Plextor, perhaps best known to Mac users for its external optical drives and personal video recorder (PVR) devices, has entered the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with the introduction of its PX-EH line. Prices start at US$299.

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.

Business application vendor SAP AG is adding a new support service targeting customers who want more than the company's standard offering, but not its pricier high-end service product.

Microsoft Corp. has finished development on Windows Vista and expects to ship the product by the end of the year, around the same time venerated Windows development leader Jim Allchin said he will retire from the company. But Allchin said Friday he is willing to put off both of those events if Windows Vista doesn't reach a standard of quality with which he is comfortable.

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.

Antivirus vendors are warning of a rapidly-spreading worm that is carrying a potentially destructive set of instructions. The Nyxem worm - also nicknamed the Kama Sutra worm - is programmed to overwrite all of the files on computers it infects on Feb. 3, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure Corp.

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 professzionális videós szakembereknek készült, új programcsomag a Video Collection utóda, immár a Creative Suite termékcsalád tagjaként nyit új távlatokat.

Taiwan's legislature has passed a resolution asking the government to reduce its purchases of Microsoft Corp. products by 25 percent this year, a further sign the world's largest software company is running into resistance in Asia.

A nyílt forráskódú szoftvereket népszerűsítő nonprofit szervezet, a Free Standars Group a múlt héten új labort nyitott Pekingben, Kínában, hogy ezzel is elősegítse a Linux termékek disztribúcióját és fejlesztését, valamint, hogy igazolják, hogy ezen tevékenységek megfelelnek a Linux Standard Base (LSB) szabványokban leírt követelményeknek.

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.

If you're a producer for a third-rate variety television show, you're not going to like PCs with Intel Corp.'s Viiv logo, according to the head of the company's digital home group.

The drive to replace DVD technology with newer discs boasting greater storage capacity has come down to two major competing formats, and the coming marketplace battle will be bad for companies and users, the head of a major U.S. technology products retailer said Friday.

Több héten át tartó, kifejezetten magyar hálózati szakembereknek szánt internetes játékot indít a japán hálózatieszköz-gyártó Allied Telesyn. A cég hazai képviselete többek között ezzel a lépéssel kívánja növelni a csúcstechnológiai ismeretek terjedését.

A Samsung Semiconductor szerint a népszerű NAND flash memóriák jóval többre használhatók. Tavaly gyakorlatilag csak az Apple iPod zenelejátszójában használták fel őket.

A Maxtor lerántotta a leplet legújabb OneTouch III sorozatba tartozó külső merevlemezéről, mely akár egy terabájtos kapacitással is kapható. Egyes modellek máris megvásárolhatóak.

Two of the world's largest manufacturers of LCD (liquid crystal display) panels have started making screens at new factories that should enable them to cut manufacturing costs and so lead to further price reductions in big-screen, flat-panel televisions.