A veteran Vallejo, Calif., fire investigator said a cell phone that was left on caught fire in a sleeping man's pocket, causing a fire that critically burned the man and heavily damaged his apartment.

A Samsung SCH-V960 érdekessége, hogy optikai joystick-kal szerelték fel - az egér működéséhez hasonlóan a fénysugár az ujj mozgására reagál.

Intel Corp. should have to share documents that could show it used monopolistic practices to force overseas PC vendors and retailers to shun Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) chips, the special master to a U.S. federal court recommended Friday.

Electronics manufacturers in China may be gearing up for another attempt to establish a proprietary optical disc format, although some analysts said such a move is unlikely to succeed.

Hackers have released attack code that exploits a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Word software -- the third such bug to be disclosed in the past week.

An investigation into possible anticompetitive behavior in the flat-panel display market widened Tuesday, with two more big vendors saying they had been contacted by investigators.

Over two years in the making, Sun Microsystems Inc. is due to release the latest version of its Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software Monday, placing particular emphasis on the application development platform's support for other scripting languages.

At a global event once known for long-winded, diplomatic speeches delivered by heads of state-owned telephone companies, Viviane Reding, European Union Commissioner for Information Society and Media, was brief and blunt in her keynote speech Monday at the opening of the Telecom World conference and exhibition in Hong Kong.

Mobile phones will undergo a dramatic transformation over the next few years, incorporating more powerful processors and more storage, as well as new technologies, a Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. research and development (R&D) executive said Monday.

Microsoft Corp. is investigating reports of a vulnerability in a Windows ActiveX control that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of a computer, according to an advisory issued Friday. One security company rated the vulnerability critical, while Microsoft said it allowed only limited attacks.

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.

A Siemens Medical Solutions, a világ vezető MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging – mágneses rezonanciás képalkotás) technológia- és alkalmazásfejlesztője a Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time operációs rendszert és a Concurrent NightStar alkalmazásfejlesztő-eszközöket választotta MAGNETOM mágneses rezonanciás képalkotó (MRI) termékei teljesítményének javítására.

Microsoft Friday released an interim build of Windows Vista to 100,000 Customer Preview Program (CPP) participants, and made the new build available on TechBeta, TechNet, TAP and MSDN.

Microsoft Corp. has issued nine security updates addressing critical flaws in its Office and Windows products. The updates patch two worrisome PowerPoint flaws that could allow attackers to seize control of a PC, the company said Tuesday.

A cég a különböző vállalati megoldásokat összevető "Best Practices 2006" versenyben az "Előrejelzés és analitika" kategória nyertese lett.

Az utóbbi időben megduplázódott, az e-ticket repülőjegy bevezetésével pedig tovább nőhet az internetes foglalások és utazásszervezések száma.

Epson has successfully developed A6-size flexible electronic paper using a plastic substrate.

Siemens researchers have designed an integrated single-chip fiber-optic receiver which could enable cheap 100Gbit/s Ethernet.

Nike Inc. is putting the world's most popular music player to work in a system designed for its latest athletic shoes that tells runners the distance and time they've covered in their daily jog.

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has been contacted by U.S. Department of Justice investigators looking into price fixing in the computer memory market, the Japanese company said Monday.