Microsoft Corp. is quietly adding services to its Windows Live portfolio to compete with services Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. already have in place.

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.

Multimedia developer Jered Cuenco calls it the "gray-box application" phenomenon: A Web developer, befuddled by a graphic designer's computer-drawn mock-ups, delivers a prototype full of generic gray buttons, plain white backgrounds, oversized headlines and other crimes against visually interesting user interfaces.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk (SSD), a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives, and is showing it at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, this week.

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.

IBM Corp. plans to unveil a server, storage, networking and software bundle based on its BladeCenter servers targeting the retail market Monday. Known as the Systems Solutions for Retail Stores, the bundle follows similar packages IBM has already announced for the banking industry and small to midsize businesses.

When 21-year-old British student Alex Tew needed to raise money to pay for his university, he came up with an idea many might dismiss as wishful thinking: raise US$1 million by selling 1 million pixels worth of advertising space on his Web site for $1 each.

A HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) csatolófelület képességeiben még olyan tartalékok rejlenek, amelyek még a mostaninál is jobb kontrasztot és kisebb sávkialakítást eredményezhetnek a jövőben megjelenő új HD-televíziók és monitorok esetében.

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.

A Nemzeti Hírközlési Hatóság (NHH) Tanácsa 15 millió forintos bírságot vetett ki a T-Mobile Magyarország Távközlési Rt.-re, mert a társaság nem teljesítette a piacelemzési eljáráshoz kapcsolódó adatszolgáltatási kötelezettségét, és ezzel hátráltatta a Tanács munkáját. A Tanács egyben kötelezte a T-Mobile-t, hogy 2006. január 5-ig teljesítse az adatszolgáltatást.