Qualcomm announced Plaza, a platform-agnostic wireless Internet service that provides a common framework for the development and support of widgets that will enable operators to provide their end users with quick and personalized access to the mobile Internet.

Cisco and Orange Business Services have embarked on a major network upgrade project to improve and extend Orange Business Services’ international Internet Protocol virtual private network (IP VPN).

Infineon announced the availability of its new generation 3G platform family. This new platform family addresses all major 3G market segments and includes a high performance HSPA modem solution, a feature phone solution enriched with high multimedia capabilities and a cost-efficient 3G solution.

Toshiba announced two optimized packaging technologies for micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) semiconductor packages that achieve significant cost reductions.

Experts at SophosLabs inform that French authorities have arrested a total of 22 people suspected of running an international hacking gang that broke into business networks in France and overseas.

With the “Softnet PN-IO Linux” software controller from Siemens, it is possible to set up open control solutions on standard PC hardware.

NVIDIA announced NVIDIA Gelato Pro 2.2 rendering software, the company’s advanced GPU-accelerated rendering software for professionals, is available as a no-cost download. Well suited for rendering of 3D digital content and design, Gelato Pro software now replaces the basic version of Gelato software, which was previously available directly from NVIDIA.

Tata Teleservices will commercially deploy a new location-based service that is the first to use Qualcomm’s Assisted GPS (A-GPS) technology in the Indian market.

NEC announced that its WiMAX system supplied to Tatung InfoComm of Taiwan has successfully passed the acceptance test conducted by Taiwan’s Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs (IDB).

Intel and Micron introduced the industry’s first sub-40 nanometer (nm) NAND memory device, unveiling a 34nm 32 gigabit (Gb) multi-level cell chip.

SanDisk Corporation today introduced the fastest card in its Memory Stick product family: the SanDisk Extreme III Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo with read and write speeds of 30 megabytes (MB) per second.

Corsair announced that it will launch a new 4GB DOMINATOR DDR3 memory kit running at 2000MHz at CompuTex 2008, held June 3-7, 2008 in Taipei.

Microsoft announced its Innovation Process Management (IPM) initiative to help enterprises build a flexible IT platform to speed the process of innovation for competitive advantage and a higher return on investment.

Our use of PCs and other IT products has a significant impact on the climate. The impact worldwide equals that of the entire aviation sector. A more efficient use of IT products and climate friendly purchases of new equipment could reduce the climate impact by more than 80 per cent, according to a new study by TCO Development.

Samsung announced the launch of Soulb, “Sprit of Ultra” (Soul) in bar form factor. By containing all the merits of Soul DNA, Soulb outstands from all of the other bar type handsets available in market today, setting a brand new standard for bar handset category.

Google decided to expand the reach of Google Earth by bringing it to the browser.

Mozilla announced its intent to set a brand new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.

Qualcomm announced the latest addition to its line of Bluetooth solutions which delivers an enhanced user experience and significant advantages for handset manufacturers.

Verizon Business and Swisscom announced an alliance that will provide enhanced global service and support capabilities to Swiss multinational companies and companies with operations in the Swiss market.

IBM announced three IBM System x servers featuring the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor. All of the new servers provide the IT efficiency needed in a new enterprise data center, with the System x3755 delivering 15 percent better performance than its predecessor.

Qualcomm and Adobe announced the BREW Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash technology and new platform features.

Cisco announced its intent to collaborate with the city of Krakow and the Malopolska region, Poland, on a number of initiatives to strengthen the region’s economic competitiveness through the strategic adoption of information and communications technologies (ICTs).

Kaspersky Lab has published “‘Instant’ Threats” by Denis Maslennikov and Boris Yampolsky, two of the company’s virus analysts. The article analyzes the spread of malware via instant messengers.

Yahoo! today announced the filing of a lawsuit against “Yahoo! Lottery Spammers” for unlawfully sending e-mail messages to Internet users for the purpose of deceiving them into believing that they have won a lottery or prize offered by Yahoo!.

The two-day S60 Summit was opened today in Barcelona. The event highlights the largest contingent of mobile application developers in the event’s history including more than 60 exhibits featuring location, enterprise, social media and productivity solutions as well as the latest devices.