Apple Inc. issued a patch on Tuesday to close the hole found by the winner of a recent hack-the-Mac contest.

IBM Corp. laid off 1,315 U.S. workers from its global services division, a union group under the Communications Workers of America said Tuesday.

Healthy demand for flat-panel televisions and mobile phones helped Japan's Sharp Corp. achieve record sales and profits for a fourth straight year, the company said Wednesday.

The European Parliament made changes to a controversial proposal for a law criminalizing intellectual-property (IP) infringements Wednesday, sparking criticism from all sides in the debate.

Hewlett-Packard Co. has extended its lead over Dell Inc. in personal computer sales according to two industry reports released Wednesday.

Intel Corp. Wednesday unveiled its Ultra Mobile platform, also known as McCaslin, designed for ultramobile PCs and other handheld devices, and outlined plans for increased Linux support and a new chip for ultramobile PCs due in 2008.

Intel Corp. demonstrated its fastest multi-core processor yet at the Spring Intel Development Forum (IDF) in Beijing on Tuesday, an 80-core processor that hit a speedy 2-teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) in a demonstration.

Looking to help users to more easily build low-cost storage options for Solaris-based systems from multiple vendors, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced plans to donate pieces of its storage application software and hardware technology to the OpenSolaris open-source developer community.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Inc. Tuesday jointly unveiled a new online mapping initiative aimed at educating users about genocide.

Any lingering image of Hewlett-Packard Co. as a stodgy company was dispelled Wednesday night in San Francisco as the company called "Game On" in its bid for a piece of the online gaming industry.

In a move to bolster its pending refresh of the Centrino wireless notebook package, Intel Corp. said Wednesday it would add vPro IT management to the bundle, which PC vendors are scheduled to begin selling by June.

Google Inc. plans to invest US$600 million in a new data center in South Carolina, the state government said on Wednesday.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has begun shipping two 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron chip to server vendors, continuing a battle over multicore processing power with Intel Corp., the company said Wednesday.

Larry Sanger's answer to Wikipedia is a new online encyclopedia called Citizendium, which was launched to the public on Tuesday.

Adobe Systems Inc. on Tuesday said it had completely revamped its tools suite for high-end graphics and Web designers by combining, for the first time, products from the former Macromedia and its own portfolio.

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday joined The OpenAjax Alliance, which is focused on accelerating the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX, technologies.

Microsoft Corp. is not planning to release any security updates on Tuesday, one of only a handful of times the company won't have security patches available since its monthly security updates began in 2003, Microsoft said Thursday.

Japan and Russia plan to link their telecommunications networks via a new undersea fiber optic cable, they said late Tuesday. The cable, which is expected to be in place by the end of this year, avoids the area south of Taiwan in which many cables suffered damage after a powerful earthquake last year.

Microsoft Tuesday released a set of six free tools for corporate users focused on assessment, planning, testing and deployment of Windows Vista.

Microsoft Corp. released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday, a free upgrade available for download, in addition to new virtualization licensing for the database.