Microsoft recently announced that the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) is considering standardization of the company's HD Photo file format.

Sony has already been slapped with patent suits over the construction of its PlayStation 3 Blu-ray discs and the system's digital security technology. Now the electronics giant is being taken to court over the parallel processing Cell chip that powers its latest console.

The US Federal Communications Commission recently set rules for an upcoming sale of airwaves that may reshape the wireless industry, handing Google a partial victory in its push for open access.

Wikia has purchased the Grub Web crawler tool from LookSmart to develop its open search engine. Wikia also has released Grub under an open source license.

Panasonic recently announced its new HDC-SD5 and HDC-SX5 high-definition camcorders.

Creative Technology announced that it has extended the date for voluntarily delisting its Ordinary Shares from NASDAQ, with August 31, 2007 as the last day of trading on NASDAQ.

All things being equal, a CMOS sensor costs somewhere between 5 and 15 percent less to build than a CCD sensor, but Kodak is interested in the CMOS market more because it also can incorporate some processing tasks, said Michael DeLuca, Kodak's marketing manager for image sensors. For example, it can incorporate circuitry for basic sensor functions such as analog-to-digital conversion or chip timing, he said. And in the longer run, it could house circuitry for reconstructing full-color images from sensors using Kodak's new color filter patterns

Chinese authorities and the FBI broke up the world's largest piracy syndicate, which produced counterfeit Symantec and Microsoft software. In China, some 290,000 discs were seized, worth US$500 million, as well as US$7 million in other assets, the FBI said. In the US, the agency's Los Angeles office confiscated $2 million in counterfeit software, plus US$700,000 in other assets.

The One Laptop Per Child Foundation's chief technology officer, Mary Lou Jepsen, said on Monday that the computer could sell initially for about $350, or twice its production cost, although the group is also considering a higher price tag. Its entry to the commercial market would be a challenge to traditional PC industry companies, including Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo

The laptop will be manufactured in Shanghai by Quanta. The production line will be turned on in August for testing procedures, and the first mass-produced laptops for use in schools will be made in October. The XO laptop, which OLPC plans to sell eventually for $100 per machine, is designed to improve the educational opportunities of children in the developing world. The costs of manufacture are currently estimated by OLPC at $175 per laptop.