Via Technologies Inc. is a company that takes pride in bursting illusions, such as the idea the new ultramobile PCs would only come equipped with Intel Corp. microprocessors. Instead, it appears that any x86-based processor will do.

About 120 folks are gathering Friday at a town hall meeting to discuss the future of a fairly new initiative called the Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI).

Intel Corp. will roll out a succession of computing platforms that build on the efficiency gains it achieved with a new family of dual-core processors, company executives announced at their trade show this week.

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.

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the first three devices developed around the new ultramobile PC form factor they teamed up to develop over a year ago in a project code-named Origami.

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.

The amount of malware coming from China rose 153 percent during the last six months of 2005, Symantec Corp. reported Tuesday.

Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday announced it will acquire SyPixx Networks Inc. for US$51 million in cash and options.

Never mind worrying about hackers stealing your password. A security researcher with the Finnish military has shown how they could steal your fingerprint, by taking advantage of an omission in Microsoft Corp.'s Fingerprint Reader, a PC authentication device that Microsoft has been shipping since September 2004.

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday beefed up its line of business notebooks with two new series using dual-core processors from Intel Corp.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will launch a Windows Mobile-based cell phone that packs an 8G-byte hard-disk drive, hitting European markets in the second half of 2006, the company said Monday.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday announced three additions to its family of dual-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations, boosting the speed of the chips to 2.6GHz.

Security will be a major focus this week at the giant Cebit show in Hanover, Germany. This year, the annual IT trade show will hone in on the multiple layers of security threats facing enterprise networks. Now it's not just data networks that are under attack; VoIP and even paper documents are at risk.

Google Inc. has introduced its lowest-priced Google Mini search device to date, in an attempt to capture the most price-sensitive segment of the small-business market.

Facing increased competition throughout its line of processors, chip giant Intel Corp. warned on Friday that its first-quarter revenue would be lower than expected.

Microsoft Corp. Friday asked three U.S. courts to force Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and Novell Inc. to produce documents pertaining to the European Union's (EU's) antitrust case against the software vendor.

Sharp Corp. confirmed Monday that it plans to raise LCD (liquid crystal display) panel production capacity at one of its factories in Japan by 20 percent.

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.

McAfee Inc.'s auditor, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, may be thinking of buying some security software itself, after a Deloitte employee left an unencrypted CD containing sensitive information on thousands of McAfee employees in the back of an airline seat last December.

Symantec Corp. Friday said it has reached an out-of-court agreement in its adware lawsuit against New York-based Hotbar.com Inc. The deal calls for Symantec to dismiss its suit, but continue to classify Hotbar's program files as low-risk adware.