Windows Vista's firewall can easily be subverted because of design decisions made by Microsoft Corp., a researcher at Symantec Corp. said Friday.

Since it was sunk 65 years ago today at Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack by the Japanese during World War II, the heavily damaged USS Arizona battleship has been slowly leaking fuel oil from its massive collection of now-submerged oil tanks into the harbor.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. are planning to replace around 1.3 million batteries manufactured by Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. because they may overheat and catch fire, the companies said Thursday.

Strange bedfellows Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have partnered to simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites' content for indexing in the companies' search engines.

Toshiba Corp. is planning to buy a one fifth stake LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd.'s Polish subsidiary in order to ensure a steady supply of LCD (liquid crystal display) panels for European televisions, it said Tuesday.

An exploit in Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox browser has been found that can hijack the software and monitor submit-and-click events.

Epson has successfully developed A6-size flexible electronic paper using a plastic substrate.

Police in suburban Sydney Thursday arrested a man videotaping a premiere screening of "X-Men 3: The Last Stand," according to the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has been contacted by U.S. Department of Justice investigators looking into price fixing in the computer memory market, the Japanese company said Monday.

Az Egyesült Államok Igazságügyi Minisztériumának nyomozói felvették a kapcsolatot a Mitsubishi Electric képviselőivel, mivel felmerült a gyanú, hogy a vállalat is részt vett a DRAM piacra vonatkozó előzetes ármegállapodásokban.

The number of 3G (third-generation) mobile subscribers is expected to grow quickly in China, despite getting off to a relatively slow start, according to a telecommunications research firm in Beijing.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to double the capacity at its chip foundry subsidiary by the end of this year and become a potent new rival in the made-to-order chip business, a senior Samsung executive said Tuesday.

A federal program that funds "high-risk" technologies is at high risk of going out of business if Congress approves U.S. President George Bush's proposed federal budget for next year. Since it started awarding grants in 1990, the Advance Technology Program (ATP) has distributed some US$2.2 billion in funding to projects focusing on a range of subjects, including information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology and advanced materials.