Microsoft is not only a software developer, but also a hardware producer. Third parties who are interested in licensing Microsoft`s hardware technologies are now able to do so; as Microsoft opens licensing on three different technologies.

U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab will meet with her counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday, where she is expected to conclude an agreement.

Representative Spencer Bachus, Republican of Alabama, met with Aruban officials last Friday regarding Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who disappeared in Aruba during a class trip this summer. Bachus, who district includes Mountain Brook, the town Holloway is from, said little about the meeting, only commenting that it was a "frank and open discussion".

Werd Interactive, Mobile games specialist, is giving the mobile games industry a huge jolt with the premier of its first Neo Retro titles, its new, entry level casual games brand. Neo Retro games are being sold online directly to players at the Werd`s website.

Relief pitcher Keith Foulke, 34, announced on Friday that he has decided to retire from baseball and will not appear in Cleveland Indians uniform this year, opting out of the one year, five million dollar contract he had signed with the club in January

RMS Communications is a company that collects used cell phones, recycles them, and re-markets them throughout the entire world. It also provides these phones to law enforcement officials free of charge, shelters and other organizations of 911 phone services.

Saudi Arabia, the top global oil exporter, won the go-ahead from major trading nations on Friday to join the World Trade Organization, probably by mid-December, after 12 years of tough on-off negotiations.

Japan`s space agency on Monday completed the first successful test of a prototype jet that can fly at twice the speed of sound. A breakthrough in supersonic flight could help Japan leap ahead in the aerospace field.

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, but more accurately since the mid-1990s, Russia has been battling with Chechen separatists and counted few true victories to its credit ? even though, autonomously, Muslim Chechnya remains part of the Russian Federation. Russia?s Chechen ?public enemy number one? is no longer a threat,

FC Barcelona`s Ronaldinho is thinking about one thing only and that the thing is brining his team past AC Milan at the upcoming UEFA Champions League semi-final math and write a new chapter in the club`s history.

The Casbah Coffee Club, a Liverpool basement where the legendary Beatles played some of their earliest shows, has gained a heritage status, Grade 2, by the British Government.

The company that brought all of us free and accessible PC-to-PC phone calls, Skype, is about to launch an all-year-round deal for both wireless and landline phone calls

neaclear congratulats the Chicago City Council for passing an ordinance to ban smoking in public places. This is a goal we have all been working towards for more than ten years.

With burgeoning real estate values in the Boston metro area, many seniors are finding themselves house rich but cash poor. Having tapped out their liquid assets, what are their options?

Book Grapevine, the site that connects readers with authors, has announced a whole host of free upcoming teleseminars by experts who wrote "the book".