QUALCOMM, Dialog Telekom and USAID opened a Last Mile Initiative (LMI) Center in Wennappuwa, a small fishing town in North Western Province, Sri Lanka.

Sharp has developed a new System LCD equipped with touch screen and scanner functions.

Panasonic introduced the newest member of its digital single-lens reflex (SLR) camera line, the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-L10, the company’s first SLR with Face Detection.

Alltel Wireless announced the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphone will now be available to customers.

SanDisk announced the uSSD 5000 solid state drive (SSD), which can be used as an economical substitute for hard disk drives in sub-$250 PCs.

Opera, the only company that puts the Web on any device, today released the new beta of Opera Mini 4, the world’s most popular mobile Web browser.

Mozilla announced today the availability of Firefox Campus Edition. The bundled version of Firefox with three popular add-ons is geared towards students and provides easy access to music, timesaving research tools and highly rated web sites.

NBC Universal has decided against renewing its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on Apple Inc’s iTunes after failing to come to an agreement on pricing, the New York Times reported in its online edition on Friday.

China’s Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an Internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported on Friday.

A group of state attorneys general said on Thursday that the consent decree that settled the landmark antitrust case against Microsoft Corp has failed to reduce the company’s monopoly, disagreeing with the assessment of U.S. antitrust officials.

Regulators said on Thursday they had proposed penalizing three wireless carriers which the government says failed to meet new stricter standards for being able to locate cellular telephone callers in an emergency.

About 146,000 people using a U.S. government jobs Web site had their personal information stolen by hackers who broke into computers at Monster Worldwide Inc, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

Imagine cramming 30,000 full-length movies into a gadget the size of an iPod.

Panasonic expects demand for large plasma televisions to slide in the next two years but to hold steady after that at about 30 percent of the total market for large, flat-screen TVs, an executive said on Thursday.

Redline Communications and Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices will conduct private testing to verify interoperability between Redline and Siemens WiMAX Forum Certified products.

According to new research by Gartner, mobile phone production in India is expected to grow from 31 million units in 2006 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.3 percent to reach 107 million units in 2011.

Video-sharing Web site YouTube said on Wednesday that it has reached a deal with British licensing organizations that collect royalties on behalf of 50,000 composers, songwriters and publishers.

Consumer electronics maker Sony on Thursday said it introduced a new U.S. version of its Sony Walkman that includes the ability to play digital video, the latest potential rival to Apple’s dominant iPod media player.

LG Electronics announced its first premium camera mobile phone on Thursday and an executive told Reuters the company aimed for 10-15 percent of this market segment within about a year.

20th Century Fox has struck a deal with Microsoft to make the first two seasons of the animated series “Family Guy” available for downloads on the Xbox Live service beginning Monday.

The theft of contact information for job seekers in the database of Monster Worldwide Inc was greater than the 1.3 million individuals the company reported last week, Chief Executive Sal Iannuzzi said on Wednesday.

Microsoft agreed to acquire Parlano, which provides technology to allow companies to create group chat sessions for employees, and add the application to its portfolio of communication offerings.

Microsoft said on Tuesday it plans to release the first major update to its Windows Vista operating system early next year.

How do you know if you’re getting a good deal on a hotel room? Well, a new Web service plans to tell you.

News Corp. and NBC Universal said on Wednesday they have named their new online video joint venture Hulu, taking a page from the Internet company tradition of creating meaningless corporate monikers.