 40-nanometer chip, a 32G-bit NAND flash memory that can be used in memory cards able to store up to 64G-bytes of data, or 40 movies.

A brazíliai szövetségi hatóságok a Google Brazil betiltásával és súlyos bírságokkal fenyegetik a céget, ha nem adja ki egyes előfizetőinek adatait.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will this week unveil what it says is the first 70-inch high-definition LCD (liquid crystal display) panel.

A furcsa témák furcsa embereket vonzanak. Legalábbis Dr. Neal Krawetz, a felhasználók azonosítására szakosodott törvényszéki computerszakértő szerint.

Ezen a héten jelentette be szándékát az ATI felvásárlására az AMD. Az IDG hírszolgálata Thomas M. McCoyt, a cég alelnökét kérdezte arról, hogy mire jó mindez az AMD-nek.

Sony Corp. plans to next Wednesday take the wraps off its first high-definition camcorder compatible with the new AVCHD format.

Támogatják az Európai Unió országainak versenyfelügyeleti hatóságai az Európai Bizottság tervét, mely szerint újabb bírsággal sújtanák a Microsoftot.

Toshiba Corp. will launch the first HD DVD recorder next month in Japan, it said Thursday.

Összesen több mint másfél milliárd forintnyi bírságot szabott ki az IBM-re, az ISH Kft.-re és az SAP-re a GVH a versenyjog megsértéséért.

In an effort to rebound from disappointing results in its first quarter earnings, Dell Inc. will begin to act more as a bank, lending customers money so they can afford to buy more PCs.

The first systems based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Live home-entertainment platform will go on sale next month, the chip maker said Wednesday.

Worldwide server revenue remained flat at US$12 billion in the first three months of the year, bucking several consecutive quarters of year-on-year growth, research firm Gartner Inc. said Tuesday.

SAP AG officially released on Wednesday its business intelligence (BI) accelerator which it co-developed with Intel Corp. The two companies first announced they were working on the analytical engine a year ago.

Sony Corp. will begin selling its first personal computers with Blu-ray Disc drives in Japan in June, the company said Tuesday. Both laptop and desktop computers will be available.

In an effort to bounce back from slumping sales in the first quarter of 2006, Intel Corp. told 17 employees at its Glasgow, Scotland, site earlier this week that it would shut down the site by September.