Trend Micro announced a definitive agreement to acquire Provilla, a provider of fingerprint-based intelligent endpoint solutions for data leak prevention (DLP) in organizations.

Blu-ray DVD titles outsold rival HD-DVD titles by almost 2-to-1 in the first nine months of the year, but analysts expect additional HD-DVD support and new hit releases to "transform" the high-definition DVD battle score in the fourth quarter.

Bitmicro announced the coming a 2.5-inch, flash-based solid state SATA drive capable of storing up to 416GB of data and sustaining transfer rates of up to 100MB/sec.

Facebook and Microsoft announced that the two companies would expand their advertising partnership and that Microsoft will take a US$240 million equity stake in Facebook's next round of financing at a US$15 billion valuation.

"...OLPC was scheduled to go into production at a Chinese factory in October, but it is now slated to begin by November 12....We had some last-minute bugs and we've resolved them..."

Microsoft has officially announced and released its Xbox 360 Arcade game console system for around US$280.

AT&T is partnering with Napster to offer more than five million songs to its subscribers for downloading. Music through the service will be protected by digital rights management technology. AT&T will announce which devices it will be available on when it launches next month, but the iPhone will not be among them.

"...The results were stronger than expected and came in spite of a slowdown in the rate of growth in sales of the iPod..."

Top cell phone maker Nokia is introducing an upgraded version of a wireless multimedia device without a phone as it takes aim at Apple's iPod Touch.