E-payments may bring convenience to shoppers and retailers alike — but do they also boost the wallet?

Microsoft highlighted a number of customer migrations it says signify that users are gearing up to switch to the year-old OS.

Google is considering bidding alone on coveted airwaves to launch a US wireless network, as a deadline nears to declare bidding plans, sources familiar with the situation said.

Yahoo has settled a lawsuit alleging it aided China's prosecution of several dissidents, in a case that prompted criticism of the company for co-operating with an authoritarian government.

Microsoft has launched a program to help ensure sellers of refurbished PCs will run legal copies of Windows.

The networking site's 'social ads' that draft endorsements on the fly may violate privacy laws.

Microsoft is trying to fight piracy in China by ensuring that more new computers in the region come with genuine copies of Windows pre-installed at the factory.

Without much explanation late yesterday, Microsoft notified the press that it had terminated the employment of its Chief Information Officer, Stuart Scott, for violation of its corporate policies. This after having appeared on stage just seven weeks ago to hold up Microsoft's IT department as a role model for, as he described it, stamping out "shadow IT" agents within corporations, so that they can do more with less.

Google has criticised how the EU Data Protection Directive is being implemented.

Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers announced on Thursday US$16 billion in new investments in China, including manufacturing, investment and educational programs.

When Google announced that its new social-networking initiative would extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land grab for the social web's attention became a whole lot more intense.

Only half an hour after the start of second-round ticket sales for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the online booking system broke down.