Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said Tuesday.

Microsoft's reluctance to make its Office suite interoperable with competing products has prompted a British government agency to complain to the European Commission, which is already investigating the company's conduct in this area.

Nigeria is offering incentives to encourage foreign direct investment in the country, especially in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Advanced Micro Devices announced a series of executive changes Monday, including the creation of a Central Engineering Organization to oversee the company's product roadmap.

Nokia is extending its mobile navigation system to the Web via its Ovi.com site, where people will be able to save map locations and routes and then synchronize them with their phones.

An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country.

While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the company's nascent rich Internet application (RIA) development product family and eventual competitor to Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, will be entirely open source, a FAQ page on Sun's site appears to contradict that.

It may not have been the greatest hack ever, but police say the malicious software sneaked onto restaurant chain Dave & Buster's corporate network was good enough to earn criminals hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Jeff Raikes, a 26-year Microsoft veteran who was previously in charge of Office, Windows Server, SQL Server and other key products as the president of the Microsoft Business Division, will succeeed Patty Stonesifer, who is stepping down after holding the CEO position for the past 10 years.

Hewlett-Packard has confirmed it is in talks to acquire IT services company Electronic Data Systems in a deal that would give it more competitive muscle against worldwide services market leader IBM.

Hewlett-Packard is close to acquiring IT services company Electronic Data Systems for around $13 billion, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal published on Monday.

Google plans to release on Monday a preview version of Friend Connect, a service designed to let Web publishers add social networking features to their sites, the company said.

Research in Motion's sleek new BlackBerry Bold 9000 will support 3G networks worldwide, as well as Wi-Fi and GPS. Will it be able to withstand a 3G iPhone challenge?

Sanjiv Ahuja left his role as CEO of Orange, the mobile phone and Internet access subsidiary of France Télécom, last year in order to seek a new challenge. With his new company Augere, he is now focused on rolling out broadband Internet access in parts of the world where penetration today is almost nonexistent -- and sees a need for desktop, not laptop, computers in developing countries.

A software glitch that crept into a massive system integration project at Japan's Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ left thousands of customers unable to withdraw money on Monday morning.

An earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter Scale knocked out mobile phone service in the western Chinese city of Chengdu, although fixed-line networks remained in service, Chinese state television reported Monday afternoon.

Database maker Vertica Systems is moving its technology to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure (EC2), hoping to score customers who want a hosted, pay-as-you-go model for data warehousing and BI (business intelligence), the company announced Monday.

The public will get its first chance Monday to test a search engine from start-up Powerset that eschews conventional keyword technology and instead is designed to understand the meaning of Web pages.

The ICT (information and communications technology) industry needs to do its part to help alleviate the current food crisis, according to the Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif.