To strengthen HP’s ability to serve the fast-growing Chinese market and accelerate economic development in West China, HP and China’s Chongqing Municipality announced plans for an advanced manufacturing complex.

Sun announced the launch of Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 2.0, its end-to-end solution that helps organizations to easily and efficiently establish and manage virtual desktop sessions on any operating system, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris OS and even Windows Mobile.

AOL today announced the release of Xdrive Desktop Lite, an all-new version of the Xdrive software on Adobe AIR, which was also launched today.

The company today announced that it will close its 140 kiosks in the United States.

IBM will offer an integrated Open Collaboration Client Solution with support for Ubuntu, a the Linux-based operating system from Canonical. The company also announced a new agreement working with Red Hat targeting small and medium-sized enterprises, and momentum in the Open Collaboration Client Solution powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell that was announced in August 2007. The announcements were made at the opening of Lotusphere in Orlando.

Carrefour Group will become the first mass merchandiser in Europe to sell Dell notebook and desktop computers.

Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a line of desktop printers and low cost replacement inks on Tuesday, as the photography company takes on a market dominated by Hewlett-Packard.

NEC Corp. said on Monday there had been two cases of power units inside its Japanese desktop computers catching fire, but no one was injured.

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.5, a maintenance release for the latest generation of one of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes.

Yahoo has announced that it stared a partnership with HP which is meant to increase its search market share.

The latest version of GNOME Desktop, the popular desktop environment for Linux, Unix and other platforms, has been released and comes with some new features.

The announcement made in May that Dell will use Opteron CPUs into their servers ended a period of exclusive collaboration with Intel and marked a new era for Dell.

Panda Software is launching Panda DesktopSecure for Linux, a complete security suite for protecting Linux workstations.

After we presented you yesterday the Boot Camp for Mac, we give you today the Paralells Desktops.

According to Citigroup and Reuters, Dell is likely to start selling AMD desktops in the near future.

Microsoft today announced the availability of the Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac, its first Mac-specific desktop complete with a stylish wireless Comfort Curve Keyboard and a wireless High Definition laser mouse.

Apple has released the third version of the Remote Desktop software.

Who remembers what impact had the Apple desktop launched somewhere back in 1984? Even if it was some time ago, the desktop has basically the same features as it used to have.

Microsoft announced today at the IT Forum in Barcelona a business version of Windows Desktop Search.

Google Desktop is now at the version 2.0 and is full of new features. The application evolved into a full desktop software with plug-ins.

Dell keeps its promise to make technology simple to use at home and brought on the ramp yesterday 2 new PC both backed by Dell DataSafe - A Safety Net for Personal Data and Multimedia.

Developed under the code-name Paxville, the Xeon processor will be used both by Dell and IBM on their systems.

Stardock has released the first BETA of WindowBlinds 5. With it users can get glass effects in Windows XP as Vista will have.

Ubuntu 5.10 codenamed “Breezy Badger” was announced by The Ubuntu Team and is available on install CDs and bootable Live CDs supporting three architectures.

Yahoo released its Desktop Search software, a project started this year in January. The application puts Yahoo’s search power on your desktop.