Microsoft Corp. plans to give users a first look at its Office Live hosted service on Wednesday, according to the company. Microsoft plans to offer the service in three versions, one of which will be advertising-supported and free of charge to customers.

The integration of Siebel Systems Inc. into Oracle Corp. will result in a reduction of 2,000 in the total workforce of the combined companies, but a majority of the layoffs will affect Oracle employees, Oracle said Thursday.

Taiwanese chip vendor Via Technologies Inc. Thursday announced a new chipset for Intel Corp. processors that support faster front-side bus and memory technologies.

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.

Google Inc. is tightening the link between Gmail and Google Talk by allowing users to conduct instant messaging text chat sessions from within the Webmail service's interface, the Mountain View, California, company plans to announce on Tuesday.

Opera Software ASA will include support for "widgets," or small programs that run on a user's desktop, with a technical preview of its Opera 9 Web browser due to be released Tuesday, a company spokesman said.

IDC reported on Thursday that high-end devices helped contribute to the shipment of 825 million mobile phones in 2005.

An Azusa, Calif., man was arrested on federal charges Thursday after allegedly using fake e-mail accounts to trick America Online Inc. users into sending him their personal and credit card information so he could make illegal purchases with their information.

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported the highest quarterly revenue in company history for its fiscal 2006 second quarter on the strength of its Windows OS and a series of highly anticipated product releases. Still, the company fell slightly shy of analysts' revenue expectations.

Intel Corp.'s poor performance in the last three months of 2005 turned out to be good news for rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., (AMD) which on Wednesday reported better-than-expected financial results for the period. With sales of AMD's microprocessor division increasing nearly 80 percent from the previous year, the company reported revenue of US$1.84 billion.

Az Intel igen lelombozó eredményei még a tőzsdét is megrázták. Nem csoda, ha az elemzők feszülten várták, az AMD is hasonlóan gyenge eredményről számol-e be - ez ugyanis egy általános chip-piaci visszaesést jelzett volna. Ehelyett a feltörekvő processzorgyártó jócskán rácáfolt a pesszimista előrejelzésekre.

A Magyar Telekom csoport hetének bizonyult az elmúlt hét a hazai távközlési piacon, a kissé álmos évkezdetet két, komoly bejelentéssel pezsdítette fel a társaság. A T-Com és a T-Mobile közös ajánlattal jelenik meg a piacon január 16-tól...

As consumer demand for online video swells, America Online Inc. (AOL) announced Tuesday that it has acquired Truveo Inc., a provider of video search, to boost its capabilities in this area, considered one of the hottest segments of the search engine market.

As part of its monthly security updates, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday released patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its products. The more serious of the two flaws is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server products.

Sharp Corp. is planning to increase production at its two LCD (liquid crystal display) factories in Japan in response to anticipated soaring demand for flat-panel LCD televisions over the next few years, it said Wednesday. The company also expects to report record sales in 2006.

A két szoftver legújabb verziója lehetővé teszi a mobil- és szórakoztató elektronikai eszközök felhasználóinak, hogy megtekintsék a Flash technológiával készült weboldalakat.

While rumors of Google Inc. buying Opera Software ASA haven't proved true, the pair have extended their relationship. Opera will include a Google search item on the opening pages of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, the browsers designed for handheld devices. Opera filed a short statement regarding the one-year contract to the Oslo stock exchange on Thursday.