A government audit of four U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) centers found US$6.4 million worth of missing or misplaced IT equipment, according to a report released Tuesday.

The war of words between Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab and rival Rising Tech, has intensified after Kaspersky slapped a defamation lawsuit on the Chinese antivirus provider following its recent controversial comments.

Researchers have demonstrated disk write speeds one hundred times faster than current hard drives. The method uses a laser to heat the recording surface and alter its magnetic field. There is no equivalent read speed increase though.

Each 8GB iPhone sold by Apple Inc. puts US$333 more in the till than the device cost to build, a market research company said Tuesday after tearing apart the new phone.

LG Electronics Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the world's largest contract manufacturer of laptop PCs over the infringement of four patents related to DVD (digital video disc) technology, the company said Wednesday.

Ten years ago this week Sony Corp. launched its first Vaio laptop computers. The PCG-705 and 707 went on sale in Japan on July 1 and were followed quickly by a desktop PC, as Sony tried to show the world that a consumer electronics company could make computers.

Hétfőtől elérhető az Adobe CS3 Design Standard szoftvercsomag magyar nyelvű, teljes mértékben lokalizált változata, amely a DTP és a grafikai szoftverek magyar nyelvű változatát tartalmazza.

Megjelent a PowerBuilder 11, amely Windows-alapú, objektumorientált, kliens/szerver fejlesztési környezetet kínál.

Network equipment manufacturer Avaya Inc. late Monday agreed to a US$8.2 billion cash buyout by private equity firms TPG Capital LLP and Silver Lake Partners, the companies announced.

IBM Corp. is pulling out the heavy artillery in its quest to build custom chips for both telephony backbone and handheld wireless devices, announcing a processor family built with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that is usually reserved for server processors.

Google Inc. is acquiring Panoramio, a photo-sharing Web site based in Spain that lets people upload photos and identify where they were taken by placing them on Google Earth or Google Maps, where they can be viewed by the public.

Microsoft Corp. plans to acquire aQuantive Inc., a digital marketing services agency, for around US$6 billion in order to grow its Internet advertising business, it was announced Friday.

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday reported strong growth in revenue and profit for a fiscal third quarter in which it made several acquisitions that it expects to help power Web 2.0.

Az Adobe Creative Suite 3 bemutatója kapcsán életre hívott rendezvénysorozat budapesti állomásán mi is jelen voltunk.

Researchers in Japan have developed new circuit technology touted to be the vital next step towards the realization of a practical quantum computer.

Apple Inc. issued a patch on Tuesday to close the hole found by the winner of a recent hack-the-Mac contest.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), the world's largest PC vendor, has filed another lawsuit against its fastest growing rival, Acer Inc., as competition in the PC industry continues to heat up.

A Microsoft bemutatta Silverlight nevű technológiáját, amely a böngészők interaktív médiatartalmainak lehetőségeit gazdagítja. A rivális Adobe egyelőre nem mutatja a pánik jeleit.

IBM Corp. announced plans on Thursday to build smaller, more efficient chips by stacking a processor on top of its memory or power components, then drilling holes through the chips to connect them.

Looking to help users to more easily build low-cost storage options for Solaris-based systems from multiple vendors, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced plans to donate pieces of its storage application software and hardware technology to the OpenSolaris open-source developer community.