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.

Oracle Corp. plans to pay US$495 million to buy Agile Software Corp., a maker of product lifecycle management software.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is putting the finishing touches on its DDR3 memory chips ahead of their commercial release later this year.

A string of payment card issuers have confirmed that they will introduce contactless "wave and pay" cards from September in the U.K.

Symantec Corp. is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing.

Advanced Micro Systems Inc. introduced a new chipset for mobile computing on wireless networks Wednesday in an attempt to get ahead of similar news expected soon from rival Intel Corp.

Only 10 weeks after asking customers what products they'd like to see, Dell Inc. Tuesday announced that its upcoming Linux desktop PCs and laptops will be preloaded with Ubuntu Linux. They are slated to be avilable by the end of this month.

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group said Thursday that it had raised the price for its hundred-dollar laptop to US$175, but were still confident they would collect enough orders to begin volume production by September.

A Kapsch és a Phion az osztrák piacon elért közös üzleti sikereit szeretné a közép-kelet-európai országokban is megismételni. Ennek jegyében az IT biztonsági megoldásokat szállító innsbrucki székhelyű Phion kizárólagos magyarországi partneréül a Kapsch Kft.-t választotta.

Microsoft Corp. Monday said it met the European Union antitrust agency's deadline for responding to allegations that the company overcharges for the information rivals need to make their products work smoothly with Windows.

A népszerű Linux-disztribúció, az Ubuntu péntektől elérhető, új verziója is teljes funkcionalitással bír és teljesen ingyenes.

Microsoft Corp. entered into a broad patent licensing agreement with South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. aimed at speeding product development efforts for both companies, they said Thursday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. want corporate users to see the two companies as being joined at the hip when it comes to their jointly developed Sparc Enterprise server line. But that only applies to engineering and product development. Otherwise, the two vendors will be competing for customers.

Tisztában van vele, hogyan lehet egyetlen platformfüggetlen eszközzel megoldani a folyamatok és események tervezését, irányítását, monitorozását és ellenőrzését heterogén informatikai környezetben? Elege van a napi, havi, stb. zárásokat megelőző éjszakázásból?

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Inc. Tuesday jointly unveiled a new online mapping initiative aimed at educating users about genocide.

The man given much of the credit for overseeing the development of Microsoft Corp.'s Word software blasted into space over the weekend as the fifth space tourist.

Toshiba Corp. has launched legal action in the U.S. against 17 companies that it says haven't paid the required licensing fees for DVD technology used in their products.

Ten days before it is due to report earnings, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) on Monday warned investors that it would restructure its business model in reaction to a steep drop in quarterly revenue.

If you like Thunderbird 1.5, you'll love version 2, now available as a near-final release candidate. Like the new Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2 doesn't introduce any radical changes. But it does introduce inherently useful upgrades that will boost your productivity, particularly if your inbox overflows with e-mail.

Google Inc. has commented on a new software tool it released in China this week, although it did not address allegations that the software bears more than a passing resemblance to a rival's product.