Dan Nystedt

Microsoft Corp. on Monday filed an appeal to the Seoul High Court in South Korea seeking to reverse a decision by the country's antitrust regulators that included an order to offer versions of its popular Windows operating system without its Media Player and Instant Messenger software.n

Users may soon see flash-based disks in laptops and other mobile computers after Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced that it's already offering a 32G-byte drive to customers, the beginning of an industry change that could have sweeping consequences in the technology industry.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to launch its first desktop and laptop processors by the middle of the year that support DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory chips, AMD executives said on the sidelines of a news conference at the Cebit IT show in Hanover, Germany.

Asustek Computer Inc. will have a notebook PC developed in conjunction with sports-car maker Automobili Lamborghini on world markets by April, just ahead of the start of the San Marino Grand Prix, which is held at a race track named after the founder of one of Lamborghini's most potent rivals, Enzo Ferrari.

A growing dispute between Taiwan and China won't likely abate soon, but it also won't hurt global technology supplies, experts said.

A growing dispute between Taiwan and China won't likely abate soon, but it also won't hurt global technology supplies, experts said Wednesday.n

Google Inc. plans to launch a search service aimed at Chinese users this week that will block results deemed sensitive to Beijing, a decision the company struggled with before deciding it's better to provide some service rather than none at all.n

Japan plans to impose countervailing duties on DRAM (dynamic RAM) computer chips made by Hynix Semiconductor Inc., alleging that low-cost loans from state-controlled banks a few years ago amounted to unfair subsidies for the chip maker, a move similar to duties announced years ago by the U.S. and European Union (EU).