3M has sued Sony, Lenovo and Matsushita Industrial Electric, condemning them of having infringed upon patents for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Under the lawsuit, the company has also requested US International Trade Commission to block US imports of the batteries or laptop...

Japanese electronic game designer, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto spoke about Nintendo's newest social networking channel, Mii at the Game Developers Conference of 2007, (GDC) in San Fransisco. This channel will compete with other social networking sites like MySpace...

IBM has completed its acquisition of Softek Storage Solutions Corporation, a privately held company based in Virginia. Through this acquisition, IBM is assembling the complete and unified data mobility offerings and worldwide delivery expertise for managing data in storage array, host...

Music industry giants are suing Yahoo! China for alleged copyright infringement. According to the suit, Yahoo! China was helping users download music illegally by providing links to unlicensed music in its search results...

Christopher Payne, the head of Windows Live Search, the Microsoft search engine is quitting the firm to start his own business. Microsoft has also said that the other person in charge of the Windows search project Blake Irvingtoo is leaving the company...

Sony is planning to unveil the PlayStation 3 online service dubbed PlayStation Home. The service runs on the lines of Microsoft's Xbox Live. The service will be packed with features such as achievement lists, and friends lists and the like. The service will also have facilities...

China seems to be of the opinion that the banning of the Internet in the country will solve internet addiction and juvenile crime. China has gone ahead and banned any new Internet cafes from being opened this year. "In 2007, local governments must not sanction the opening of new internet bars"...

In a readymade remark that Microsoft intends to submit to the Association of American Publishers, Microsoft senior official Thomas Rubin says that Google's plans to offer scanned pages of copyrighted books is coming at the cost of publishers and authors.

The world’s second largest microprocessor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Monday said its revenue for the first quarter of 2007 will not be as expected.

Nokia, the finnish mobile phone giant is in talks to acquire Palm, the US based maker of PDA and Treo smartphones. Just a month ago, Palm announced its intention to sell if it found a good deal.

In a first of its kind deal, British Broadcasting Corporation, commonly called as the BBC has tied up with YouTube to launch three channels on one of the world’s most viewed sites. The channels will contain entertainment clips and short videos produced by the entertainment arm of the BBC...

After Dell announced last year that it was recalling batteries made by Sony due to fears of short circuit and over heating, here comes another news of its rival Sanyo now recalling batteries used in laptops manufactured by Chinese company Lenovo in its ThinkPad brand of laptops.

Google is shying away from circulating reports about building an R&D centre in Singapore. Ironically, Google’s web site has posted the availability of an opening for the director of such a centre. On the contrary, the Singapore's Straits Times reported...

AOL has plans to acquire a mobile advertising company called Third Screen Media. The financial details of the deal has not yet been confirmed, thought the reported figure stands at USD 80 million. Many big names like Google and Yahoo are aggressively...

Apple and Cisco have finally arrived on common ground as they waved a white flag at each other signaling peace over the 'iPhone' trademark squabble. Both the companies have decided to share the name. Under the terms of the agreement, both the companies are...

The world’s largest automotive company General Motors has awarded AT&T a five-year global networking contract worth nearly USD 1 billion. The agreement is one of the largest commercial contracts in AT&T’s history. Under the agreement, AT&T will deliver next-generation...

Google has been put in a spot as it lost a copyright lawsuit to Belgian newspapers that had asked the company to remove headlines and links to articles posted on its news site without their permission. Google claims that they will appeal as it feels they were completely...

Children in the under developed countries will soon have access to the USD 100 laptop. The plan to develop a 100-dollar laptop for distribution to millions of schoolchildren in developing countries has caught the interest of many governments and the attention of computer-industry heavyweights...

Samsung has resolved to pay USD 90 million to settle civil charges of price fixing brought against it by 41 US states. The price-fixing in the Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) industry gets murkier as a fifth executive in December 2006 had gotten snagged in the scandal. Hwan Park...

Viacom had asked YouTube to remove copyrighted clips from the online video source. The amount of video clips to be removed adds up to a staggering 100,000. Viacom claims that YouTube has not set up content filters that allow allow the copyright holders of videos to know when clips have been...