Google negotiators this weekend continue to hammer out agreements with wireless carriers, handset makers, software developers and hardware providers, as the company prepares to announce on Monday an ambitious platform for creating mobile applications.

Belatedly recognizing the importance of social networking, Google this week will unleash its strongest response yet to the rising threat and skyrocketing popularity of MySpace and Facebook.

Platinum Equity LLC will acquire Covad Communications Corp. for about US$304 million, making the communications services company the latest technology company to sell to a private equity firm.

Acer Inc. on Wednesday announced the completion of its acquisition of Gateway Inc., making it officially the third largest PC vendor in the world.

Molnár Gyula, a TÖOSZ elnöke az E-Önkormányzat konferencián a magyar nyelvű tartalmak fontosságáról beszél.

A mobileszközökre optimalizált Flash Player képes a Flash videók és Flash-alapú, dinamikus online tartalmak megjelenítésére.

Öt új készüléket, online zene- és játékboltot mutatott be a Nokia. A tartalmakat a sajátságos Ovi márkanév alatt integrálják.

Acer Inc. plans to acquire Gateway Inc. in a deal worth US$710 million that Acer says will make it the world's third-largest PC vendor.

A Nokia továbbra is piacvezető a mobilok eladásában, a problémákkal küzdő Motorola visszaesett. Az Apple részesedése 0,1 százalék.

A Google adatvédelmi globális tanácsadója szerint ideje változtatni a vállalati öltözködési normákon: öltöny és nyakkendő helyett sokatmondóbb a rövidujjú póló.

A Sunbelt Threat Research Center havi toplistájában a világszerte fertőző 10 legelterjedtebb kémprogramról találhatunk egy rövid működési leírást, ami segíthet a hasonló károkozók jövőbeni elkerülésében. A lista minden hónapban a díjnyertes CounterSpy kémprogram-eltávolítót használó és a Sunbelt ThreatNet káros alkalmazások elleni hálózatban résztvevő több százezer felhasználó automatikus visszajelzései alapján készül, ami átfogó képet ad a kémprogramok elterjedtségéről hazánkban és világszerte egyaránt.

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.

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.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a pair of chips that can receive and decode four mobile digital TV systems. The chips should make possible smaller portable media players and cell phones that can pick up local broadcasts around the world.

Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies.

Google Inc. will make the data it stores about end users anonymous in its server logs after 18 months, part of an effort to deflate concerns about privacy raised last month by a European Union working group.

Motherboards that use Intel Corp.'s 3-series chipsets, codenamed Bearlake, seem to be everywhere at the Computex exhibition - signalling they will soon find their way to store shelves and hardware makers around the world.

Under a licensing agreement in its final stages, consumers may get the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they've purchased, a concession by the movie industry that may quell criticism that DRM (digital rights management) technologies are too restrictive.

A group of chip makers led by IBM Corp. has agreed to further their collaboration by jointly developing 32-nanometer semiconductor production technology, a sign the alliance will continue to move forward.