Hefty investments in online services and consumer electronics will let Microsoft maintain its historically rapid growth rate, chief executive Steve Ballmer told financial analysts on Thursday.

Staffordshire County Council has developed software that detects and turns off idle PCs and could cut £40,000 per year off the authority's energy bill.

Yahoo says it will make user search data anonymous after 13 months.

Not too long ago, nearly every move that Microsoft made seemed to draw complaints that the company was abusing its market dominance.

Google has invested an undisclosed amount in the British femtocell maker Ubiquisys.

Google has invested in a maker of femtocells, cellular base stations for homes and offices.

David Drummond agrees to pay nearly $700,000 in fines for overstating the revenue of an e-learning company while he was its CEO.

Microsoft said that it expects Windows XP to make up a significantly larger part of sales in the coming year.

Microsoft on Thursday reported a 13 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenue and a 7.3 percent jump in net income.

Greater use of femtocells and picocells, better enterprise tariffs and expanded mobile email are just some of the ways mobile phone operators could try to lure corporates as they look to increase their revenues from business customers.

A European court confirmed on Tuesday that it will rule on 17 September on whether software giant Microsoft broke EU antitrust regulations.

Britain and Ireland have agreed to share more intelligence to counter terrorist plots, such as this summer's car bomb attempts in London.

At Yahoo, there is plenty of talk but no real plan.

The US and the European Union are close to signing an agreement that would allow their satellite navigation systems to work together to provide more accurate images and information.

Verizon's Business unit launches a dedicated optical network business service.

Microsoft's chief operating officer says that Windows Server 2008--formerly code-named Longhorn Server--will be launched next February along with upgrades of SQL Server and Visual Studio.

An appeals court in Pennsylvania has affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit was filed by Gordon Roy Parker, a writer who claimed the search giant infringed on his copyright by archiving a Usenet posting of his and providing excerpts from his Web site in search results.

A Chinese company is suing Google's China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the US search engine's registered Chinese name is too similar to its own and has harmed its operations.

When it comes to class action shareholder lawsuits, the name Milberg Weiss & Bershad could strike fear and contempt among many Silicon Valley companies and a number of Fortune 500 players.

Sale would strengthen Intel's commitment to virtualization and its agreement to run VMware's virtualization software on Intel processors.

Microsoft has issued a statement saying it is "not a party to" the new open-source licence, GPL version 3, apparently in a bid to escape liabilities that could arise when Novell adopts it.

Google and Belgian newspaper group Copiepresse are attempting to resolve the conflict out of court.

Affordable rent, low-cost labour and population literacy are the main reasons why companies still prefer to set up their delivery centres in Indian cities uch as Mumbai and Bangalore. But this offshoring trend is likely to change in the near future, according to a study by IDC.