Reuters - Major-power foreign ministers on Thursday tried to break an impasse in the U.N. Security Council on Iran's nuclear ambitions with a round of telephone calls seeking to produce a unified message, diplomats said.

Reuters - Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday firmly rejected a draft U.N. Security Council statement aimed at pressuring Iran to stop enriching uranium, despite a new offer of amendments by Western powers.

Reuters - Computer graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy Finnish graphics software company Hybrid Graphics Ltd. for an undisclosed amount.

Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she was confident an international agreement would be reached on way to pressure Iran to stop enriching uranium.

Reuters - The United States still believes the U.N. Security Council can reach agreement in coming days on a statement calling on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment activities, a senior envoy said on Wednesday.

Reuters - Violence is surging in Sudan's south as well as its western Darfur region, fueled by government inaction even after years of global attention, U.N. envoy Jan Pronk told the Security Council on Tuesday.

Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.KS) expects flash memory chip prices to stabilize at the end of the second quarter, a top executive said on Tuesday, as demand for the chips used in MP3 music players and digital cameras recovers.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - Hynix Semiconductor Inc. is warning chip companies that the price of Nand flash memory chips will fall 25 percent this quarter. The South Korean firm says the market is over-supplied and that sales of memory chips will drop to half for the whole of...

PC World - Chip maker Transmeta reveals that it is helping the software giant build...something.

Reuters - White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley expressed skepticism on Friday about Iran's offer to talk to the United States about Iraq, saying it may be an attempt to divert pressure over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Reuters - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, on Wednesday compared the threat from Iran's nuclear programs to the September 11 terror attacks on the United States.

Reuters - The U.S. military has launched a criminal investigation into possible wrongdoing by Marines in the deaths of 15 Iraqi civilians in an incident in November in the town of Haditha, defense officials said on Thursday.

Reuters - Iran on Thursday offered more access to U.N. inspectors if their watchdog agency, not the U.N. Security Council, dealt with its nuclear dispute with the West.

AP - A former mechanic convicted of raping and murdering 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, whose abduction was caught on a car wash security camera, was sentenced to death Wednesday for her murder.

AP - A woman asked President Bush if he thought humans should be implanted with a computer chip containing their medical records — just like her dog. Bush got a laugh when he naively suggested car buyers know from the outset what they will pay. One man gave Bush unsolicited advice about greenhouse gases and another held his feet to the fire on nuclear proliferation.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - Intel launched Xeon LV on Tuesday, its first low-power, dual-core server processor. The 31 watts, energy-efficient chip will appear in servers, storage devices and telecom equipment. IBM intends to put Xeon LV in its blade servers and Supermicro will...

Reuters - Iran came under new pressure to halt its suspected nuclear weapons programs on Tuesday when the United States and its allies took the issue to the full U.N. Security Council and Russia pursued its own initiative in talks in Moscow.

AP - South Korea said Tuesday it had sought consultations with Japan over a dispute about computer chip tariffs, the first step in possibly bringing the case to the World Trade Organization for settlement.

AP - Luke Donald won his first PGA Tour event while sitting in a locker room, after that week's final round was canceled by two days of rain.

AFP - A powerful House of Representatives committee has voted overwhelmingly to block Dubai Ports World from managing six US ports, moving closer to a showdown with the White House over the deal.