China Mobile Pakistan Limited (CMPak Ltd) has selected Alcatel-Lucent to enhance and expand. its GSM network in northern Pakistan. Ericsson has been selected for the expansion of the network throughout the south of the country.

Dell, Intel and Microsoft formed the Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI) Working Group.

The summer video game doldrums are almost here, but a small flurry of new titles over the next couple of weeks may help tide gamers over until the fall bounty.

Warner Music, the world’s fourth largest music group, is putting its archive of music video online and making it available for free to fans.

Google said on Wednesday it was building Web software that runs online and off to let users work remotely on planes, trains, slow dial-up connections or even the most remote locations in the world.

Apple said on Wednesday that Google YouTube Internet video site will soon be available on its Apple TV set-top box.

Apple said on Wednesday it launched iTunes Plus, a new copy protection-free music download service featuring artists with EMI Group including Coldplay, The Rolling Stones and Joss Stone.

News Corp. and NBC Universal said on Wednesday they signed five more content deals for their new online video venture including ones with the Sundance Channel and TV Guide.

Palm Inc. on Wednesday introduced a compact portable computer to accompany its Treo smartphone, seeking to regain its competitive edge in the crowded high-end handheld device market.

European Union states have started sharing monitoring of militant Web sites, including sites linked to al-Qaeda, a draft statement agreed by the bloc’s ambassadors on Wednesday shows.

Sweden became the first country on Wednesday to open an embassy in the virtual world Second Life.

Cigna Corp. said on Wednesday it will offer HopeLab’s “Re-Mission” video game, which lets teens and young adults blast cancer while learning how to improve the odds of beating the disease, free of charge on its Web site.

Scientists at Xerox have developed a new technology that makes it easier to secure any document from a personal check to a birth certificate using the printers found in most print shops.

The GSM Association will collaborate with Microsoft and 13 mobile on a global research programme to determine consumer user trends and the mass market potential of notebook PCs with embedded mobile broadband.

Samsung has developed a 4GB MCP (multi-chip package) for mobile phones that forgoes the need for an external memory card slot and eliminates having to develop interface software for all types of NAND memory.

Adobe announced the public beta of Adobe ColdFusion 8 software, code-named “Scorpio.”

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CBS Corp said on Wednesday it had paid $280 million in cash for the popular music social network service Last.fm.

China is so worried that its iconic Great Wall will not be named one of the “new” seven wonders of the world, it has launched a campaign to get Chinese people to vote for it, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.

PQI sets new standards with new high speed and large capacity industrial CF and SSD

An American Web site offering G-string underwear and T-shirts for dogs emblazoned with picture of Buddha dropped them from its sales list on Wednesday after protests by predominantly Buddhist Thailand.

Microsoft will unveil a coffee-table-shaped “surface computer” on Wednesday in a major step towards co-founder Bill Gates’s view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction using voice, pen and touch.

Google said on Tuesday it was introducing street-level map views of various U.S. cities, giving Web users a panoramic, 360-degree images as well as the overhead views Google Maps has offered.

Global positioning systems (GPS), digital photography and computer databases are joining the humble paint can as U.S. cities battle to obliterate graffiti and catch its shadowy perpetrators.

Nokia Siemens Networks signed a new contract with Heilongjiang Mobile Communications Company (Heilongjiang MCC) for its 10th GSM network expansion and professional services.