Microsoft Corp. believes a future with more than one open document standard is preferable to a single standard, a company executive said at a panel in Boston debating the future of electronic data formats.

IBM Corp. is strengthening its existing partnerships with the two leading Linux distribution companies, Novell Inc. and Red Hat Inc. The two vendors have joined the likes of SAP AG and Cisco Systems Inc. as the top 10 partners in

Adobe Systems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.'s playbook by releasing security patches on a predictable, monthly basis starting next year.

Physicists at nearly a dozen research institutions, including New York University, have discovered evidence for very high energy gamma rays emitting from the Milky Way, marking the highest energies ever detected from the galactic equator. Their findings, published in the

PacificNet ( PACT ) says that China Mobile ( CHL ) recently deployed its subsidiary Guangzhou 3G's Color Ring Back Tone ("CRBT") value-added services for Hubei and Guangdong Provinces.

Beijing Haidian District Consumer's Association has exposed two websites, haducn.com and 010333.com, that have been found cheating consumers by selling low-priced mobile phones.

Silicon Laboratories ( SLAB ) announced that China's Amoi Mobile has adopted the Si4700 FM tuner for multiple new handset platforms.

Nortel ( NT ) has become a corporate member of the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) initiative. OLPC, a non-profit organization, was formed earlier this year by Nicholas Negroponte and other faculty members from the MIT Media Lab.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - MTV Networks has agreed to become an investor in privately held Amp'd Mobile and will provide video clips and other content for a wireless service that Amp'd plans to kick off this week, the companies said

Hot on the heels of IBM breaking the $1 billion dollar mark in quarterly revenues related to Linux, Big Blue is rewarding Red Hat and Novell by promoting them to IBM's Strategic Alliance program, IBM's highest partner level. The new

Almost six months after the Supreme Court's Grokster decision , illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music sharing is declining, according to market research firm NPD Group. The Port Washington, N.Y.-based company says that from the time of the Supreme Court decision in

Google" and "enterprise" are two words that traditionally don't go together very well. "It doesn't intuitively make sense," Google Enterprise general manager Dave Girouard told several hundred audience members today at the Interop conference here. Girouard, who is responsible for

A complex invoicing system and rapid growth led local voice over internet protocol wholesaler HiTech Telecom to change its billing system four times in 4 1/2 years...

Settlement between Marvel Entertainment, NCSoft says players of online game can, for now, still create characters resembling those in Marvel comics.

is one of the best-performing LCDs we've reviewed, although it still doesn't rival the better plasmas at this size.

Pioneer's PDP-4360HD offers improved black-level performance and excellent overall picture quality, but it costs a bit more than the competition.

ClickZ reports on findings from a Nielsen//NetRatings study that found online holiday shopping has surged again this year as expected. Week six of the 2005 holiday shopping season (December 4-10) experienced a 33 percent year-over-year gain over week six of

The National Institutes of Health is launching a comprehensive effort to accelerate our understanding of the molecular basis of cancer through the application of genome analysis technologies, especially large-scale genome sequencing. The overall effort, called The Cancer Genome Atlas, will

p2p news / p2pnet: As expected, the European Parliament has signed off on new laws making it mandatory for telecom firms to retain call and Net records for up to two years. Now, companies will be forced to store: Data

ARMONK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Building upon the company's commitment to Linux and the Open Source Community, IBM today announced Novell and Red Hat have been elevated to IBM's Strategic Alliance program -- IBM's highest tier partner status. The move will