Mobility

China's Lenovo Group Ltd. signed a definitive agreement on Wednesday to acquire IBM Corp.'s personal computing division. Lenovo will pay US$1.25 billion in cash for the business, which is expected to transform it into the world's number-three PC maker, the companies announced.

IBM is discussing selling the business to Lenovo Group Ltd., China's largest maker of personal computers, and at least one other potential buyer, according to the article.

The US$16 million deal would give Cisco products and technology designed to tie together various network devices and manage them as a single system.

Users who would like to see their computers work for the betterment of humanity every time they grab a coffee can put their desktop PC into number crunching node on a worldwide grid.

Company is set to unleash its much-anticipated search technology on Thursday on its MSN Web site.

A preview release of Firefox available since last month has been downloaded over 8 million times, the Mozilla Foundation said Tuesday.

Benefiting from high-profile security vulnerabilities in the Microsoft browser and recommendations by experts to switch, the Mozilla Foundation saw its market share rise.

Microsoft Corp. in South Africa will be increasing the price of its Office Suite by between 20 and 30 percent with effect Nov. 1.