The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is putting some bite behind its bark in its fight against illegally copied CDs and DVDs.

Nem a Hitachi Global Storage Technologies az első olyan cég, amely a merőleges adatrögzítés technológiájával (PMR - perpendicular magnetic recording) készült merevlemezes meghajtót dob piacra, de úgy tűnik, ők alkalmazzák a legfelkészültebb kémikusokat.

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.

A grafikus szoftvereket gyártó Corel Corporation bejelentette, hogy befejezte a világ vezető tömörítőszoftver-gyártójának, a WinZip Computingnak felvásárlását.

Sony Corp. plans to unveil new client software next week that will extend its LocationFree TV platform to Macintosh computers and a wider range of mobile devices.

A U.S. Department of Defense agency and Microsoft Corp. will collaborate to improve Microsoft's Virtual Earth mapping program for military and non-military purposes, the Redmond, Washington, company announced Thursday.

As low-priced Internet phone services for mobile devices emerge, users should first check the fine print in their cell phone contracts to see if they can take advantage of such offerings. There's a chance they can't.

Microsoft Corp. has released a beta of Windows Live Messenger, the next version of its MSN Messenger instant messaging service, it announced Tuesday.

Apple Computer Inc. has prevailed in its case regarding logo use in iTunes against Apple Corps. High court judge Edward Mann delivered his judgement at 10.30 a.m. London time Monday, ruling in favor of Apple Computer.

Néhány nappal a "Word Intellectual Property Day" után az OpenOffice.org Marketing projektje egy új kampányt jelentett be: "Get legal - Get OpenOffice.org" avagy magyarul "Legalizáljon - OpenOffice.org-gal".

Bemutatkozott a CODA Hungary. A CODA Magyarországra 2006 januárjában akvizícióval érkezett, a korábban már CODA termékek kizárólagos forgalmazásával is foglalkozó Singular Hungary Rt. felvásárlásával.

To boost its local search and online mapping services, Microsoft Corp. has acquired a company that makes products for creating maps from aerial and satellite photographs.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is delaying the launch of its first titles on the new Blu-ray Disc high-definition video format for a month, it said Thursday.

Nokia Corp. and ATI Technologies Inc. are partnering to try to simplify and drive the development of multimedia capabilities for Nokia phones, the companies said on Thursday.

"Cheaper is not always better", "a product's value includes tangible and intangible benefits", "time is money." The above isn't a recitation from the Reader's Digest book 'Quotable Quotes.' They are three technology purchasing principles offered by Bob Park, director of marketing, IT division, Samsung Electronics Canada Inc.

"Nem mindig a legolcsóbb a legjobb", 'egy terméknek nem csak kézzelfogható előnyei lehetnek", "az idő pénz" - ezeket az örökérvényű szabályokat Bob Park, a Samsung Electronics Canada IT üzletágának marketing vezetője mondta.

Washingtonban megrendezett negyedéves Network Computing konferenciáján a Sun Microsystems bemutatta legújabb adatkezelő termékeit, amelyek a tavaly nyáron felvásárolt StorageTek technológiáját is magukban hordozzák.

"There is growing evidence that more people these days don't work from a physical workplace, but work from home or other places," says David Thorns, director of the social science research center at the University of Canterbury.

Testing problems are forcing some Oracle Corp. users to wait a little longer than usual for the company's latest round of security patches, the first of which were released last month.

Inventories of semiconductors used in all kinds of electronics gadgets soared faster than expected during the first three months of the year, but there's no reason to be alarmed about a chip glut, market researcher iSuppli Corp. said Tuesday.