Kicking off Microsoft's BUILD conference, Steven Sinofsky pitches the company's next generation operating system.

The president of HTC America spoke during a conference on Monday in Seattle.

Japanese firms will team with Samsung to design chips for new smartphones and challenge Qualcomm, the Nikkei newspaper said.

After firing Carol Bartz, directors are evaluating whether to sell Yahoo whole or in parts, the Wall Street Journal reports.

A magistrate judge has ordered that the CEOs of Oracle and Google attend a mediation on Sept. 19.

Intel General Manager Doug Fisher declined to comment on rumors Samsung will buy its open-source OS.

The first major update of U.S. patent law goes to President Obama for his signature.

HTC filed a new suit against Apple and amended two other complaints.

Google hoped that Sun would partner with it to bring Android to market, according to court documents.

Microsoft on Tuesday blacklisted all DigiNotar certificates after seeing active attacks from at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by DigiNotar. The company has released updates for all versions of Windows with the new blacklisted data.

Carol Bartz has been fired from the top job at the struggling search company.

Economic squeeze and changing IT buying habits take their toll.

Baidu recently announced a set of developer tools that analysts said could be the beginnings of a mobile OS.

Apple has already won a court order banning sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany.

The intruders signed forged certificates for targetted domains.

Oracle is accusing Hewlett-Packard of fraud in connection with the companies' settlement agreement over the hiring of former HP CEO Mark Hurd, and wants the pact dissolved, according to a court filing Tuesday.

Apple did not have a global security team, including in China, until March, 2008, when it hired employees from drug company Pfizer, to counter rampant counterfeiting of its products in China, according to a cable leaked by activist group, WikiLeaks.

Hewlett-Packard said it will manufacture more TouchPads in response to "stunning" demand following the company's decision to discontinue the tablets.

VMware CEO Paul Maritz urged customers to think beyond the desktop computer. It is a dead metaphor, he insisted, one ill-suited for today's workforce.

The start of the trial in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over alleged Java copyright and patent violations in the Android mobile OS could be delayed, according to a judge's ruling issued Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.