Samsung and Microsoft have entered into a broad patent cross licensing agreement. Samsung Electronics is the largest publisher of United States patents in 2006 and owner of one of the largest US patent portfolios. The companies expect the agreement to accelerate...

The memory chip market seems to be slumping, with players in the market getting hit. Samsung’s profit margins have been hip due to the slump in this market arena. Samsung is one of the largest manufacturers of the Dynamic RAM (DRAM) chips used in computers and NAND...

Indian Infotech giant, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has bagged a USD 100 million deal with Bank of China (BOC) to provide technology solutions. This deal is spread over five years. This move indicates an aggressive strategy to expand operations in China...

Microsoft has revealed that its sales in China might surpass 20 per cent this year. The rise is due to the unveiling of new products and a proactive measure to deal with software piracy. China has been repeatedly criticised against in the past recent...

In the midst of Microsoft receiving laurels for the success of Vista, its new operating system, with regards to record sales. Some users are complaining about long start-up, shutdown and application load times compared with Windows XP...

The cross-licensing agreement between Qualcomm and Nokia has caused a huge rift between the two companies as they continue to point fingers at each other. This long-drawn out battle seems to threaten the future of wireless technology, as the there are a colossal...

Google has wheeled out My Maps. This tool collaborates with Google's mapping service, Google Maps. This provides users a simple way of tailoring the charts with virtual stick pins and pointers into which photos, information and videos can be stored...

Google is targeting the advertising market both online and offline rather aggressively. The company has launched an advertising platform that wants to emulate the success the company has had in the advertising arena online to the realm of digitally encoded TV...

Taiwan's Acer has set its eyes on Chinese rival Lenovo to become the world's No. 3 PC maker. Acer CEO J.T. Wang says Acer will surpass Lenovo by late 2007 as the world’s third most dominant PC brand.
Acer’s market share has gone up to 6.8 per cent...

More than 80 per cent of IT decision makers worldwide, including CIOs, IT directors and IT managers, view Business Continuity and Availability (BC&A) as an increased priority for 2007 as compared to 2006 and key to sharpening their competitive business edge worldwide...

In its latest forecast of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) trends for the Asia/Pacific Excluding Japan (APEJ) market, IDC predicts a sustained but moderate growth from 2007 to 2011 as the region embraces BPO in business operations. In-depth findings are published...

YouTube, has sought shelter under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), said Viacom general counsel Michael Fricklas. According to him, YouTube has no right to defend its position claiming that YouTube’s customers are unaware that copyright breaching takes place on the site...

An important by-product of the escalating importance of technology in business is the growing need for talented and 'business-aware' IT professionals. Business software provider SAP...

Wikipedia has received a jolt as two of its senior executives have just quit the free online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is undergoing certain re-organisations after the resignation. Danny Wool, and Brad Patrick, general counsel and interim executive director, have given in their...

Microsoft is taking pains to keep its Soapbox video-sharing site free of copyrighted material. The company has decided to use technology that would note videos uploaded by users that might have copyright limitations. Soapbox was launched last month; it is similar to Google’s YouTube...

Google has purchased in-game advertising company, Adspace. The market for advertising within video games is soon becoming a hotbed to tap market share. This move also throws to the forefront the never-ending battle between Google and Microsoft. In this case the battleground is in the realm of advertising inside video games...

Sony's chief executive has said that the company does not want to miss out on opportunity when it comes to the iPhone. The company’s CEO believes it lost a lucrative opportunity when it came to the iPod. According to sources, the Japanese company’s first expat CEO Sir Howard Stringer...

Desktop shipments are showing signs of slowing down as notebooks surpass them in sales, IDC said in a statement. According to the research firm PC shipments in the fourth quarter came upto 7.3 per cent. The same period the previous year saw a 15 per cent growth rate...

A prolonged copyright infringement spat between chipmakers Qualcomm and Broadcom has finally come to an end as their lawsuits were dismissed. Qualcomm has decided to withdraw six remaining charges against Broadcom, and Broadcom withdrew three of its claims...

BenQ investigators have apprehended Taiwan based mobile phone and computer maker BenQ Corporation's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), regarding an investigation at the alleged insider trading by company executives. Taiwan’s Taoyuan District Court has allowed the detaining...