Sharp Corp. confirmed Monday that it plans to raise LCD (liquid crystal display) panel production capacity at one of its factories in Japan by 20 percent.

McAfee Inc.'s auditor, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, may be thinking of buying some security software itself, after a Deloitte employee left an unencrypted CD containing sensitive information on thousands of McAfee employees in the back of an airline seat last December.

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.

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.

Google Inc. launched an early test version of a Web page creation and hosting service on Thursday and hours later stopped accepting sign-ups, citing overwhelming demand.

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.

A Google megállíthatatlanul ontja magából az újabbnál újabb alkalmazásokat, elkényeztetve "rajongőit", de ráncokat varázsolva a Microsoft vezetőinek homlokára. A Page Creator egy egyszerűen kezelhető webszerkesztő, mely segítségével előképzettség nélkül is alkothatunk weboldalakat.

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 Vodafone Group a Nokiát választotta egyik kiemelt szállítójának. A szerződés értelmében a Nokia világszerte IP multimédiás alrendszer-megoldást (IMS) szállít a Vodafone leányvállalatai számára. A rendszerek telepítése 2006 folyamán várható.

Az Axis Communications és a HP nemrégiben bejelentették, hogy közösen lépnek piacra egy KKV-knek szánt hálózati szkennermegoldással. A "kulcsrakész" HP Scanjet 7650n az AXIS 70U hálózati dokumentumszerverből és a HP Scanjet 7650 síkágyas dokumentumszkennerből áll. A HP Scanjet 7650n ideális üzleti dokumentumkézbesítő eszköz és a fax helyettesítőjeként is megfelel a KKV-k speciális szükségleteinek.

A Toshiba tervei szerint áprilistól végleg leáll a CRT (katódsugárcsöves) monitorok, illetve az analóg tunerrel rendelkező LCD televíziók gyártásával és értékesítésével Japánban.

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.

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.

The flash memory chips popular in consumer devices from iPod music players to memory cards for digital cameras and mobile phones saved the DRAM (dynamic RAM) industry from a major collapse last year, market researcher Gartner Dataquest said Monday.

A Seagate Technology bejelentette, hogy a harmadik negyedévtől egy 12 gigabájtra megnövelt tárkapacitással rendelkező, különösen mobiltelefonokba szánt merevlemezt szeretne piacra dobni.

If you use a Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB mobile phone, you may want to disable the Bluetooth function, the French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) warned this week, saying a security vulnerability potentially puts the phones at risk to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.

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.

History buffs can search George Washington's manuscripts online today for terms like "revolution," but only thanks to the tireless workers who transcribed the hand-written documents into digital form.

Though the new head of Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division has been calling the company's MSN portal "MSN Media Network" internally, Microsoft has no formal plans to rebrand the site, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Thursday.