Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and chairman of software giant Microsoft, pledged to train teachers in impoverished Bangladesh in computer skills.
 
Gates, who met Prime Minister Khaleda Zia amid tight security after a series of deadly blasts by Islamic extremists in recent months, told the agency he intended to sign an

The quasi-governmental organization that oversees the Internet has tentatively approved a ".asia" Web domain to unify the Asia-Pacific community, but the group has delayed a decision on whether to move forward with a ".xxx" zone for pornography sites.
 
At its annual meeting this past weekend in Vancouver, British Columbia, the

Both fixed and mobile WiMAX will be important to cellular operators to help them relieve congestion from their cellular data networks and to prepare for data technologies beyond 3G, a study released Tuesday by ABI Research claims.

The study noted that, a year ago, there was a lot of hype about the

LONDON — STMicroelectronics NV and Intel Corp. have collaborated to develop a NOR-flash memory subsystem for inclusion in mobile phone handsets. The two companies said they would provide hardware- and software-compatible memory products based on common specifications.
The first multi-level cell NOR products based on the common specifications are 512-Mbit devices independently

Worldwide revenues from cable modem termination system (CMTS) sales continue to grow at a healthy rate, according to Infonetics Research, increasing 15% in the third quarter of this year.

Port shipments were also up, with upstream port shipments increasing 18% and downstream ports 19%. The growth curve isn't likely to flatten out

LONDON — SanDisk Corp., a supplier of flash storage products, said Tuesday (Dec. 6) it intends to appeal an adverse ruling from U.S. International Trade Commission that certain STMicroelectronics NAND flash memory chips did not infringe three claims of its U.S. patent numbered 5,172,338.
 
SanDisk (Sunnyvale, Calif.) made the statement in

Toshiba's Digital Products Division Monday unveiled its latest Tecra mobile PCs along with a new program aimed at making it easier for customers to work with their solution providers to order the new notebooks.

The Irvine, Calif.-based division of Toshiba America Information Systems launched EasyBuy, an option to its Preferred Partner Program

Microsoft plans to create a network of 90 software development centers around the world to support programmers, it said on Tuesday. The initiative is designed partly to foster the creation of local software industries. 
 
The centers will be run in cooperation with local governments, academic institutions, industry organizations and software

Hynix Semiconductor Inc. has introduced what the company claims is the world's fastest and highest-density graphics memory, 512-megabit graphics double data rate generation four (GDDR4) DRAM.

GDDR4 DRAM is said to provide a nearly two-fold improvement in data processing speed over incumbent GDDR3. According to Hynix (Icheon, Korea) GDDR4 is ideal for

LONDON — STMicroelectronics NV and Intel Corp. have collaborated to develop a NOR-flash memory subsystem for inclusion in mobile phone handsets. The two companies said they would provide hardware- and software-compatible memory products based on common specifications.
The first multi-level cell NOR products based on the common specifications are 512-Mbit devices independently