Joris Evers

Mobile and desktop PC prices in the United States will drop this year as direct PC vendors reduce profit margins and ignite an "intense battle for market share, " according to market research firm Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group Inc.

Microsoft Corp. announced Monday that it has released the final code of Office XP, the successor to Office 2000, to manufacturing.

Taking its first significant step into the corporate PC sphere, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announced Monday that NEC Corp. will manufacture and sell computers incorporating AMD processors to corporate customers in Europe.

Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary Bibliofind.com said Monday that hackers stole the company's customer records, including credit card information, according to a report in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal published Tuesday.

L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. wants to introduce a new verb. In a few years time everybody will be "blipping," the Swedish company said Thursday.

The Dutch competition authority on Friday cleared two phone operators of suspicions of colluding during the country's auction of third-generation (3G) mobile phone licenses last July.

Italy's Tiscali SpA is having a tough time merging its operations with the local World Online NV businesses. Employees at World Online Belgium have started a protest that they are hoping will spread to other countries.

Intel Corp. combating a slowdown in chip demand, confirmed Wednesday that it would institute measures to save hundreds of millions of dollars this year.