Oracle Corp. took its bitter rivalry with business applications vendor SAP AG up another notch, filing suit Thursday against SAP alleging violations of U.S. fraud legislation, unfair competition and civil conspiracy.

Nokia Corp. has started shipping its N95 mobile phone in Europe and Asia, the first in an expected series of devices from the Finnish company with built-in GPS (global positioning system) capabilities.

Microsoft Corp. will soon submit a new photo format to an international standards organization that it says offers higher quality images with better compression, the company said on Thursday.

Eighteen months after rival Apple Inc. raised the bar in the music player market with its video iPod, Sony Corp. will launch its first digital video Walkman.

A new version of the Storm e-mail virus is populating blogs and online bulletin boards with links directing people to a Web site that is propagating the worm, representing a new mode of attack for hackers seeking financial gain, according to a security vendor that became aware of the virus Monday night.

Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies Ltd. is taking on Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sandisk Corp. with a patent-infringement lawsuit.

Mozilla Corp. updated Firefox Friday to patch 14 vulnerabilities, three of them critical, but pushed out the new versions without fixing several flaws.

Nikon Corp. updated its Coolpix range of digital still camera on Tuesday with seven new models.

Windows Vista can be used for as long as 120 days without agreeing to its product activation antipiracy software, the company confirmed Friday. That's four times longer than the 30 days the company has widely used as the maximum time span the operating system can be used before it shuts down.

A NETGEAR technológiailag fejlett márkás hálózati termékek világméretű forgalmazója bejelentette, hogy a RangeMax NEXT Wireless-N Router néven futó terméke elnyerte a szigorú tesztsorozatokhoz kötött “Connect with Centrino” minősítést az Intel-től.

One of the major bundled applications with any version of Windows on the server is Internet Information Services. And what a long road it's been since IIS 4, the first version of IIS, which came with Windows NT Server 4.0.

If you can't beat them, join them? Sony Corp. is getting into the iPod accessory market with the U.S. launch of an iPod docking station.

With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft Corp. is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software.

IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. accelerated their horse race in semiconductors when each unveiled at midnight Saturday Eastern Time similar chip-manufacturing advances.

The birthplace of global technology giants including Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. is growing again, adding new jobs for the first time since the dot-com bust.

WinRAR can create multiple-volume archives (popular with file sharers) and use 128-bit AES encryption to password-protect them. Like most of its competition, it also has an option to hide file names inside an encrypted archive: someone without the password won't even see what files you've archived, let alone view their contents.

Name recognition alone makes WinZip the compression program with which all others must compete. Though it's no longer the must-have utility it was in the 1990s, it's still the program people think about when Windows XP's file compression isn't enough.

LG Electronics Inc. has unveiled the fruits of a cell phone design partnership with Italian fashion goods maker Prada SpA.

Adobe Systems Inc. has released Flash Player 9 for Linux, allowing users of the open-source operating system to create or use multimedia applications with the latest version of Flash.

Dell Inc. has launched its first semirugged notebook PC and plans to compete with Hewlett-Packard Co. and Panasonic for customers who need a computer that can cope with abusive vibration, humidity, altitude and dust.