China Mobile's holy grail of handsets is slated for sale next month, a phone that uses both the carrier's own mobile operating system and China's next-generation cellular standard.

A Chinese company that offers a rival suite to Microsoft Office is following industry trends by turning its software into a Web-based service.

Microsoft is trying to improve the visuals in Windows 7 by working with hardware makers on a software interface that maximizes the use of graphics cards.

While the Mac-using world awaits the fall arrival of Snow Leopard, Apple is doing some cleanup work on the current version of its Macintosh operating system. On Wednesday, Apple patched 18 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X.

The PCMag.com reader consensus is that free products rule, while for-pay security software stinks. But how can good software be developed for free? The developer of the free A/V program Avast explains.

Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. said Thursday its second-quarter profit fell 31 percent amid losses tied to foreign currency translation and a charge from selling its stake in Orc Software.

Microsoft's newest operating system for PCs will launch in late October, but it won't boost PC sales enough to help the global DRAM memory chip market until the second quarter of next year, executives in Taiwan said Thursday.

In the wake of making Windows 7 official with the release to manufacturing (RTM) version last week, Microsoft announced the RC (release candidate) version of Windows XP Mode for Windows 7. The virtualized edition of Windows XP SP3 removes a major hurdle facing enterprises that rely on legacy applications built to run on Windows XP.

Wisconsin researchers have released a free software tool that could help Web surfers susceptible to certain seizures.

Google Inc said it would acquire video compression software maker On2 Technologies Inc for $106.5 million, stepping up efforts to foster the spread of Internet video.

To many, free open source software and Microsoft Windows seem to be mutually exclusive.

Media software company DivX Inc said on Tuesday it signed deals to digitally distribute films for Lions Gate Entertainment Corp and Paramount Pictures, bringing the total number of Hollywood studios to embrace its technology to four.

Microsoft on Tuesday released software that allows Windows 7 users to run applications in XP mode. Windows XP Mode Release Candidate (RC) is now available for download.

DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp said on Tuesday they were pleased the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued an initial office action rejecting TiVo Inc's software claims as invalid.

Sparked by the jaw-dropping success of Apple's iTunes store, an array of enterprise software vendors are getting into the "app store" act.

Announced today on the official Windows 7 Team Blog, Microsoft has just made available the release candidate for Windows XP Mode. You can grab it here.

Microsoft Tuesday released software that uses virtualization to allow people to run applications in Windows 7 as if they are running in XP, making it easier for applications written for older versions of the OS to run on Windows 7.

Google's Android operating system is getting ready for business, according to Vice President Andy Rubin.

Google has announced their intention to make future versions of their Android mobile operating system more enterprise-friendly and fight harder to gain market share from competitors like the RIM (Research in Motion) Blackberry. Android has a long way to go to be an enterprise-class mobile platform, and Google isn't even heading in the right direction.