For all the fanfare surrounding the launch of Intel's Centrino Atom chip package at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, there was a notable shortage of new products based on the chips, apart from a few concept designs rolled out for the occasion.

Samsung's Anycall Haptic looks like a thinner version of Apple's iPhone, but adds a new dimension to the touch interface.

SAP reported a 10 percent rise in revenue for the fourth quarter, but earnings fell 6 percent compared to a year earlier, dragged down in part by the cost of launching Business ByDesign, a new offering for the mid-market, the company said Wednesday.

Dell is expected on Monday to add a new series of blade products to its PowerEdge server line, expanding its presence in a market dominated by rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

Google released on Wednesday an iPhone application that puts Google's numerous services into a single interface on a navigation toolbar. Over time, the application will be available for other mobile devices, said Gummi Hafsteinsson, a product manager with the Google mobile team.

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday is expected to launch the 'Spider' platform, which combines the company's next-generation quad-core processors, graphics cards and chipsets in one platform to deliver better graphics, performance-per-watt and improved high-definition video.

The iPhone-like handset that LG Electronics unveiled at August's Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) trade show is now on sale in Europe, the company said Monday.

Ten years ago this week Sony Corp. launched its first Vaio laptop computers. The PCG-705 and 707 went on sale in Japan on July 1 and were followed quickly by a desktop PC, as Sony tried to show the world that a consumer electronics company could make computers.

Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system.

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday started limited beta offerings of Windows Live file and photo sharing services.

Apple Inc. will launch its iPhone in the U.S. on June 29, it said in TV commercials that began airing on Sunday.

Dell Inc. will officially launch its first three consumer PCs running the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux OS on Thursday, two desktops and an Inspiron E1505n notebook PC.

Dell Inc. is planning to sell its first convertible tablet PC later this year. The PC maker revealed that it is working on the machine and showed a prototype of it on a company blog.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will make a quad-core chip for desktop PCs, replacing its venerable Athlon processor with the new "Phenom" design in an attempt to compete better with Intel Corp.

Intel Corp. launched the "Santa Rosa" upgrade of its Centrino notebook platform Wednesday, running on PCs from Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Gateway Inc. and others.

A string of payment card issuers have confirmed that they will introduce contactless "wave and pay" cards from September in the U.K.

Advanced Micro Systems Inc. introduced a new chipset for mobile computing on wireless networks Wednesday in an attempt to get ahead of similar news expected soon from rival Intel Corp.

Seagate has launched File Recovery for Windows software, designed to recover deleted or damaged files from a Windows disk or USB stick.

Microsoft Corp.'s top lawyer said Thursday that he is happy with the information the company provided about its Vista operating system, and its compatibility with existing PCs, ahead of the software's launch in January this year.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Inc. Tuesday jointly unveiled a new online mapping initiative aimed at educating users about genocide.