ELECTRONICS

Credit Suisse analyst William Shope wrote Thursday in a note to clients that demand for Apple Inc products – such as Mac and iPhone - was higher than expected and raised his price target for the stock.

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc said on Thursday that it planned to buy privately held Tidal Software Inc for about $105 million in cash and incentives, to bolster its range of products and services for corporate data centers.

Japan's Sharp Corp and Pioneer Corp said they would set up a joint venture to merge their optical disc businesses, aiming to beef up one of their focus operations and take a leading position in the growing Blu-ray disc market.

Shareholders and former creditors of Hynix Semiconductor have agreed to let the world's No.2 memory chip maker raise up to $519 million in a rights offer, knocking its shares down 8 percent before a late rally.

Consumers are struggling to find an easy way to get files like photographs out of their phones to share with friends and family.

Consumers are struggling to find an easy way to get files like photographs out of their phones to share with friends and family.

Nokia Siemens Networks' key attraction to Nortel Networks Corp is its quarter share of the North American telecom gear market, analysts said on Wednesday.

Nokia Siemens Networks' key attraction to Nortel Networks Corp is its quarter share of the North American telecom gear market, analysts said on Wednesday.

Intel Corp, the world's largest chip maker, is uncertain when demand for semiconductors will revive, Chairman Craig Barrett said on Wednesday.

The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the past six months to repair damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems, military leaders said Tuesday.

Microsoft has allowed HP an extension to its existing rights to continue selling the aging Windows XP OS on the company's business desktops, workstations, and notebooks in place of Windows 7.

Its official: the tech sector is not immune to the current economic crisis.

Investors seem to be getting comfortable with Apple Inc's stable of executives amid uncertainty about Steve Jobs' return to the helm of the consumer electronics titan he founded.

T-Mobile is set to roll out two new devices that will run on the Google Android platform early next year.

Eighty-seven percent of home buyers used the Internet to search for homes, up from 71 percent five years ago. Not only has the trend in overall usage risen, but the percent of buyers who reported using the Internet frequently increased from 42 percent in 2003 to 69 percent in 2008.

For chronic Facebook addicts, help is at hand. INQ Mobile, the handset arm of Hutchison Whampoa, promises to deliver status update messages from the popular social network site right to its phones' home screens.

If a deep global recession has eroded consumer confidence, you wouldn't know it by looking at the millions of people who are snapping up flashy BlackBerry smartphones made by Research In Motion.

Research In Motion posted surprisingly strong quarterly earnings on Thursday and offered a rosy outlook that signaled further growth despite the global economic slowdown as consumers embrace its newest BlackBerry smartphones.

The struggling U.S. economy probably continued to bleed jobs at a rapid rate in March, continuing to drive up the jobless rate at a startling pace.

The struggling U.S. economy probably continued to bleed jobs at a rapid rate in March, continuing to drive up the jobless rate at a startling pace.

Research In Motion posted surprisingly strong quarterly earnings on Thursday and offered a rosy outlook that signaled further growth despite the global economic slowdown as consumers embrace its newest BlackBerry smartphones.