Microsoft may have to stop selling its ‘Office’ suite program in South Korea due to patent infringement, a Korean technology transfer company says.
Transfer company P&IB said a recent high court decision concerning language switching software will eventually force Microsoft to exclude these technologies in their Korean Office package, the Korea Times reported.
Professor Lee Keung-hae of [...]

Google on Monday introduced the first upgrade to its business software line, offering organizations a way to give individual employees or group members a personalized home page.
The new personalized home page feature for organizations functions as a central access point for Google Apps–short for applications–a set of Web-based business software aimed at small-business users, which [...]

In celebration of Geography Awareness Week, Google has released new Featured Content for Google Earth that connects users to information about the history of the world through one of the largest private map collections in the US.
Map overlays from the David Rumsey collection, which integrate historic cartographic masterpieces dating as far back as the 17th [...]

Nintendo selects Sonic to enable DVDfFunctionality in future version of Wii console
Out of all the new consoles (and a couple of the older ones), the Nintendo Wii will be the only one without DVD movie playback capability. While it’s doubtful that the omission of such a feature will deter anyone from buying the console, considering [...]

You made it! This is finally the week in which Sony and Nintendo roll out their new video-game systems. Good luck landing one if you want one. The Nintendo Wii will be in short supply but should be reasonably attainable if you’ve got an hour or two to burn camping out in front of a [...]

Intel caps off a turnaround year on Tuesday with the introduction of its first quad-core processors, beating rival Advanced Micro Devices to the punch by several months.
Originally scheduled to launch next year, the new Xeon 5300 and Core 2 Extreme QX6700 should make an immediate dent in servers and in high-end workstation/enthusiast PCs. In those [...]

Microsoft is telling people that Internet Explorer 7 is a “high priority” update, but the company is taking longer than some expected to push the new Web browser out.
The software maker said it doesn’t plan to push the browser update out alongside the security patches slated for Tuesday. Instead, the browser update is being trickled [...]

Advanced Micro Devices has pulled the plug on its Personal Internet Communicator, once envisioned as a low-cost computer for the developing world.
The PIC was introduced in 2004 as part of AMD’s 50×15 project, in which the company has pledged to help bring Internet access to half the world’s population by 2015. The device cost $185 [...]

IBM on Monday urged Sun Microsystems to participate in existing open-source Java projects at the Apache Foundation rather than start new ones.
Java creator Sun on Monday announced that it is releasing its Java desktop and mobile software under the General Public License (GPL) version 2.
The code will be implementations of standards called Java Platform Standard [...]

Sony Corp. sold 88,400 units of its PlayStation 3 game console in the first two days after the launch in Japan, leaving most stores without any stock, video game magazine publisher Enterbrain said on Monday.
Sony started selling the latest version of its blockbuster game console in Japan on Saturday, and all indications point to a [...]