Sun introduced the Sun Streaming System, its massively scalable and cost-effective video delivery platform for cable and telecommunications operators.

Adobe plans to release source code for Adobe Flex as open source.

Alcatel-Lucent and NEC will deploy the Asia America Gateway (AAG), the first direct Terabit submarine cable network between Southeast Asia and the United States.

SanDisk and Qimonda will jointly develop and manufacture multichips (MCPs) for the mobile market utilizing SanDisk’s NAND flash and controllers and Qimonda’s low power mobile DRAM.

Britain’s slave trading past gets a human face on Friday as an ancestry-tracing Web site starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time.

A project that aims to deliver low-priced laptops with string pulleys to the world’s poorest children may have a new market: U.S. schools.

Mattel is using technology to come up with a new twist on a toy launched in 1959 to appeal to today’s Web-savvy, multimedia girl shoppers.

Republican Sen. John McCain is finding out what a difference seven years makes in his new race for the presidency.

The inventor of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation video game consoles, Ken Kutaragi, will retire as chief executive of the Japanese company’s game division on June 19, Sony said on Thursday.

News Corp.’s MySpace launched a test in China this week, extending the popular social network into the one of the fastest-growing regions of the globe, the companies involved said on Thursday.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs indicated on Wednesday he is unlikely to give in to calls from the music industry to add a subscription-based model to Apple’s wildly popular iTunes online music store.

The company, aiming to become a new kind of global cable TV network on the Web, was started last year by Niklas Zennstrom and partner Janus Friis, founders of Web phone company Skype, now owned by eBay Inc., and music-sharing site KaZaA.
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Sony said on Thursday it will launch a video-sharing site in Japan on Friday, marking the electronics and entertainment firm’s first step towards challenging Google’s YouTube service.

Central European nations have closed in fastest amongst emerging economies on the digital elites in North America and western Europe, a ranking of Web-savvy nations showed on Thursday.

LG Electronics said on Thursday its recently launched Shine handset model had just reached its million-unit sales mark, and added it may launch another groundbreaking model later this year.

Chinese counterfeiters, determined to cash in on the hype of “Spider-Man 3,” have taken piracy one step further, releasing faked copies of different movies in Spider-Man sleeves.

Alcatel-Lucent has completed for Maroc Telecom the manufacturing and installation of the Atlas Offshore submarine cable network, linking the cities of Asilah in Morocco, to Marseille in France.

Time Warner Inc.’s AOL Internet unit will launch a version of its portal in India on Thursday, including sections devoted to Bollywood, Cricket and international music.

British billionaire Richard Branson promised a music festival prize on Wednesday to the Canadian community that does the most to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in an environmental challenge called Flick Off.

Microsoft released its next-generation Windows Server “Longhorn” software for public testing on Wednesday and said the product is on track for a debut in the second half of 2007.

British rocker Pete Townshend on Wednesday unveiled an Internet-based software program that will help music fans compose personalized tracks at the click of a button.

A large English cheddar cheese has become a star of the Internet, attracting more than 1 million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.

Canada will ban the sale of inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2012 as part of a plan to cut down on emissions of greenhouse gases, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said on Wednesday.

Nokia, the world’s biggest handset maker, and mobile telecoms carriers have agreed on a global initiative to turn cell phones into wallets, a wireless telecoms interest group said on Wednesday.

A international team led by the University of Tokyo has set two consecutive new Internet2 Land Speed Records (I2-LSR) in the IPv6 single and multi-stream categories.