ELECTRONICS

Technology stocks rose on Wednesday, driven by gains in information technology firm EMC Corp., VMware Inc., and Apple Corp.

Research In Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry will expand its research and development capabilities by setting up a new facility in Western Europe.

US technology giant, Apple, reported a profit gain of 36 percent in consumers cash in on Macintosh computers and iPod players.

U.S. stocks took a slow upturn on Wednesday, on better-than-expected profits airplane manufacturer Boeing Co., while technology and industrial companies also raised investors optimism by releasing positive earning results. The Standard & Poor's index took a downturn at midday trading.

Microsoft Corp.'s Tellme subsidiary launched an application for the BlackBerry on Tuesday that lets people speak commands into their smart phones to search for businesses, look up movie times, check traffic and make other queries.

Sony Corp. of America said on Tuesday it will acquire Gracenote Inc. a company that provides music recognition technologies for about $260 million.

Apple Inc is expected to report a profit for its second fiscal quarter on Wednesday that will top the company's usually conservative guidance but the stock has been on a roller coaster the past two days as investors react to differing analysts' views.

Google was ranked the world's most powerful brand for the second time, after the firm dominated the online advertisement industry across the globe.

Sony BMG revealed on Tuesday that it will join Universal Music Group in a partnership that will allow users of certain mobile phones to access its entire music catalog by the end of the year.

AT&T and network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc will start selling a high-tech video conferencing system together later this year aiming at boosting their sales to multinational corporate clients.

Apple rescheduled the delivery of Mac computers to schools run by the New York City Department of Education (DOE) citing problems in the computers, intended for delivery, related to connecting to DOE...

Shares of Honeywell International Inc. jumped 5.96 percent to $60.82 on Friday's afternoon trading in the New York Mercantile Exchange as the company reported its 2008 First quarter net income c...

Dell announced plans on Thursday to expand its business in China by selling desktop and notebook computers at Suning, and doubling the number of Gome stores that carry Dell machines.Suning is China...

Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on Thursday released its first quarter results with a 25 percent increase in earnings, boosted by new demand from emerging markets, but less be...

Technology an energy companies helped push Asian markets higher on Wednesday following a good quarterly results and a bullish outlook by chip maker Intel Corp in the U.S. on Tuesday and record oil prices.

Lenovo Group, the world's fourth-largest computer maker, is planning to expand its PC market outside Asia, including the Middle East and Turkey.

Apple and Sony reached an agreement on Monday to pay about 1.3 million yen ($12,903) to settle claims that a man was burned after an Apple computer caught fire, which allegedly was caused by a faulty Sony battery.

The deal between Apple and China Mobile Communications Corp. is still hitting a dead-rock due to concerns about the iPhone's revenue sharing business model.

The rollout and licenses of China's home-grown TD-SCDMA standard could potentially be delayed until 2010, according to one industry expert.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said senior vice president and chief of technology Phil Hester is resigning today.

Dish Network Corp., the second largest U.S. satellite-television broadcaster, lost a bid for rehearing of patent win by TiVo.