The latest Networked Readiness Index from the World Economic Forum moved the U.S. from the number five to number one country in information and communications technology.
According to IDC, the delay of Windows Vista will only have a slight impact on PC sales, which it still expects to grow by just over 10 percent a year through 2008.
New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer has sued Gratis Internet for selling confidential information obtained via offers for free CDs, DVDs, iPods, and games.
Microsoft says it's on track to finish up the next version of Microsoft Office in October, but is going to hold it back from consumers until Windows Vista is released in January.
A study from the Pew Internet & American Life project finds that home users with broadband connections are more likely than dial-up users to go online for news.
WowWee Robotics plans to integrate two technologies from Evolution Robotics, giving its consumer robots visual recognition and positional awareness capabilities.
Yahoo's launching its VOIP "Phone Out" service in the U.S., enabling Yahoo Instant Messaging users to place calls from their computers to mobile phone and landlines.
A new survey from Lyris finds that over half U.S. Internet users make purchases from opt-in commercial email messages, and 44 percent purchase via online ads. You believe that?
In an interview with the Financial Times, a Nokia executive predicts mobile phones will kill markets for portable music players and portable video cameras.
The world's leading PC maker says it plans to double its workforce in India over the next three years, although it announced no plans to manufacture systems in India.
A survey from Lexicon Branding finds consumers don't make much of a distinction between long-sought ".com" domains and domains ending in ".net" or ".biz."
In court, the Department of Justice scaled back its data demands from Google, and the judge said he's inclined to make Google hand over some search records.
Delays finalizing copy-protection technology for the PS3's Blu-Ray disk drive push the release of Sony's next-generation gaming platform to the end of 2006.
TiVo's new KidZone feature provides a restricted area where parents can control programming available to their kids, but TiVos will soon seek out and record tagged children's shows.
Wireless operators Cingular and T-Mobile have temporarily halted sales of Motorola's popular RAZR phone due to a glitch which causes shutdowns and dropped calls.
Although the problem's been fixed, last week a McAfee virus definition update caused the antivirus product to quarantine or delete Windows applications and other important files.