DRAM (dynamic-RAM) chip makers are forecasting higher prices for DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) memory chips over the next three months, and current trends could mean they'll remain strong all year.

Tokyo taxi passengers will soon be able to start paying for their rides using electronic money, three taxi fleet operators said this week.

McAfee Inc. has jazzed up its Web site with a new online portal designed to help users research a wide range of security problems. Called the McAfee Threat Center, the portal was launched Monday as part of a redesign of the McAfee.com Web site.

A Sun Microsystems nagyjából kétszáz dolgozójától vált meg, akik eddig a Scalable Systems Csoportban tevékenykedtek.

Toshiba Corp. plans to put on sale in Japan in May its first laptop computer with a built-in HD-DVD drive, the company said Monday. The Qosmio G30 is expected to be the first computer available from any vendor with an HD-DVD drive.

Április folyamán kerülnek piacra az első olyan komplett számítógépek, amelyek a "Windows Vista Capable" címkét tartalmazzák, segítve ezzel a felhasználókat eligazodni, hogy mely gépek alkalmasak a Vista futtatására.

Az American Power Conversion (APC) bemutatta új moduláris hűtési megoldásait a nagy teljesítménysűrűségű és ezért fokozott hűtési problémákat jelentő alkalmazások pontos és tervezhető hűtésének támogatásához.

Fujitsu Ltd. expects to begin shipping a 200G-byte hard-disk drive suitable for use in laptop computers in the third quarter of this year, it said Monday.

Microsoft Corp. faces more problems in South Korea after a company sued the U.S. software giant over its bundling of Windows Media Player with the Windows operating system.

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.

Microsoft Corp. Monday announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of BizTalk Server 2006, which will be generally available May 1, according to company executives.

A 2005-ben megjelent céges emblémát sokan plágiumnak kiáltották ki, így a vállalat új logót tervezett.

Az Adobe megjelentette az Adobe XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) Toolkit Version 4.0-t, amely a cég új 'fáljcímkéző' technológiáját képviselő szoftver megjelenés előtti pre-release verziója.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun mass production of 512M-bit DDR (double data rate 2) DRAM (dynamic RAM) chips using an 80-nanometer production process, the company said Monday.

Admitting that this was something that should have happened years ago, Oracle on Monday will make available a graphical database development tool for Oracle databases.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to launch its first desktop and laptop processors by the middle of the year that support DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory chips, AMD executives said on the sidelines of a news conference at the Cebit IT show in Hanover, Germany.

Is Microsoft Corp. planning to announce details of a new portable device code-named Origami later this week? That is the question raised by a Web site called Origami Project.

Imation, a worldwide supplier of removable data storage media, has announced that it has begun its scale-up of manufacturing for HD-DVD and Blu-ray optical recordable media in preparation for product introduction early this year.

IBM Corp. has collaborated with two universities to develop several speech-enabled Web applications for mobile phones, the company said Friday.

A new preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, with tabbed browsing, an integrated search box, and RSS support -all features long taken for granted by Firefox users -is now available.