The growth in malicious software is proving fortuitous for antivirus companies. Analyst firm Gartner Inc. said on Wednesday the industry grew 13.6 percent in 2005, with revenue totaling $4 billion.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will consider later this year if it will launch a high-definition movie player compatible with both the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, it said Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp. this week defended its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool against charges that it acts like spyware because it constantly checks in with Microsoft when a user boots a PC with the tool installed.

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Yahoo Inc. on Thursday launched a new site designed to make it easier for Web users to find and share videos. The site builds on Yahoo's existing video search capability and will compete with video search services from Google Inc., AOL LLC, Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, and other video-sharing sites like YouTube.com and MySpace.com.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will ship four-core processors for servers, workstations and high-end desktops by mid-2007, company Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester said Thursday.

Microsoft Corp. is set to release a fully supported version of its Windows Live OneCare software, marking its entry into the security software market. OneCare will be available for download Wednesday on Microsoft's Web site, a day earlier than expected. By Thursday, the software is expected to be widely available in U.S. retail stores, said Microsoft's Samantha McManus, a business strategy manager with Windows Live OneCare.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will spend US$2.5 billion to expand its chip manufacturing plants in Dresden, Germany, to keep pace with growing demand for its PC and server chips, the company announced Monday.

Flush with success from sealing a deal with Warner Bros. to have some of its movies sold using its Internet file sharing software, BitTorrent Inc. has turned its sights on China.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Tuesday launched its new AM2 CPU socket, bringing support for fast DDR2 memory to the company's desktop processors. As expected, PC World's tests showed negligible performance gains from the new socket, but the change positions AMD for more notable performance gains with future products.

SAP AG officially released on Wednesday its business intelligence (BI) accelerator which it co-developed with Intel Corp. The two companies first announced they were working on the analytical engine a year ago.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) aims to grab notebook PC business from Intel Corp., launching a new line of Turion mobile processors Wednesday.

Sony Corp. will begin selling its first personal computers with Blu-ray Disc drives in Japan in June, the company said Tuesday. Both laptop and desktop computers will be available.

We now have 750GB to play with on the desktop, and multi-terrabyte drives aren't too far off. How are we supposed to archive all that data? We could use 80-plus dual-layer DVDs, or try 30-plus blue laser DVDs. InPhase Technologies Inc. and Hitachi Maxell Ltd. (Maxell) have another answer: holographic storage technology.

With energy efficiency as the standard, Intel Corp. has announced a new multicore architecture that aims to address consumers' increasing need for better price and higher performance per watt for notebooks, desktops, and servers.

A group of self-titled "political activists" in Massachusetts has started an aggressive campaign to get browser users to switch from Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer to Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox.

A software player for Sony Corp.'s LocationFree system that is compatible with Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X is under development by Tokyo-based Kaga Electronics Co. Ltd. and should be available soon, Kaga Electronics said Tuesday.

Some Chinese Internet users aren't happy with Google Inc.'s recently announced Chinese name, and they've started an online petition to express their displeasure.

Dell Inc. moved to solidify its position in the lucrative gaming market Tuesday by launching the XPS M1710, a dual-core processor machine designed to let gamers simultaneously play three-dimensional games while encoding music or scanning for viruses.

Apple Computer Inc. is facing a lawsuit over technology within its popular iPod digital music player and two related applications.