Intel Corp. expects to ship its first processor with four cores in early 2007, a top executive said on Friday, as the world's top chipmaker races to win back market share.

Intel also expects to sell 60 million dual-core chips this year, accounting for about a quarter of total processor sales, chief

Takafumi Horie, the flamboyant founder of Japan's Livedoor Internet firm, was indicted with three associates for alleged securities fraud to cap a spectacular fall from grace.
 
Horie, 33, who just a month ago was one of Japan's most high-profile business leaders, and his fellow former executives each risk five years

UK cable firm NTL is teaming up with BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the popular file-sharing software, to test a new service that will let users purchase movies and music video downloads.
 
The trial, which will also include technology from Cambridge, England-based CacheLogic Ltd., comes as BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen

Sony Pictures on Thursday disclosed prices for movies on its new Blu-ray DVD format, setting a target range seen as a 15-to-20 percent premium to the current DVD standard.

Blu-ray is locked in a multibillion-dollar standards war against a rival DVD format known as HD DVD. Analysts see the new pricing as

Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday cut the price of its cheapest digital music player, the iPod Shuffle, and launched a smaller-capacity version of its mid-priced iPod Nano.
 
The move by Apple, which has 70 percent of the U.S. digital music player market, is aimed at further consolidating a market that

OpenMFG LLC will launch this week a hybrid open source enterprise resource planning(ERP) suite. The developer says it has integrated credit card processing, financial reporting and integration with package delivery services.
 
OpenMFG's ERP platform is built on Linux operating system, PostgreSQL database and OpenRPT report writer. It runs on Windows,

US government agencies have staged a simulated cyber attack on the country's power grid and other critical infrastructure to test Internet security measures and emergency preparedness.
 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Friday in a statement that the exercise, dubbed "Cyber Storm," set out scenarios in which a

Flash memory card maker SanDisk Corp. on Friday said a patent infringement complaint it filed against STMicroelectronics NV is being investigated by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).

"We will uphold our claims vigorously, but can't comment an ongoing litigation," said Carol Brown, a senior spokeswoman at STMicroelectronics, a Geneva-based maker of

Cisco overhauled its security management software in an attempt to push its “self defending networks” message to enterprise data center managers.

For a couple of years, Cisco has extolled the virtues of its “self-defending networks” strategy to anyone willing to listen. Instead of deploying a plethora of different security devices like perimeter

SWsoft Inc. on Tuesday will introduce the latest version of its virtualization software, which is designed to provide a "zero downtime" platform for moving virtual servers between physical servers without end-user disruption.
 
SWsoft is releasing Virtuozzo for     Linux 3.0 and Virtuozzo for Windows 3.5.1. The "zero-downtime migration" capability is one