The developer of miniature projection systems, recently announced a joint agreement to develop a range of display products with Thales, the aerospace & defence company.

Scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone.

Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman has announced plans for a mobile edition of the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. The Ubuntu development community will be collaborating with Intel to make Ubuntu a viable platform for net-enabled mobile and embedded hardware devices.

Social-networking site MySpace, owned by News Corp., has agreed to acquire Photobucket, the Web's number one photo-sharing service, according to a source close to the deal.

Acer does not plan to launch an ultra-low cost PC nor offer versions of the Classmate PC being promoted for developing countries.

HP says it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Germany-based Pelikan Hardcopy Deutschland GmbH related to print cartridge and ink formulation.

The UMPC, at least in the shape we saw these little computers over the past year, will join the Tablet PC in a niche, far away from the eyes of the mass market. The UMPC will disappear from our radar as quickly as it surfaced.

Networking equipment vendor Netgear announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Infrant Technologies.