TAIPEI, Taiwan — A couple of underdogs in the optical disc world are hoping to steal some of the show at next week’s CeBIT by introducing the commercial versions of low priced, red-laser based discs and players capable of storing up to 40 gigabytes of data.

New Medium Enterprises and Beijing E-World

Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the world's largest network equipment maker, said on Monday it's partnering with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to create a package of communications tools geared for businesses.

Part of its efforts to diversify and expand its revenue stream, San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco is launching the "Cisco Unified Communications" system that will

DUBLIN — Speakers at the DVB World conference Thursday (March 2) found themselves explaining the surprising phenomenon of "mobile home TV," but it had nothing to do with television viewing in trailer parks.

Typical consumers, said speaker Marcus Lundqvist, director of server and network solutions at Nokia, like to watch TV on

Microsoft accused European authorities of "secret collaboration" with the company's rivals in the antitrust probe of the US software giant.
 
In a complaint filed in Brussels as a supplemental response to the EU finding that the company abused its position of market dominance, Microsoft fired back with a series of

Open source software is stable, secure, liked by users and can save the government money.
 
This is the message from the Open Source Academy (OSA), a project set up with funding from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

An OSA spokesman said: "The aim of the project is

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Search engine giant Google Inc. is switching its internal servers from microprocessors made by Intel Corp. to chips from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), according to wire reports.

The reports, which cited Morgan Stanley as its source, said that Google has more than 200,000 internal servers worldwide.

DUBLIN — The Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) group has launched a "study mission" on the next-generation terrestrial digital television standard, dubbed "DVB-T2," according to Ulrich Reimers, chair of DVB Technical Module at this week's DVB Forum.

Separately, the DVB group is also close to completing another study mission on "Satellite Services to Portable

Dassault Systemes SA, a French company that provides computer-aided design (CAD), manufacturing, engineering and product lifecycle management (PLM) software, on Thursday said it will acquire MatrixOne Inc., a product lifecycle management software provider, for approximately $408 million, in an all cash transaction for $7.25 per share.

The deal, approved by boards at

A thumbnail-sized surface mount GPS receiver was unveiled Thursday by Trimble and the firm said the tiny device would be ideal for use on Bluetooth appliances, sports gear, cameras, and computer and communications peripherals.

Called the Copernicus GPS module, the 12-channel receiver is contained in a 19mm x 19mm x 2.5mm shielded

Perhaps the biggest threat to Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and the portable music player industry is a device already nestling in a billion pockets: the mobile phone.

Sales of cellphones that can store and play back music are climbing, raising hopes among handset producers like Sony Ericsson (6758.T) (ERICb.ST) and Motorola Inc.