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Former eMachines owner Lap Shun Hui has offered to buy the retail operations of PC maker Gateway, to whom he sold his firm in 2004, for US$450 million ...

With multiple delays and dropped components for its next-generationVistaoperating system,Microsoft has stirred up plenty of confusion and criticism amongsoftware developers ...

Cisco sealed a deal this week to buy another consumer-oriented technology company, this time acquiring video-on-demand player Arroyo Video Solutions for US$92 million ...

Palm is aiming to make its next Treo handheld available in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season. It will unveil the new Treo based on the Windows Mobile operating system by year's end, the firm has vowed ...

Sony will continue to rule the video game kingdom through 2011 with its Playstation 3 console, research firm Yankee Group forecast this week. However, it will be sharing more of the market with Microsoft and Nintendo as growth slows for unit shipments among consoles overall ...

Following last month's release of Lotus Notes collaboration software for Linux, IBM this week started supporting the open source platform on desktop and server computers with its enterprise instant messaging solution Lotus Sametime ...

AOL continued its string of acquisitions this week with its purchase of video game publisher GameDaily. The move prompted speculation on AOL's larger strategy, as well as confusion over how the technology and content pieces will fit together for the venerable Internet company ...

On the heels of its recent Suse Linux Enterprise 10 platform release, Novell said it would put its marketing money where its mouth is with a multimedia ad campaign for Linux ...

Virtualization -- the use of multiple instances of operating systems, applications, or other software running on single hardware devices -- comes in many different forms and flavors, but among the most often mentioned of late is XenSource and its open source Xen virtualization technology ...

The United States government began issuing new electronic passports this week that include radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to store citizens' personal information ...

Linspire, a company that is aiming to develop a more mainstream version of Linux, has often taken heat for being less open with itssoftware than other Linux distrubution providers. Now, the San Diego-based firm is inviting criticism again, this time by offering a free version of its Linuxoperating system that includes proprietary drivers and other code intended to deliver better multimedia support. The company launched Freespire 1.0 last week...

Advanced Micro Devices rolled out new and improved versions of its dual-core Opteron server processors this week, touting better power efficiency and virtualization capabilities ...

PalmSource this week announced that it will push its new software library, which is part of the Access Linux Platform, into the open source developer community ...

Microsoft announced on Monday a new set of development tools aimed at allowing the average user to create game content for its Xbox 360 console ...

In yet another sign that the Hollywood studios are getting more comfortable with the idea of digital distribution for films, the DVD Copy Control Association (CCA) announced changes to the industry's encryption system which will allow some legitimate movie DVD burning ...

In an effort to reach out to open source developers, Apple Computer this week said it will release buildable kernel source code for Intel-based Macs, beginning with code for Mac OS X, version 10.4.7. The firm previously released similar code for its PowerPC-based Macs ...

Rockstar Games, the maker of the popular but controversial video game series "Grand Theft Auto," is roughing up the industry yet again with its coming new title, "Bully." ...

Microsoft demonstrated at the DVD Forum in Los Angeles this week a new high-definition DVD (HD DVD) drive add-on for the Xbox 360 gaming console. The device is the company's answer to Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 (PS3), which features an integrated media disc drive using the rival Blu-ray format ...

Sony is looking to take advantage of the popularity of instant messaging (IM) with its new handheld device unveiled this week. The Sony Mylo is capable of IM and Internet access through any available, open wireless network ...

The wireless data transfer capabilities of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are intended to speed and assist transactions, but it appears the RFID chips of new U.S. passports are speeding and assisting circumvention, according to a German expert's demonstration at last week's Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas ...