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Acer Inc. will develop a long-awaited Chinese-language version of the Palm OS as part of an agreement to license the handheld operating system from Palm Inc., according to Alan Kessler, general manager of Palm's platform solutions group.

A former CEO of troubled Belgian software vendor Lernout and Hauspie Speech Products Gaston Bastiaens, was arrested on Saturday in a Boston suburb on allegations of financial fraud, stock price manipulation and other charges contained in a Belgian warrant, said Timothy Bane, chief deputy at the U.S. Marshals Service in Boston.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has developed 32-bit flash memory chips that the company hopes will be used in applications where DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) has previously been found.

Excite@Home Inc. announced Monday plans to cut 380 jobs as the high-speed Internet access company looks to reduce costs.

InterTrust Technologies Corp., a Santa Clara, California-based developer of distributed digital rights management technology, Thursday announced that it has filed a patent infringement complaint against Microsoft Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

In a discovery that could further extend the life of Moore's Law by allowing more transistors to be placed on a computer chip, IBM Corp. researchers have developed a transistor technology that permits the mass production of semiconductors that are smaller and faster and require less power than chips currently made out of silicon.

Intel Corp. announced Thursday a partnership with the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing to conduct advanced software compiler research.

Intel Corp. officials turned up further pressure on rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) by demonstrating a 2GHz version of the Pentium 4 at the Intel Developer Forum which runs here this week and ends Wednesday.