Intel Corp. Wednesday unveiled its Ultra Mobile platform, also known as McCaslin, designed for ultramobile PCs and other handheld devices, and outlined plans for increased Linux support and a new chip for ultramobile PCs due in 2008.

Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. are expanding a cooperative support offering from the U.S. to 46 other markets.

It may be Valentine's Day but there are no love letters being exchanged between duelling electronic document formats, OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Open XML. Instead, Microsoft Corp., the backer of Open XML, took a public swing at ODF supporter IBM Corp.

Microsoft Corp. has significantly raised what it charges retail customers for technical support for its latest software, Windows Vista and Office 2007, while narrowing the help offered to users.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is presenting a challenge to Red Hat Inc. with competitively priced support in an update of its Solaris 10 operating system, announced Tuesday.

With Intel Corp. processors supporting the company's Virtualization Technology (VT) becoming more pervasive, Linux kernel developers are writing the code to improve hardware virtualization and hence performance.

A BEA Systems szakított az informatikai rendszerek támogatásának hagyományos felfogásával, és olyan support eljárást és ehhez kapcsolódó eszközt hozott létre, amely segítségével a problémák még kialakulásuk előtt észlelhetővé válnak. A BEA Guardian nemcsak a várható nehézségekre, hibákra hívja fel a figyelmet, de javaslatot is nyújt azok megoldására - adta hírül az Alerant Zrt., a BEA-termékek magyarországi disztribútora.

LG Electronics Inc. took a big step on Sunday towards the end of the next-generation DVD format battle with the unveiling of a player and PC drive that support both the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats.

Microsoft Corp.'s Chairman Bill Gates kicked off the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Sunday by unveiling new products that support his company's vision of a world full of connected devices that serve up real-time, personalized content to users.

Over two years in the making, Sun Microsystems Inc. is due to release the latest version of its Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software Monday, placing particular emphasis on the application development platform's support for other scripting languages.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to release a mobile handset next month designed for watching video and supports the DivX video codec.

In continuing efforts to expand its online advertising business, Google Inc. will distribute ad-supported video content from Viacom International Inc.'s MTV Networks to Web sites in its extensive advertising network.

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. 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.

Enterprise users say they are unfazed that support for Microsoft's Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) and Windows Millennium Edition (ME) ends in July 2006.

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.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to launch its first desktop and laptop processors by the middle of the year that support DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory chips, AMD executives said on the sidelines of a news conference at the Cebit IT show in Hanover, Germany.

A new preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, with tabbed browsing, an integrated search box, and RSS support -all features long taken for granted by Firefox users -is now available.

Microsoft Corp. plans to give users a first look at its Office Live hosted service on Wednesday, according to the company. Microsoft plans to offer the service in three versions, one of which will be advertising-supported and free of charge to customers.

Taiwanese chip vendor Via Technologies Inc. Thursday announced a new chipset for Intel Corp. processors that support faster front-side bus and memory technologies.