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In a move to further extend its reach beyond the desktop, Yahoo on Wednesday said it is making its suite of mobile applications available for phones using Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system ...

Amazon.com has begun peddling Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system on its Web site. The Internet giant is displaying the Vista logo and has priced the software at US$100 to $399. Pricing is similar to what Microsoft currently charges for most versions of Windows XP ...

Google Google has added a new feature to its Book Search program that allows users download and print classic novels and obscure books from the public domain -- for free ...

The WiFi Alliance on Tuesday announced plans to certify interoperability of WiFi products that include baseline features from the developing Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.11n standard in the first half of 2007 ...

StopBadware.org on Monday put AOL's version 9.0 on its "Badware Watch List." The anti-spyware group cites, among other factors, the inclusion of bundled software applications and nondisclosure of additional installed components as reasons for its concern ...

Corel on Monday announced it would acquire InterVideo in an all-cash transaction worth US$196 million ...

Taking another step intoMicrosoft territory,Google on Monday launched Google Apps for Your Domain, a set of free hosted applications targeting small- to mid-sized businesses ...

The confusion around Microsoft's plans to support high-definition protected content in its Windows Vista operating system continued on Friday as conflicting reports flood the news media ...

Microsoft on Thursday took the cover off Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), the last version of the popular browser it expects to release before going live with a final version later this year ...

School children will have to take the "P" out of whatever mnemonic they use to help them remember the solar system's planet lineup. That's because astronomers decided on Thursday to nix Pluto from the group of nine planets under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system ...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday activity carried over from last week into this one as the software giant promised to issue a fix for its latest Internet Explorer security patch, which apparently carries a security bug of its own ...

Microsoft on Tuesday launched a legal campaign against parties that register Web addresses designed to attract visitors by using trademarked terms and common misspellings of more popular domains ...

In a move to compete with Google's controversial book search service, LibreDigital on Tuesday announced a service of its own that allows book publishers to digitally capture and deliver controlled book content online ...

Microsoft is extending an olive branch of sorts to rival Mozilla ...

Samsung Electronics on Sunday announced the first 70-inch LCD panel aimed at the consumer marketplace ...

SanDisk on Monday unveiled the 8-gigabyte Sansa e280, which offers audio, photo viewing and video clip playback capabilities at a price tag of US$249.99 ...

Amid the chatter over fixes included in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release for this month, the software giant quietly announced that two patches in its Aug. 8 security bulletin also pertain to Windows Vista ...

Microsoft on Friday said it added US$16.2 billion to its ongoing share buyback plan, nearly doubling its repurchase authorization to $36.2 billion through June 30, 2011 ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the agency that supervises Internet domain names, has renewed its contract with the United States Department of Commerce to continue to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority function ...

New developments are shaping the high definition DVD landscape. The latest news in the evolving Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format battle comes from Sony, which this week said Japan and the United States will share the same region code for Blu-ray disc players. The company also announced that it has started shipping 50 GB dual layer Blu-ray recordable, write-once media...