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.

A Toshiba a közeljövőben három, AMD processzorokra épülő modellel bővíti a Satellite notebookok palettáját. A Toshiba 2000 óta nem kínált AMD-alapú termékeket.

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.

Az Intel bejelentette, hogy processzorai ólommentesek lesznek. Az első darabokat az év második felében kezdik gyártani, 2008-ra pedig a 65 nanométeres modellekből is eltűnik az ólom.

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.

Mozilla Corp. developers are experimenting with a service that lets users store online content on a remote server and access that information on cell phones.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will make a quad-core chip for desktop PCs, replacing its venerable Athlon processor with the new "Phenom" design in an attempt to compete better with Intel Corp.

Users looking to add more DRAM (dynamic RAM) to their PCs are likely to continue to see bargains throughout May and June, as prices of the memory chips continue to crash.

Microsoft Corp. has closed the public testing period for Windows Live Hotmail and has begun a months-long process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its Hotmail Web mail service, the company will announce Monday.

2008-ban jár le a Pannon és a Magyar Telekom 15 évre kötött mobilkoncessziós szerződése. A hosszabbítás 30 milliárdba kerül.

IBM Corp. laid off 1,315 U.S. workers from its global services division, a union group under the Communications Workers of America said Tuesday.

A tavalyi év során az Avnet Technology Solutions megvásárolta az Access Distributiont, amely a Sun termékek vezető forgalmazója világszerte. Áprilisi belgiumi igazgatósági ülésén az Avnet bejelentette, hogy az Access vállalatot Kurel János alelnök vezette Partner Solutions divízióba integrálja, és a magyar vezető feladatköre bővül az új termékek kereskedelmi hálózatának kiépítésével.

Less than one week after disclosing a US$611 million first-quarter loss, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Monday said it hopes to raise up to $2.2 billion through the sale of convertible notes to institutional investors.

Yahoo Inc. and eBay Inc.'s PayPal have teamed up to attach a special icon to online merchants that advertise with Yahoo and offer PayPal's Express Checkout transaction processing.

Intel Corp. Wednesday unveiled its Ultra Mobile platform, also known as McCaslin, designed for ultramobile PCs and other handheld devices, and outlined plans for increased Linux support and a new chip for ultramobile PCs due in 2008.

Intel Corp. demonstrated its fastest multi-core processor yet at the Spring Intel Development Forum (IDF) in Beijing on Tuesday, an 80-core processor that hit a speedy 2-teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) in a demonstration.

Computer Science professor Josep Torrellas has a simple explanation for the hardware he developed to fix bugs that can plague a computer processor after it's been shipped by the manufacturer.

Josep Torrellas, a University of Illinois kutatója két év alatt fejlesztette ki azt az eszközt, amely állítása szerint képes helyben kijavítani a processzorok utólag felszínre kerülő hibáit.

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.