Wang Xiaoning was imprisoned after distributing pro-democracy writings using Yahoo forums and email accounts.

In another dispute with Samsung before the court, the jury awarded Apple about US$1 billion in damages last month.

Apple's top hardware engineer, Bob Mansfield, is not leaving the company after all and will stay to work on future products, Apple announced Monday.

Troubled Japanese LCD and TV panel maker Sharp said Tuesday it will cut 2,000 jobs domestically, or about 6% of its local workforce, as part of ongoing restructuring efforts.

IBM plans to boost its enterprise social line of software by acquiring Kenexa, a maker of cloud-based human resources applications, the companies said on Monday.

Samsung must pay Apple $1.05 billion for infringing several of its patents in Samsung smartphones and tablets, a California District Court jury decided on Friday.

Dell is offering dedicated servers to build private clouds.

The research firm expects PC shipments to grow by 6.5 percent in 2013.

The FTC clearance was the last antiturst hurdle for the deal which was cleared last week in the U.K.

The loss is due largely to previously announced writedowns, but the company's PC and server business was also weak.

The Fair Labor Association revisited three Foxconn factories to check changes being made to improve their safety and working conditions

Marius Haas, a former head of HP's networking division, will run Dell's enterprise business.

When adjusted for inflation, Microsoft's 1999 record still stands, contends Columbia Journalism Review.

Claims current trends are further increasing the focus on security.

Apple has opposed a government proposed judgment in an e-books price-fixing lawsuit, stating that the judgement seeks to terminate and rewrite its contracts "before a single document has been introduced into evidence, before any witness has testified, and before the court has resolved the disputed facts."

The U.S. government lost a bid on Thursday to withhold some evidence in advance of the extradition hearing for four Megaupload defendants charged with criminal copyright infringement.

IBM is opening its first research center in Africa, capping several years of international marketing by the Kenyan government and visits by IBM officials.

Ecuador's external affairs ministry on Wednesday will present to the country's president the results of its deliberations on the request for asylum from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Competition Commission of India, the country's antitrust agency, is investigating Google for alleged anti-competitive practices following a complaint by a consumer watchdog group, a federal minister told Parliament on Monday, according to the country's Press Information Bureau.

Android continued to increase its dominance of the smartphone market during the second quarter, powered by Samsung's success. Competitor Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers held out for the next iteration of the iPhone, Gartner said Tuesday.