Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the "One Laptop Per Child" initiative, accused chip maker Intel of undermining the OLPC by selling its own cut-price laptop, the Classmate. Negroponte claims that Intel is trying to drive him out of the market.

After gaining ground for a couple months, Microsoft's search business lost market share in April, while Google and Yahoo posted gains, according to statistics released Monday by Nielsen/NetRatings.

Mitsubishi introduces DLP and LCD TVs, highlighted by its Diamond Series, with thin frame bezel design for optimizing screen size.

Mitsubishi, with its sights set squarely on 1,080p, said it will roll out nine DLP rear-projection HDTVs and eight LCD flat-panel HDTVs through late summer. “Our focus is on large DLP and on premium LCD,” said the company’s vice president of marketing, Frank DeMartin.

Faced with a growing onslaught of hacker attacks against its products, Microsoft has improved the security capabilities in its latest server software offering.

Although the absolute price of broadband in many developed countries is more expensive than in most developing countries, residents of China, Turkey and Spain pay more for high-speed Internet when measured as a percentage of income.

Ericsson. Nokia and other foreign network vendors need to start taking China's home-grown 3G mobile standard more seriously, or risk missing out on the country's shift to 3G warned a senior Chinese industry official.

China's Ministry of Information Industry has approved the use of third generation mobile phone standards WCDMA and CDMA2000, which rival China's homegrown TD-SCDMA standard. The WCDMA is considered to be European, the CDMA2000 American and the TD-SCDMA Chinese.

Taiwanese manufacturer BenQ has signed a memorandum of intent (MoI) to sell its plant in northern Brazil that produces mobile phone handsets.

Scandal-battered Siemens has turned to an outsider in its search for a new chief executive, naming a top US health care industry executive as its new leader.

At SID 2007, Samsung Electronics is showing 70-inch 120 Hz full-HD LCD, flexible color e-paper display and 40-inch LED-backlit display. The maker first introduced the 70-inch model at CES 2007. The flexible display was recently rolled out while the 40-inch LED-based display was shown at ICDL 2007.

In a bid to boost its presence in advertising, Microsoft said that it will pay US$6 billion to acquire Aquantive, a digital marketing and services company.

Metalink Ltd., which provides wireless and wireline broadband communications technology, said Wednesday it opened a new regional office and design center in Taiwan to support local partners and customers. The Israeli company said the 12-person office, which will include research, sales and support workers, will be headed by Alister Chu, who previously served as a manager for biometrics technology company AuthenTec.