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A promised upgrade to a Chinese game that lets users hunt down corrupt officials has yet to materialize, as the game remained offline for a second week.

South African computer maker Mustek Ltd. has chosen a processor from Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. to power its new education PC.

Microsoft Corp. wants to play a bigger role in China's living rooms, and the company is willing to spend millions of dollars to get there.

Dell Inc. is working on plans to sell PCs through retail stores in Asia and Australia, as part of a wider shift within the company away from using only direct sales.

Last year, BenQ Corp. had a large Computex booth inside Hall 2 of the Taipei World Trade Center. This year, the troubled electronics maker is staying away from Taiwan's largest hardware show while it moves toward spinning off its branded-products business.

The People's Liberation Army, in China, continues to build cyberwarfare units and develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems as part of its information-warfare strategy, the U.S. Department of Defense warned in a report released on Friday.

Intel Corp. will stop using lead in its upcoming microprocessors, eliminating one of the most toxic components used in semiconductors from its product line.

Dell Inc. is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. As part of the deal, Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers that are not already using Linux, the computer maker said Monday.