Bain Capital Partners and China's Huawei Technologies have abandoned their bid to buy U.S. networking firm 3Com because of security concerns by the U.S. government, Bain said.

As part of its drive to reduce road deaths and injuries, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. has installed in a car three prototype high-tech systems designed to stop drink driving.

Google Inc. on Monday turned on the solar panels covering nearly all the roof space on its corporate campus and announced that its philanthropic arm plans to dole out over US$10 million in grants to support hybrid cars.

Google Inc. will make the data it stores about end users anonymous in its server logs after 18 months, part of an effort to deflate concerns about privacy raised last month by a European Union working group.

The European Commission Wednesday sent the German government a final warning over the telecom law it passed last year in breach of European rules.

As concerns mount about the commercial viability of Galileo, the European Union's ambitious geopositioning satellite project, pulling the plug isn't an option, said European Commission Vice President Gunter Verheugen on Thursday.

Átadták a 2006-os Magyar Richard Burns Rally Bajnokság legjobbjainak járó díjakat a HungaroKart Centerben rendezett Rallysimfans találkozón.

There's now one more reason to be careful about opening Microsoft Office attachments.

Claiming that IT spending is not contributing to business growth, Gartner said this week that eight out of every ten dollars spent is "dead money".

U.K. government officials doubt whether a national ID program will be ready by 2008 because of procurement and project management concerns, according to a series of leaked e-mails published Sunday.

Napjainkban egyre többen végzik munkájukat tényleges munkahelyükön kívülről, egy másik helyről vagy akár otthonról - állapítja meg tanulmányában David Thorns, a Canterbury Egyetem szociális kutatási központjának vezetője.

"There is growing evidence that more people these days don't work from a physical workplace, but work from home or other places," says David Thorns, director of the social science research center at the University of Canterbury.

Adobe Systems Inc. Monday is releasing software that will allow designers and engineers to save 3D images as PDF (Portable Document Format) files and share those files with anyone who has the free Adobe Acrobat reader, the company said.

Intel Corp.'s poor performance in the last three months of 2005 turned out to be good news for rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., (AMD) which on Wednesday reported better-than-expected financial results for the period. With sales of AMD's microprocessor division increasing nearly 80 percent from the previous year, the company reported revenue of US$1.84 billion.

Microsoft Corp. has issued a patch for a preliminary version of its Vista OS for the same graphics-rendering problem that raised concerns about current versions of the Windows OS earlier this month.