LONDON — Viciciv Technologies Inc. is a startup company that appears to be preparing to enter the FPGA or programmable ASIC market, using patented stacked SRAM cell technology.

The company has been assigned a patent that appears to cover the construction of an SRAM inverter pair stacked vertically or with the SRAM

NEW YORK - Driven largely by the popularity of the iTunes music service and software, Apple Computer Inc.'s Web site was the fastest growing last month among the major brands, according to a study by Nielsen/NetRatings.
 
The site drew 30.8 million unique visitors in November, a 57 percent jump from

Some Wall Street analysts are glum about 2006 for the U.S. economy because of fears of rising energy costs and bursting housing bubbles. But semiconductors may be a bright spot, said David Creamer, managing director at technology investment banking firm Jefferies Broadview.
 
There are expectations 2006 will be a good year

DALLAS - Online shopping is booming and many marketers are targeting teens, a combination of trends that raises troubling issues for young shoppers during this holiday season.
 
Teens often overlook extra charges, such as shipping, that add to the cost of products, and might not detect offers that look too

You've got the whole TV world in your hand - if that's where you want it.
 
By now, you probably know that those industrious iPodders at Apple have added TV to their music box, streaming Apple Store-supplied video onto a screen that's roughly the size of a small Post-it Note. And

Red Hat gave investors an early present Wednesday, handily topping last quarter's earnings views on torrid sales of its Linux software.
 
For the quarter ended Nov. 30, the Linux seller earned 12 cents a share, 33% over analysts' views and double the year-ago figure. Sales grew 44% to $73.1 million,

NBC Universal said on Friday it bought control of cable channel MSNBC, unraveling a joint venture with Microsoft Corp. as the software giant continues to shift from content production.
 
Under the agreement, NBC Universal has increased its stake in the cable channel to 82 percent with an option to buy

Indian software major Wipro has announced it has bought US-based information technology firm mPower for 28 million dollars cash, its second foreign acquisition this week.
 
The deal comes on the heels of its purchase Monday of an Austria-based semiconductor design services firm for 56 million dollars and is part of

Microsoft may be cooking up a major Internet partnership to rival Google's newly bolstered relationship with American Online, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft manager.

Blogging for Business
 
Ian McAllister, a program manager for Microsoft's MSN division, said in a posting Wednesday that he had a

Music In Your Own Words (Miyow) Pty Ltd. is planning to develop a cellular phone application where consumers can purchase personalized tunes and send them as e-carol audio files to friends, the company said Thursday.

Requests from executives at the company's distributors, such as Arena Mobile in the U.K. and Mobile Media