Martyn Williams

Sony Corp. will begin selling its first personal computers with Blu-ray Disc drives in Japan in June, the company said. Both laptop and desktop computers will be available.

Sony Corp. plans to unveil new client software next week that will extend its LocationFree TV platform to Macintosh computers and a wider range of mobile devices.

Lexar Media Inc. filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday that seeks to bar import and sale of some Toshiba Corp. NAND flash memory chips and products containing them, it said.

Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. have reached a definitive agreement to merge, they said Sunday. The merger stands to create a networking giant with revenue of

Toshiba Corp. began selling the world's first HD-DVD player on Friday in Japan, moving the format battle between the world's largest consumer electronics makers from the floors of trade shows to retail stores.

A library near Tokyo is set to employ palm-vein biometrics as a substitute for conventional library cards, system vendor Fujitsu Ltd. announced recently.

The success of Linux and other open source projects has depended heavily on the support and investment of major IT companies, Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said.

Engineers at NTT Communications Corp. have developed a secure instant-messaging system that supports logging and archiving of messages to satisfy compliance regulations and can interact with some third-party instant messaging networks.