Yahoo Inc. exceeded Wall Street's revenue expectations and met the earnings per share forecast in its first quarter, ended March 31, 2006, the Sunnyvale, California, company announced Tuesday.

A focus on higher-margin products and strong sales in middleware and microelectronics helped fuel IBM Corp. first quarter profit, the company said Tuesday.

Sony Corp. is planning to sell two of five business jets it owns later this year as part of its ongoing company-wide restructuring, it said Tuesday.

Strong results from Fujitsu Ltd.'s hard-disk drive and mobile phone divisions should push the company's profits for the year just ended higher than expected, it said Tuesday.

Fujitsu Ltd. hasn't taken sides in the next-generation DVD format battle, and as such it plans to launch in late June a desktop PC with a Blu-ray Disc drive and a laptop PC with an HD-DVD drive, the company said Tuesday.

Turbolinux Inc. will acquire Japanese PHP tools vendor Zend Japan Ltd., the company announced Wednesday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is showing several new cell phone handsets at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, including models with support for the Blackberry service and with Wi-Fi connectivity, it said Thursday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to double the capacity at its chip foundry subsidiary by the end of this year and become a potent new rival in the made-to-order chip business, a senior Samsung executive said Tuesday.

Texas Instruments Inc., the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, opened a wireless technology center in South Korea on Tuesday aimed at developing wireless multimedia technologies that can deliver television and other content to handsets.

Ezúttal Flint városa és annak nyugdíjpénztára perelte be a Take-Two játékkiadót, azt állítva, hogy az félrevezette a befektetőket, és bennfentes tőzsdeműveleteket hajtott végre.

The dispute between Apple Computer and the Beatles' Apple Corps heads to the High Court in London this Wednesday.

The delay in Windows Vista will affect the next version of Office, too. Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will put off the consumer release of Office 2007 so it is in line with the new release schedule for Vista.

Hamarosan nagy változások várhatóak a háttértárolók területén, ha a Samsung által kínált flash alapú memóriák megkezdik hódító hadjáratukat ebben a szegmensben is. Az első 32 gigabájtos egységek máris fellelhetők egyes hordozható számítógépekben.

A Samsung Electronics kifejlesztett egy nagyobb kapacitású változatot flash memória alapú SSD-jéből (solid state disk), amely arra hivatott, hogy leváltsa a merevlemezeket. Vajon az új technológia megrázhatja a merevlemezes noteszgépek piacát?

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk (SSD), a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives, and is showing it at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, this week.

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the first three devices developed around the new ultramobile PC form factor they teamed up to develop over a year ago in a project code-named Origami.

The amount of malware coming from China rose 153 percent during the last six months of 2005, Symantec Corp. reported Tuesday.

Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday announced it will acquire SyPixx Networks Inc. for US$51 million in cash and options.

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.

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.