TECHNOLOGY

Three big tech companies, HP, Intel and IBM, put their money into funding start-ups as part of a White House campaign.

Market analysts are of the view that the Intel's chipset issue could hurt the personal computer (PC) shipments in the first quarter.

German chipmaker Infineon and British chip designer ARM Holding expect semiconductor demand to remain robust after a strong quarter, signaling stability for the notoriously volatile sector.

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it would fully refund customers who had purchased its personal computers with flawed chipset from Intel Corp.

Social networking site Facebook plans to launch a third party commenting platform that could position the site as an engine behind the comments system on many high-profile blogs and digital publications.

Amazon Web Services LLC plans to make Oracle Database 11g available through Amazon Relational Database Service during the second quarter of 2011.

German chipmaker Infineon on Tuesday raised its outlook for its fiscal year through September 2011, anticipating strong growth in its automotive and industrial divisions.

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim said on Monday he plans to boost his investment in Mexico this year by about 20 percent to $3.6 billion, with telecoms, mining and infrastructure taking center stage.

Wi-LAN has reached settlements with six companies in a wireless patent dispute and expects to reach deals with six others involved in the case before the February 2 trial date, the patent-licensing company said on Monday.

IBM wants to dislodge Microsoft's desktop-bound business software by touting an update of its Lotus programs designed to harness the mobility and collaboration possible with cloud computing.

Reports are emerging that a Google executive has gone missing in Egypt.

Intel Corp found a defect in one of its chips, hurting its credibility during a major product launch and at a time when demand for microprocessors in PCs is being threatened.

Intel Corp on Monday cut its first quarter revenue forecast by $300 million due to the costs associated with correcting a design flaw it discovered in one of its chips.

Intel Corp cut its first-quarter revenue forecast by $300 million on Monday because of costs associated with correcting a design flaw it discovered in one of its chips.

The iPad 2 will include a pair of cameras and thinner, less reflective screen, a report says.

Intel says the problem, which will cost the company one billion overall, would have impacted a limited number of systems but still didn't meet its quality standards.

Intel says one of the support chip sets on its Sandy Bridge processor is flawed and needs to updated.

A Canalys report finds that Android overtook Nokia's Sybian operating system for the first time last year, topping offerings from Nokia and Apple.

Closed systems can't be successful indefinitely, says Patrick Lo, CEO of Netgear.

India rejected on Monday Research In Motion's offer to allow it only partial access to its BlackBerry data services as neighboring Pakistan also moved to restrict the popular smartphone's services.

The company releases launch specs on its first 4G tablet.

Barnes & Noble's attempt to beat Amazon's Kindle resulted in Nook Color, the Rolls Royce of eReaders on which recently a developer ported the tablet specific Android 3.0 or Honeycomb.

Google would hire several software developers to create new applications (apps) for its Android operating system, according to a report from Wall Street Journal.

The Egyptian government has abruptly shut down Internet, the main access point that can help people communicate with the outside world. But all is not lost as a few hackers have come across a solution to the nationwide shutdown.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has confirmed the speculations that the repeated delays of the white version of the iPhone 4 was indeed due to light leakage problems in connection with the phone's camera.

Japan's Toshiba Corp more than doubled its quarterly operating profit on booming sales of NAND flash memory chips and robust demand for LCD panels used in smartphones and tablets.

For pick pockets here's a dare, London's luxury goods firm Dunhill has launched a virtually indestructible biometric wallet, that no one can steal and if by chance they steal, they can't open.

Netflix is set for integration with social networking site.

Japanese PC memory maker Elpida Memory <6665.T> will buy all the DRAM chips made by Taiwan's Powerchip <5346.TWO> as it looks for alliances to bolster its competitiveness in a market torn by oversupply and depressed prices.