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AMD has expanded its family of low-voltage mobile processors designed to offer high performance, security and mobility for thin and light notebooks. The new Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor offers a 32-bit computing environment with a seamless transition to 64-bit computing ...

A bullish outlook for the third quarter and the rest of the year from Ford Motor Co. helped give stocks a lift to close out the week, but pressure from a spike in oil prices pared the gains ...

The Gnome Foundation today released a new version of its popular Linux desktop. The new release, Gnome version 2.8, boosts speed and usability and offers several new features, the foundation said in a statement ...

Cendant Corporation's Hotel Group and Marriott International today announced the signing of a letter of intent for Cendant to purchase Ramada International Hotels & Resorts, primarily a franchised brand of 204 hotels representing 27,728 rooms in 26 countries and territories ...

German software giant SAP has opened a support center in China to serve its customers in China, Japan and Korea, the company said in a statement ...

Microsoft Corp has been sued by California cities and counties that are accusing the Redmond, Washington-based software giant of illegally charging inflated prices for its products as a result of a monopoly control it held on the personal computer operating systems market ...

The Justice Department announced Thursday that its "Operation WebSnare," has resulted in the arrest of more than 100 criminals in the past 3 months throughout the United States ...

Some people are anxious to download and install the Service Pack 2 (SP2) update to the Microsoft XP operating system, but just as many others seem wary of the 80-MB security-focused package and foresee possible problems with it ...

The high-performance capabilities of Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives were validated recently, when Western Digital's Raptor 10,000-RPM SATA outperformed 10,000- and 15,000-RPM SCSI drives from two competitors in separate independent, head-to-head comparison tests conducted by and published in the June issue of Maximum PC magazine and the upcoming July issue of Custom PC magazine...

In an appearance at the Wireless Communications Association conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, telecom entrepreneur Craig McCaw announced his plans to launch a nationwide broadband wireless network using spectrum and technologies his holding company has been assembling over the last year ...

Intel announced today it is working with CollabNet to release the Foundation code of Intel's next-generation firmware technology under the Common Public License (CPL) later this year. More than 20 years old, the BIOS -- the Basic Input-Output System -- is one of the oldest software technologies in the PC platform. It operates in the preboot environment, which is the first few seconds after a PC is turned on and before the operating system loads...

Fujitsu said the company has formed a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems in the Unix server business to minimize its exposure to this segment amid the ongoing shift to Linux servers ...

Sony today said it will stop developing and selling new handheld PDAs in the United States this year, exiting what the company called "a market in decline" and possibly striking a blow to software maker PalmSource. ...

Microsoft's most recent attempt to push the Lindows name out of the marketplace has been thrown out of a Netherlands court. ...

Police in Taiwan arrested Wang An-ping, a 30-year-old man who admitted to authoring a Trojan application later used to steal information from government computers. Wang reportedly told police that he developed the software as a commercial venture but eventually posted the code for free on the Web, including to some Chinese-language hacking sites ...

Macromedia has announced Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux. This new version of Macromedia Flash Player is said to offer improved performance and security and powerful new development capabilities. Macromedia Flash Player is bundled with Linux operating systems distributed by Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and Turbolinux ...

Today at its TechEd conference, Microsoft announced agreements with an initial group of appliance partners to extend Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server) 2004 to customers who want all those features in a dedicated hardware package. ISA Server 2004, part of Windows Server System, is an application-layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN) and Web cache software technology designed to enable customers to improve network security and performance...

Microsoft's trademark infringement case against Lindows will go to trial after a federal appeals court denied the world's largest software maker's appeal. Microsoft had filed an appeal earlier this year, just before both parties were to meet in the courtroom, over whether the word "windows" can be considered a generic term as it is used by the public today.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued Richard Grasso on Monday, seeking the return of millions of dollars the former head of the New York Stock Exchange is alleged to have received improperly. Spitzer also sued former chairman of the NYSE's compensation committee, Ken Langone, and said the process used to determine Garsso's pay was "rigged" and that Langone had knowledge of at least $18 million in compensation that was not reported to the board.

At its latest conference for developers, Microsoft announced a technical preview of Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework, and the release of Web Services Enhancements 2.0. The company also previewed Visual Studio 2005 Team System, a collection of tools designed to help software development. "[IBF and WSE] are two of the absolute biggest releases we've ever done in terms of improving developer performance," Steve Ballmer told the audience. "But the biggest is Visual Studio 2005 Team System," which will ship in 2005.