Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will spend US$2.5 billion to expand its chip manufacturing plants in Dresden, Germany, to keep pace with growing demand for its PC and server chips, the company announced Monday.

Prices for LCD TVs are falling at a slower pace this year, but consumers will still enjoy significant price drops for the next few years, market researcher DisplaySearch said Friday.

A Hitwise piackutató vállalat szerint a tavaly alakult YouTube.com bizonyult messze a legnépszerűbb videofeltöltő oldalnak, hiszen az összes látogató 43%-át csábította magához. A viszonylag ismeretlen nevű cég így jócskán megelőzte a második helyen álló MySpace-t és olyan neves vetélytársakat is, mint a Yahoo, az MSN vagy a Google.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will next month launch two portable computers that use flash memory in place of a hard-disk drive for data storage, the company said Tuesday.

A Belgian company has refiled a lawsuit over search terms offered by Google Inc.'s toolbar that directs users to pirated software.

A weather-tested computer that runs on a car battery. A PC that looks like your generic VCD player. These are some of the tools Intel Corp. thinks would allow more people in more places to get access to PCs.

"There is growing evidence that more people these days don't work from a physical workplace, but work from home or other places," says David Thorns, director of the social science research center at the University of Canterbury.

A legfrissebb internetes trend a social networking, azaz olyan hálózatok, melyek baráti, ismerősi csoportokat kötnek össze. Az eddigi piacvezető MySpace, valamint a további szereplők mellé most a Microsoft is szeretne felzárkózni, sőt, jóval nagyobb tervei is vannak.

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.