NEW YORK - Almost 2,000 people trying to qualify as stockbrokers were flunked in last 14 months because of a software error in a test program, the NASD said Friday.
 
The private-sector regulatory group, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers, is notifying 1,882 individuals — about 10 percent of

Microsoft is under the spotlight over its blocking of a prominent Chinese Internet blogger, in the latest case of a major Western technology firm helping Beijing curtail free speech.
 
The MSN Spaces-hosted web log, or blog, belonging to Beijing-based media researcher Zhao Jing was closed down this week after he

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Keeping up with rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Japan’s Toshiba Corp. announced the availability of a 16-gigabit, NAND-based flash memory chip, based on its multi-level cell (MLC) technology.

The part, dubbed the TH58NVG4D4CTG, is said to support 2-gigabytes (GB) of storage by stacking a pair of 8-Gbit chips

LAS VEGAS-- A broader plan for Microsoft's Windows Live services portal is slowly emerging, as a Microsoft spokesperson Thursday detailed the link between Microsoft's Internet-based services and its Windows Media Center Edition OS, intended to give users more access to content on their Media Center PCs.
 
At the International Consumer Electronics

Users of Intel Corp.'s new entertainment platform will soon be able to use Google Inc.'s search technology to locate Internet video, one of several new partnerships as the top chip maker moves from microprocessors into digital home entertainment.

The agreement, announced by the companies on Thursday, will give users of Intel's Viiv-branded

Micromat Inc. has introduced TechTool Protege, a new Mac OS X troubleshooting and diagnostic tool stored on a bootable 1GB Firewire-based flash drive. TechTool Protege is shipping now but will make its public debut at next week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. It costs $229.
 
TechTool Protege combines the latest

Toshiba announced plans Thursday to boost the capacity of its ultra-small .85-inch hard disk drives to 10GB, giving even greater storage space for future small form-factor gadgets including digital music players and miniature automobile GPS systems.

Toshiba's Storage Device Division spilled the plans at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), currently underway in

Although consumer sales represent only a small portion of Dell's total revenue, chairman and founder Michael Dell believes high growth in the market will continue and used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday to introduce several new consumer-targeted products, including a gaming PC that he said is four times more powerful

LONDON — Intel Corp. has applied for planning permission to build a chip plant close to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, according to an Associated Press report, which referenced a government official as its source.

The plant is expected to cost $605 million, the report said. The report did not make

Netgear Inc. and Skype, the Web-based calling company which is a unit of eBay Inc. said on Wednesday they plan to introduce the first wireless mobile telephone for Skype.
 
The Netgear Wi-Fi phone is designed to work wherever a consumer is connected to a wireless Internet access point -- at