Worldwide server revenue remained flat at US$12 billion in the first three months of the year, bucking several consecutive quarters of year-on-year growth, research firm Gartner Inc. said Tuesday.

Thirty-five percent of the packaged software installed on PCs worldwide in 2005 was pirated, the same percentage as in 2004, according to a study released Tuesday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

In an unprecedented move, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday simultaneously released beta versions of its three major upcoming software releases -- Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Windows Server, code-named Longhorn.

Google Inc. will soon begin selling video advertisements on the Web, opening a new front in its battle for a bigger slice of the online advertising market.

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.

Flush with success from sealing a deal with Warner Bros. to have some of its movies sold using its Internet file sharing software, BitTorrent Inc. has turned its sights on China.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Tuesday launched its new AM2 CPU socket, bringing support for fast DDR2 memory to the company's desktop processors. As expected, PC World's tests showed negligible performance gains from the new socket, but the change positions AMD for more notable performance gains with future products.

Despite some predictions that World Cup soccer fever could send prices of LCD TVs higher this month, the screen component just got cheaper, a trend that should continue to make products more affordable to users.

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has been contacted by U.S. Department of Justice investigators looking into price fixing in the computer memory market, the Japanese company said Monday.

Last week's firing of a prominent Chinese academic for faking the development of one of China's best-known chips is an embarrassing setback for a government that sees high-technology research and development as key to the country's economic future.

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

In a surprise move, Dell Inc. on Thursday announced it will use Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) in its high-end, multiprocessor servers by the end of the year.

Symantec on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging that the software giant violated a contract over the use of intellectual property and used the technology to develop a competing product.

SAP AG officially released on Wednesday its business intelligence (BI) accelerator which it co-developed with Intel Corp. The two companies first announced they were working on the analytical engine a year ago.

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.

Microsoft Corp.'s Bill Gates will detail on Wednesday how the company is adding search capabilities in its enterprise software, emphasizing how employees waste time trying to find information.

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will release a beta version of Windows Media Player 11, a more stylish version of its media software that mimics the sleekness of its main competitor, Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) aims to grab notebook PC business from Intel Corp., launching a new line of Turion mobile processors Wednesday.

AOL LLC is letting users test a new security tool that analyzes their PCs and home networks and alerts them about gaps that could leave them vulnerable to viruses, worms, spyware and other threats.

Instant messaging as a communication tool for business is on the rise, said Lee Weiner, senior product manager at Symantec Corp.