A spike in PC demand has created a new shortage of Intel Corp. chipsets, potentially reviving an issue blamed for causing the company to lose market share to rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) last year.

Open wireless Internet hotspots will soon serve as virtual phone booths, as four manufacturers plan to introduce Wi-Fi handsets for Skype Ltd.'s popular VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephony service this quarter.

Qualcomm Corp. Friday introduced a chip designed to bring mobile television to consumer handsets, the company said.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is showing several new cell phone handsets at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, including models with support for the Blackberry service and with Wi-Fi connectivity, it said Thursday.

Texas Instruments Inc., the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, opened a wireless technology center in South Korea on Tuesday aimed at developing wireless multimedia technologies that can deliver television and other content to handsets.

An unsolicited bulk email campaign for broadband and telephone calling rates may have flushed out a notorious U.S. spammer from a low-profile existence in Auckland.

Google Inc. attorneys will square off against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) at a Feb. 27 hearing over the issue of providing the government with information about searches for pornography on the company's site.