A Samsung Electronics 2006 második felében szeretne piacra dobni egy olyan Windows Mobile alapú mobiltelefont, amely 8 gigabájtos merevlemezzel rendelkezik. Külön öröm, hogy elsősorban az európai régióra gondoltak.

Úgy tűnik, végre beindult a Microsoftnál a Windows Vista marketing gépezete. A hét elején fény derült arra, hogy az új operációs rendszer összesen hat változatban jelenik majd meg egy időben, most pedig azt is megtudtuk, hogy már a termékpartnerek is megkapták az Időpontot.

A HP iPAQ hw6900 sorozatú Mobile Messenger a Windows Mobile 5.0 üzenetátviteli és biztonsági csomagjában (Messaging and Security Feature Pack, MSFP) található push-email funkcionalitást használja. Ennek köszönhetően gazdája azonnal, vezeték nélkül fogadhatja az e-maileket, és külön szoftverek és addicionális kiadások nélkül érheti el üzleti és személyi információit.

Egy héttel a kiszivárgott információk után a Microsoft hivatalosan is bejelentette, milyen változatokban érkezik majd a Windows Vista.

Symantec Corp. Friday said it has reached an out-of-court agreement in its adware lawsuit against New York-based Hotbar.com Inc. The deal calls for Symantec to dismiss its suit, but continue to classify Hotbar's program files as low-risk adware.

Imation, a worldwide supplier of removable data storage media, has announced that it has begun its scale-up of manufacturing for HD-DVD and Blu-ray optical recordable media in preparation for product introduction early this year.

IBM Corp. has collaborated with two universities to develop several speech-enabled Web applications for mobile phones, the company said Friday.

A new preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, with tabbed browsing, an integrated search box, and RSS support -all features long taken for granted by Firefox users -is now available.

Vyatta, an open-source router company, released the first beta version of its WAN router code this week, with the goal of becoming the networking equivalent of Linux or Firefox, but taking aim at Cisco instead of Microsoft.

The flurry of security issues involving Apple's Mac OS X over the past few days once again hammers home the fact that no technology platform is invulnerable to attacks, whatever the perception might otherwise be, security analysts said.

Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server initially will be limited in how users can access it over the Internet, according to a Microsoft blogger.

A Microsoft megújította MSN Search kereső szolgáltatásának kinézetét, hogy harmonizáljon a Live termékcsaláddal. Ezt a lépést az oldal Windows Live Search névre történő átkeresztelése követi majd.

Nokia Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. have basically agreed to merge their CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile phone businesses into a single company with a view to capturing the top share of the global CDMA market, they said Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp. plans to give users a first look at its Office Live hosted service on Wednesday, according to the company. Microsoft plans to offer the service in three versions, one of which will be advertising-supported and free of charge to customers.

The integration of Siebel Systems Inc. into Oracle Corp. will result in a reduction of 2,000 in the total workforce of the combined companies, but a majority of the layoffs will affect Oracle employees, Oracle said Thursday.

Egy Microsoft által indított kampány arra enged következtetni, hogy a Windows Vista operációs rendszer megjelenésének dátuma egészen pontosan 2006. december 1. Maga a vállalat azonban továbbra sem hajlandó pontos dátumot közölni az új operációs rendszer kiadási dátumáról.

Plextor, perhaps best known to Mac users for its external optical drives and personal video recorder (PVR) devices, has entered the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with the introduction of its PX-EH line. Prices start at US$299.

Google Inc. is tightening the link between Gmail and Google Talk by allowing users to conduct instant messaging text chat sessions from within the Webmail service's interface, the Mountain View, California, company plans to announce on Tuesday.

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.

DataViz Inc. planned to release a new version of its RoadSync 2 software on Monday that will let users of certain Symbian smart phones receive push e-email from corporate Microsoft Outlook accounts.