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(News) A vice president at Fry's Electronics Inc. is facing the inside of two different courtrooms for allegedly running a kickback...
(News) Ready for 2009? At this time last year, we were wondering how far down the economy would go . Now we know: way, waaaaay down...
(News) The number of IT professionals expecting to see budget and head-count cuts grew significantly between October and December...
(News) It's that time of year again, when magazines and bloggers compose top 10 lists for just about everything. Here are my favorites.
(News) Online job listings for technology workers are down sharply, but there are still plenty of openings for people with the right...
(News) Adobe Systems expanded its partnership with SAP this week, part of an effort to push Flex and Flash for corporate application...
(News) Several groups call for a national broadband policy in the U.S.
(News) A federal judge Tuesday dismissed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple , shutting the door on Psystar Corp.'s attempt to force...
(News) Robots may look cool, but if badly programmed, they can be insolent during social interaction with humans, a researcher said...
(News) Microsoft said Wednesday that a major upgrade to its NAV ERP product will be available Dec. 1.
(News) The ISO has published the specifications for a Microsoft-created file format that caused bitter debate during its path to...
(News) The potential market for consumer and industrial goods that could connect to 3G mobile networks is huge.
(News) SAP has cut the cost of its NetWeaver subscriptions for developers by about 50 percent, citing the weak economy.
(News) Germany, Sweden and the U.S. are expected to be the biggest broadband penetration gainers in the next five years.
(News) Nvidia says its GPUs will be general processing devices, targeted also at commercial, mobile, and scientific applications.
(News) Sun has added a new query analysis tool to its MySQL Enterprise service.
(News) Robots are making their presence felt in the social world.
(News) Google's Eric Schmidt calls for new government spending to improve broadband and encourage alternative energies.
(News) CA is launching a product and services push dubbed Mainframe 2.0 this week.
(News) Amazon has released its latest cloud service, a hosted content delivery network called CloudFront.
(News) Facebook has launched a program to review applications and grant a seal of approval to those that meet its criteria.
(News) Ingres has shipped a big update for its open-source database.
(News) Phone manufacturers should accelerate the adoption of mobile payments, according to industry organization GSM Association.
(News) Tata is expanding in China even as Indian outsourcers are seeing slower revenue growth because of the economic crisis.
(News) China Mobile plans to roll out its 3G network in another 28 cities and has already ordered equipment for the expansion.
(News) Nine of 17 TV makers surveyed on their recycling programs in the U.S. scored an F grade in a survey by pressure group the...
(News) Consultant Capgemini and Amazon.com will offer application development and hosting services using Amazon.com's infrastructure...
(News) China Mobile is looking for deals among emerging market mobile telecom operators amid the global financial crisis.
(News) India's mobile phone demand to continue growing despite economic slowdown, according to iSuppli.
(News) NTT DoCoMo plans to launch LTE mobile broadband in 2010, becoming one of the first companies to do so.
(News) EMC is updating several pieces of its storage management software portfolio.
(News) Adobe released a public beta of its CoCoMo hosted service for developers on Monday.
(News) Symantec CEO John Thompson will retire on April 4, 2009. He will be replaced by COO Enrique Salem.
(News) The new USB 3.0 specifications, released Monday, will provide faster pipes for PCs and storage devices to communicate.
(News) Microsoft's Exchange Online and SharePoint Online hosted applications are now generally available.
(News) PC makers launched new desktops that incorporate the latest technologies to work alongside Intel's new Core i7 chips.
(News) The U.S. SEC files insider trading charges against Mark Cuban.
(News) Support for Mac OS X and improved document format support are some of the improvements Sun is touting in StarOffice 9, which...
(News) Ribbit's Web telephony development platform is out of beta and available to all, the company said Monday.
(News) Management is the technology that will allow virtualization to achieve its full potential, said CA CEO John Swainson.
(News) India will build a portal to publish data collected by its satellites.
(News) Fujitsu plans to launch two series of 2.5-inch enterprise hard-disk drives based on the faster 6G bps version of the SAS...
(News) A preview version of the next major release of the customizable Sleipnir browser has been released with new European language...
(News) Three civil liberties groups file a petition seeking the reversal of a judge's order for the forfeiture of gambling domain...
(News) Nokia warned that fewer mobile phones will sell this year than expected, but said it is confident that demand for smartphones...
(News) Sun is laying off 15 percent to 18 percent of its employees as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saving $700 million to...
(News) Sun announced Friday that it will cut up to 18 percent of its worldwide workforce to cut costs in the face of tough economic...
(News) Backers of OpenSocial marked the first birthday of the application development platform for social networking apps.
(News) Microsoft has tapped a former Motorola executive to head its operations in China.
(News) Microsoft launched a new online store in the U.S. where people can buy many of the company's hardware and software products.
(News) The video game market in the U.S. saw a healthy 18 percent expansion in October and remains on track for a record year.
(News) Seattle's Front Seat has launched a Web site where anyone can suggest and vote on ideas for Obama's future CTO.
(News) Despite a market rally Thursday, the financial news for IT just keeps getting worse.
(News) CTIA drops a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for open access conditions on part of the 700MHz block...
(News) AMD announced that it was developing processors for netbooks, aiming to supplant Intel's dominance in the space.
(News) Congress will push for net neutrality legislation next year, one insider predicts.
(News) Microsoft is offering three-year, zero-percent financing on its ERP and CRM software.
(News) Microsoft Thursday unveiled a revamped Live Search API that developers can use to embed Microsoft's search on Web sites.
(News) ERP vendor Epicor has cut an unspecified number of jobs as part of a cost-saving plan, the company said Thursday.
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(News) General Motors is looking for tens of billions of bailout dollars from the Feds to stave off bankruptcy. Here's a simpler solution: Get Steve Jobs to take over the top slot at GM.
(News) Novell will release by December the architecture document for FOSSA, hoping to attract open source developers to focus on...
(News) The INQ1 comes with built-in support for Facebook, Skype, Last.fm and Windows Live Messenger as well as a low price tag.
(News) The future of space exploration will depend on humans and robots working hand-in-hand as manned and unmanned missions head...
(News) BT Group will layoff 10,000 workers as it seeks to cuts cost and improve profitability of its services branch, the company...
(News) Some 2G mobile licenses in India are under scrutiny after Telenor and Etisalat announced plans to invest in mobile services...
(News) LCD makers expressed regret over their part in a price-fixing scheme.
(News) What a difference a year makes. This time last year few people were thinking about buying a Blu-ray Disc player because the...
(News) Google shares fell below $300 for the first time in over three years on Wednesday.
(News) AMD hopes to move beyond past chip blunders with the Thursday launch of its latest quad-core Opteron processor, code-named...
(News) Sharp, LG Display and Chunghwa agreed to pay a total of $585 in fines to end a U.S. price-fixing probe.
(News) Applied Materials said it would lay off 1,800 employees as it reported a drop in revenue and wider losses.
(News) Dell said on Wednesday that its chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler, plans to leave the company.
(News) Three LCD makers agree to plead guilty to price-fixing charges and pay $585 million in fines.
(News) SAP announced Wednesday that the fourth enhancement pack for ERP 6.0 is available.
(News) Japan's NTT DoCoMo has decided to form a capital alliance with Indian telecommunications company Tata Teleservices, it said...
(News) Computer graphics card maker Leadtek will put on sale next week its first card based on Toshiba's SpursEngine graphics...
(News) The shortage of Intel's Atom processor appears to be over.
(News) Japan's NTT DoCoMo is planning to buy a 25 percent stake in Indian telecommunications company Tata Telesystems, according to a...
(News) An SMB bug fixed by Microsoft Tuesday was publicly disclosed more than seven years ago.
(News) The new Yankee Stadium will feature digital signs from Cisco that can show live game play all around the venue.
(News) A former IT administrator has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking his former employer and breaking into other Bay Area...
(News) The current economic woes won't be as bad for tech companies as the Internet crash, Avaya chief Charles Giancarlo said.
(News) Microsoft released two security updates Tuesday to patch flaws in its software.
(News) SAP has confirmed the hiring of former Oracle applications executive John Wookey.
(News) A new Web service provides free conference calling for up to six people.
(News) iSoft released on Tuesday its Lorenzo health-care platform, elements of which are already in use as part of the U.K.'s health...
(News) While rumors persist that Nintendo is working on a new Wii console, complete with HD and some kind of new interface, the...
(News) SpringSource has purchased Groovy and Grails backer G2One for an undisclosed sum.
(News) NetSuite could get a sales boost from a new channel deal with Hewlett-Packard.
(News) Indian outsourcers will hire much fewer new staff this fiscal year than projected, said the chairman of a software and...
(News) Vodafone Group has once again decided to cut its revenue outlook, the company said when it announced half-year results on...
(News) Adaptec is launching two new Unified Serial storage adapters.
(News) Nvidia's latest graphics card offers high performance for professional applications.
(News) China's Datang invested US$172 million in the country's largest chip maker, SMIC.
(News) Avaya introduced software to convert voicemail messages to text and send both in an e-mail message.
(News) The CTO role has expanded and become more central to business strategy, according to the CTOs of HP and Cisco.
(News) Companies may be slowing or even stopping the flow of bonuses, according to Computerworld 's annual salary survey -- but many...
(News) All areas of the country are not created equal when it comes to compensation increases. For instance, according to...
(News) A federal judge on Friday ordered a former IBM executive who was recently hired by Apple Inc. to stop working for the...
(News) Former Oracle applications executive John Wookey has resurfaced at SAP.
(News) Circuit City Stores on Monday filed for bankruptcy protection to cut costs and turn around its deteriorating financial...
(News) Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus are poised for a long-term collaboration battle.
(News) IBM has put its Lotus Foundations Start software for SMBs on a new piece of hardware.
(News) Motorola is selling its software center in Malaysia to Indian outsourcer Satyam
(News) Intel launches a home health care device aimed at tracking conditions of patients, including those who are elderly.
(News) Its Gateway unit acquisition in 2007 is still haunting MPC, which filed for bankruptcy on Friday.
(News) The European Commission Friday scaled back its ambitions to create a U.S. Federal Communications Commission-style regulator.
(News) Chinese and U.S. representatives exchanged pleasantries and punches at an IPR forum in Beijing Friday, expressing disagreement...
(News) Small enterprises too can take advantage of cameras and GPS (Global Positioning System) built into mobile phones according to...
(News) Salesforce.com and Google execs had fighting words for software titans SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.
(News) Start-ups in Asia are already signing up to Microsoft's new BizSpark program.
(News) Panasonic will start discussions to take over Sanyo Electric with the aim of reaching a deal by the end of this year, the two...
(News) Despite slower shipments and lower profit, Lenovo says it will accelerate its expansion in emerging markets
(News) Panasonic and Sanyo Electric will start talks aimed at forming a capital and business tie-up between the two companies, they...
(News) Microsoft Research is using computer science to help researchers better understand HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
(News) LG Electronics has ended tie-up talks with Germany solar energy company Conergy due to the global economic slowdown, it said...
(News) Nvidia on Thursday said it would release the Tegra chip in the spring of 2009.
(News) FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Google's Larry Page promoted white-spaces wireless broadband together at a conference.
(News) Election week in the U.S. turned out to be another tumultuous time on the stock market for tech companies.
(News) Tech wages fell by more than 6 percent on average in the third quarter, according to the staffing firm Yoh.
(News) SAP is extending the maintenance period for its ERP 6.0 product, the company announced Thursday.
(News) The FCC decides to seek more comment on universal service and intercarrier compensation reform.
(News) IBM's research lab in India introduces program to encourage people to take up research as a career.
(News) HP Labs India is working on new technologies that it expects will help make Web browsing as easy as using an appliance.
(News) Dell plans to provide an additional broadband option in future laptops by installing white-spaces radios.
(News) Hackers have found a way to get root access to a G1 Android mobile phone.
(News) Hardware makers that hadn't developed device drivers compatible with Vista shouldn't have the same problem with Windows 7...
(News) Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz fielded questions from angry shareholders at Sun's stockholder meeting Wednesday.
(News) Intel will launch its first chip based on the next-generation Nehalem microarchitecture on Nov. 17.
(News) Tech vendors and groups praise the FCC vote Tuesday allowing unlicensed wireless broadband devices to operate in the TV...
(News) SAP's co-CEO faced a series of questions Wednesday about the company's recent maintenance hike.
(News) The head of WiMax operator Clearwire said its work is just beginning after the FCC's approval Tuesday of the company's joint...
(News) It's official. Or so it seems. Already the most active handset manufacturer in the developing world, Nokia this week made an...
(News) Microsoft's development and designer tools now available free in India.
(News) Indian outsourcers a little worried about Barack Obama's vow to keep jobs in the U.S.
(News) Yahoo claimed that opposition from the U.S. Department of Justice resulted in Google abandoning its ad deal with the company.
(News) Seven UK online music retailers will use a new logos to indicate which of their tracks are in the MP3 format and are free from...
(News) Google Wednesday abandoned its advertising deal with Yahoo, citing regulatory concerns.
(News) Intel's Nehalem chips, slated to ship later this month, Tuesday were called "blindingly fast" by an analyst who is using an...
(News) Microsoft is giving away free software to early-stage Web start-up companies as part of a worldwide program called BizSpark...
(News) Broadband subscribers all over the world are getting more their money. The cost for cable, fibre and DSL subscriptions are...
(News) Warner Bros. will launch a digital film rental service in partnership with a Beijing-based broadband company.
(News) Microsoft on Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), its largest such R&D facility...
(News) Strong sales of rechargable batteries and solar panels helped Sanyo achieve 4% higher sales in the April to September period...
(News) Sun and IBM are behind a new effort to provide tools for the Open Document Format.
(News) Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first African-American president of the U.S. in an election featuring historic...
(News) Data-protection software specialist Double-Take Software is aiming to enter the utility data center market.
(News) The FCC approves rules that would allow the operation of white-spaces devices in unused TV spectrum.
(News) Fujitsu's new laptop is challenging traditional usage of the Atom processor and could bite into sales of higher-end...
(News) Dell is offering unpaid days off and incentives for employees to leave the company as it tries to cut costs.
(News) E-voting glitches and long lines have caused problems for some voters in the U.S. presidential election, but a sense of...
(News) Nokia, the world's number-one mobile-phone maker, announced it plans to cut 600 employees.
(News) Storage manufacturer Seagate will release its first solid-state drive for enterprises by the middle of next year, CEO Bill...
(News) Google Apps Premier customers can now point Google Analytics at their domains.
(News) Tuesday could be a long day for election officials with U.S. states relying on electronic voting machines.
(News) One day, just one more day, and it will all be over.
(News) Nokia is launching new phones and a content service for emerging markets.
(News) Sales of Nintendo's DSi, the latest revision to its handhand gaming device, totaled 170,779 units during its first two days on...
(News) A Tokyo company has combined a digital audio system with a vacuum-tube amplifier and plans to sell it next year.
(News) Fujitsu will acquire Siemens' stake in their European computer joint-venture, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, the two said Tuesday...
(News) A man has been sentenced to a year in prison for turning his former employer's e-mail servers into open relay systems for...
(News) Processor shipments could slow down till 2010 due to reduced demand for chips and the global economic downturn, IDC said on...
(News) Dell will enter the data de-duplication business next year with products that are based on Quantum's software and compatible...
(News) Salesforce.com has linked its Force.com platform to services from Facebook and Amazon.com, the companies said Monday.
(News) E-voting technology has come a long way since the 2000 U.S. presidential election, when voting equipment problems erased an...
(News) The Federal Communications Commission postpones a vote on overhauling the Universal Service Fund and intercarrier...
(News) A startup CRM company is aiming squarely at Mac users for now.
(News) Citing a weakening economy and poor liquidity, Circuit City is shutting down unprofitable stores.
(News) The US FCC meets this week, looking to overhaul telephone subsidies.
(News) Wipro slows down on its Atlanta facility as economic downturn bites.
(News) Intel added a new warning into its 10Q about the risks it faces due to the economic downturn.
(News) A Japanese paper reports that Panasonic will begin negotiating with Sanyo Electric's top shareholders with the aim of...
(News) Google proposed settling lawsuits related to its book-scanning and indexing project, and word also seeped out through The Wall...
(News) The tough economy has created a buyer's market for enterprise IT purchases, according to users and analysts.
(News) Google and T-Mobile have begun pushing out a software update to a known flaw in the G1 Android phone.
(News) The U.S. isn't the only country where electronic voting machines are causing problems. Usability experts have some harsh words...
(News) Acer's Aspire one netbook shipments may beat those of the Asus Eee PC this year, despite an early lead by Asus.
(News) Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecommunications company, posts strong revenue growth, despite concerns about flagging...
(News) Putting Intel's Moorestown chips in a future version of the iPhone could make the handset less secure, a researcher warned.
(News) Sprint Nextel has recommitted itself to its Nextel business, which the struggling third-place U.S. mobile operator reportedly...
(News) Symantec plans layoffs that will cut its workforce budget by 4.5 percent.
(News) Financial reports are confirming market watchers' fears that the U.S. is heading into recession, dragging the global tech...
(News) Lower-income U.S. consumers are flocking to Apple's iPhone, according to research company ComScore Mobile.
(News) Microsoft is putting the Windows client OS on a diet as a way to bring the PC OS into the age of cloud computing.
(News) The DOJ requires Verizon to sell off some wireless assets in its acquisition of Alltel.
(News) Sun reported a quarterly loss Thursday, blaming the downturn in the financial sector.
(News) Supporters of Barack Obama and John McCain debated tech policy, discussing topics like universal broadband, H-1B visas and...
(News) So far, some new applications in the Android Market are low quality but analysts expect them to improve with time.
(News) By settling a lawsuit with book authors and publishers this week, Google is looking out for itself and has avoided fighting...
(News) Mauritius launched its Community Empowerment Program (CEP) last week with the aim of facilitating ICT use in order for...
(News) OpenOffice.org has released two patches that repair older versions of its open-source office software productivity suite.
(News) The Storage Networking World Europe show focused on Fibre Channel over Ethernet, which some see as a Trojan horse that Cisco...
(News) Motorola reported a loss of $397 million in Q3. It plans to cut costs by focusing on phones running software from Google and...
(News) Norwegian telecom operator Telenor will take a majority stake in an Indian mobile phone service company.
(News) Let's call it the Loch Ness monster video of the touch-screen e-voting world.
(News) TSMC forecast a big revenue decline in the fourth quarter and said it will cut capital spending next year due to the global...
(News) Alcatel-Lucent posts a loss yet again, the reported net loss for the third quater was reported at
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(News) Sales of the Wii and DS fell in Japan but rose elsewhere in the April to September half, Nintendo said Thursday.
(News) Mitsubishi Electric has cut its full-year sales and profits forecast due to worsening business conditions caused by the global...
(News) Pioneer has revised down earnings and expects losses this year to be four times as bad as previously expected, it said...
(News) A Japanese display start-up is well on the way to commercializing a 3-meter wide flexible plasma display and expects the first...
(News) Pioneer won on Wednesday a patent infringement lawsuit it filed against Samsung SDI over plasma display panel (PDP)...
(News) Juniper and Ixia unveiled a way to test network equipment for power efficiency.
(News) While injuries can occur in any workplace, when something happens at an IT-related business, women employees are more likely...
(News) A woman is sentenced to fraud-related charges connected to the sale of Internet kiosks.
(News) A decision to narrow the number of operating systems it supports would be a good plan for Motorola, analysts said.
(News) There could be job cuts ahead for Indian industry, including the technology sector, according to a trade body.
(News) Startup ParaScale is launching new software that it claims can turn a group of heterogeneous servers and storage arrays into a...
(News) Four former HR execs at Dell file a discrimination lawsuit against the company.
(News) Compliance is about to become as much of an issue for European organizations as it is for their U.S. counterparts, according...
(News) Quantum has enhanced and renamed its Vision storage management software, and added a low-end 9T-byte version of its DXi7500...
(News) Samsung SDI is working on a prototype 40-inch OLED screen with full high definition.
(News) Mobile web sites can integrate content from Google Docs, Picasa or Flickr to create mobile mashups using software from...
(News) Taiwan's Chi Mei EL has developed a 25-inch OLED screen that's less than a millimeter thick
(News) Fujitsu has revised down its full-year financial forecast due to tough conditions in component markets and the strong Japanese...
(News) Sony reduced the operating loss in its PlayStation division as revenue rose 10 percent.
(News) Google has launched Labs for Google Apps, new downloadable extensions for its enterprise customers.
(News) While much will be said about Microsoft's cloud-computing strategy introduced Monday, at the heart of Windows Azure is a...
(News) A former contract systems administrator will serve six months in prison for sabotaging systems at his former employer after...
(News) SAP may divest its hosting division to focus instead on its "core business" of software and services.
(News) Microsoft showed off Windows 7 for the first time and said the OS will reflect lessons learned from Vista.
(News) Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has officially filled the shoes previously worn by founder and Chairman Bill...
(News) Google has settled lawsuits brought against it by major publishers and authors that argued that Google's wholesale scanning...
(News) Microsoft on Tuesday will give developers a preview of a hosted version of Office.
(News) CSC inaugurated a new IT services delivery center in the Chinese coastal city of Tianjin on Tuesday.
(News) Google has settled copyright lawsuits brought by book publishers.
(News) Intel plans on investing its way through the financial crisis and announced that it is spending US$170 million on new projects...
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´s Zimbra will make its cloud computing debut on Tuesday.
(News) Sony is updating its innovative Rolly digital audio player with new software options and a fresh coat of paint.
(News) SAP profits made modest gains in the third quarter, but the company cancelled its sales forecast for the rest of the year.
(News) Storage and data-management software developer NetApp said it plans to cancel a user conference due to the worsening economic...
(News) Microsoft on Monday offered a software development kit for its tabletop computer to about 1,000 people at its Professional...
(News) Cox Communications will build its own cellular network to eventually cover all markets it serves across the U.S., the cable...
(News) Researchers found a security flaw in the first Android phones to hit the market, and Google says it is working on a fix for...
(News) Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie Monday revealed Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform.
(News) Overstock.com is revising its earnings for recent years and blaming it largely on problems with an Oracle ERP implementation.
(News) CenturyTel agrees to buy rival telecom carrier Embarq for $5.8 billion.
(News) Verizon reports its net income was up more than 31 percent for the quarter.
(News) NEC will later this week unveil new electronic paper displays that are said to offer higher visibility than newspapers.
(News) Shares in Japan's major electronics companies slid again on Monday as the Nikkei 225 index hit its lowest level in 26 years...
(News) IBM is set to hammer home its "Information Agenda" mantra at a conference that starts Monday.
(News) A revised version of Sony's LittleBigPlanet game has begun shipping days after launch was postponed because it included a song...
(News) Applications are leading games in downloads from Google's Android Market.
(News) Several groups called on the FCC to delay a vote on white spaces wireless technology.
(News) Researchers have identified a new worm that takes advantage of the critical security bug patched yesterday by Microsoft.
(News) Waste Management's lawsuit against SAP regarding an alleged botched ERP implementation has turned increasingly rancorous...
(News) Verizon Wireless settled a lawsuit brought by Klausner over visual voicemail patents.
(News) Microsoft launched a new portal to let developers learn about new Microsoft projects geared toward the developer community.
(News) The question of how to assess patentability of software-related inventions has been sent to the European Patent Office's...
(News) Datamonitor says on-demand CRM companies may be growing in terms of subscription revenue, but profits aren't keeping pace.
(News) In an effort to crack down on Internet child porn, the EU will create an online alert platform that people can use to report...
(News) Russian regulators will not let Google buy a local online advertising company, halting a $140 million deal agreed to in July.
(News) India's mobile market continues to boom despite concern about weaker consumer spending in the country.
(News) Investors reacted to Sony's earnings revision by pushing the price of its shares down to levels not seen for 13 years on...
(News) Steep declines in the price of some of Samsung Electronics' major products pushed quarterly profits down and worse could be on...
(News) The fake Internet report earlier this month claiming Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack was posted by a teenager who...
(News) Intel repudiated criticism of Apple's iPhone made by two executives this week.
(News) Microsoft's CFO outlined a three-part plan the company will undertake to weather the current economic crisis.
(News) Security vendor Immunity has developed attack code that exploits a critical Microsoft flaw.
(News) Multiyear annuity sales lifted Microsoft's revenue 9 percent for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, but the company lowered...
(News) SAP has sunk money into LinkedIn, but it's unclear exactly what SAP has in mind with the investment.
(News) Amazon Web Services is testing EC2 running Windows Server and SQL Server.
(News) Google has finally fixed a problem affecting the e-mail service of its Apps suite.
(News) In the wake of Beijing's successful Olympics, London is preparing for what will be the most demanding multimedia Olympics ever...
(News) Microsoft will not sell the video game Fallout 3 in India to avoid hurting cultural sensitivities.
(News) A judge in the Netherlands ruled this week that stealing virtual goods is a crime.
(News) The European Commission has criticized Belgium's national telecoms regulator for not enforcing effective competition in the...
(News) Ericsson has managed to get in excess of 100M bps out of next-generation mobile technology LTE (Long Term Evolution), during...
(News) Microsoft on Thursday responded to user outrage over a new anti-piracy plug-in that blacks out the screen of computers loaded...
(News) Sony has revised down its financial outlook for the full year due to lower sales of key products as a result of the slowing...
(News) The investment firm that has taken a 21 percent stake in Sun Microsystems says that Sun is a software company.
(News) Microsoft hosted-services partner Intermedia has launched a whimsical ad campaign that pokes fun at Microsoft's...
(News) A handful of West Virginia voters say e-voting machines switched their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates during...
(News) Google said that starting next week, any developer can upload applications to the Android Market.
(News) EMC reported double-digit revenue growth for the third quarter and forecast another revenue gain in the fourth quarter despite...
(News) The first day of sales for the first Android phone was relatively quiet, especially compared to the iPhone launch.
(News) A trade group study of the EU finds that open software is being shut out of public procurements.
(News) Effects of the economic downturn are being felt at Indian outsourcing companies including Tata.
(News) NetSuite is hoping to entice Salesforce CRM customers with a new discount offer.
(News) AT&T reports a 5.5 percent increase in net income for the third quarter, largely due to demand for iPhone 3G service.
(News) Wipro's revenue grows but profit growth is flat in the quarter ended September 30.
(News) First there was Silverthorne, an Atom processor designed for mobile Internet devices. And then came Diamondville, a version of...
(News) Samsung Electronics has withdrawn its offer to acquire rival flash memory-maker SanDisk citing a lack of progress after six...
(News) VMware's CEO outlined changes for the company Tuesday, including a hiring freeze and plans for separate product divisions.
(News) Yahoo will lay off at least 10 percent of its global staff before the end of the year.
(News) WebLogic users are temporarily unable to directly download some older versions of the software, an Oracle official said.
(News) VMware's Q3 results were better than analysts expected, with US$472 million in revenue.
(News) IBM Wednesday will roll out its first hosted Lotus Notes service for as low as US$8 a month, per user.
(News) Seattle venture capitalist Tony Huseby remains optimistic about venture capital markets despite economic downturn.
(News) Google is fixing a problem that's keeping new Apps users from accessing their Gmail service.
(News) The U.S. government has taken several steps to reduce and combat identity theft, a new report says.
(News) Fring has secured its first agreement with a mobile operator, the company announced on Tuesday at the Symbian smart phone...
(News) Google on Tuesday planned to release the source code to its Android mobile operating system.
(News) A judge is asking Oracle and SAP to specify dollar amounts to settle their lawsuit.
(News) Symbian released a free tool on Tuesday that lets developers see how their code performs on the mobile operating system.
(News) Chip designer Arm Holdings released on Tuesday its first application profiling tool for the Symbian operating system.
(News) Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford said Tuesday developers don't have to wait until the Symbian code is released to begin developing...
(News) With ten days to go until Nintendo's new DSi handheld gaming device debuts in Japan excitement for the product is muted on...
(News) LG Electronics plans to construct two solar cell production lines in space occupied by a PDP manufacturing line at a plant in...
(News) Intel is targeting embedded device makers with a new support Web site to be unveiled next year.
(News) Microsoft unveiled what it says is unprecedented success in efforts to prevent people from pirating or counterfeiting...
(News) Sun warned of a wider-than-expected loss in preliminary quarterly results.
(News) Executives in the mobile industry said that the economic downturn will probably make mobile developers less likely to target...
(News) Epicor will release its long-awaited Epicor 9 ERP product by the end of the year.
(News) An 18-year-old New Jersey man has been charged in the January 2008 DDOS attacks on the Church of Scientology.
(News) Google annoyed administrators when it made changes to Google Apps "Start" portal pages without letting them know it was...
(News) Google Apps administrators are complaining that their Start page portals are malfunctioning.
(News) The world's economic woes could bring about lower prices for on-demand software.
(News) A U.S. law that allows carriers to be granted immunity in some suits alleging illegal surveillance is unconstitutional, two...
(News) Google Apps administrators are complaining that their Start page portals are malfunctioning.
(News) Google finally solved a Gmail outage that lasted about 30 hours.
(News) Two groups question an FCC report on white-space devices and interference.
(News) Threatening e-mails to India's President land tech worker in jail.
(News) AMD to details plans for the netbook segment next month.
(News) IT quarterly financial reports, while mixed, offered some good news to investors this week.
(News) The FBI said that a two-year sting operation targeting card-fraud forums has netted 56 arrests.
(News) Microsoft is considering adding an "Instant On" feature to the Windows client OS.
(News) AMD reported its eighth consecutive quarterly loss for its third quarter.
(News) IBM reports third-quarter revenue of US$25.3 billion, up 5 percent from the year before, although hardware and service...
(News) Google grew its revenue and profit in Q3 and pledged to weather the global financial crisis without compromising long-term...
(News) A startup is readying a platform that will allow any Internet-ready application or device easily communicate with another.
(News) Mozilla plans to release an Alpha version of its new mobile browser, called Fennec, on Thursday.
(News) Cybersecurity experts urge computer users to pay attention to their online activities.
(News) The music industry is going through a lot of changes as it tries to grapple with the move to digital, but these days it is...
(News) The Metasploit hacking project has released attack code for a recently patched Microsoft Host Integration Server bug.
(News) A prolonged Gmail outage that started Wednesday won't be solved until Thursday night, and Google Apps admins are upset.
(News) SAP asked a U.S. judge to throw out some of the claims Oracle made in its lawsuit over TomorrowNow, claiming that Oracle is...
(News) Norwegian police charged Fast Search & Transfer with accounting fraud on Thursday, an enterprise search company owned by...
(News) The British government is slowing down a proposal that would give law enforcement sweeping power to collect electronic data.
(News) Nokia reported third-quarter earnings down 28 percent on a year earlier, and revenue down 5 percent. Its share of the mobile...
(News) A recent promotional swing through Silicon Valley by representatives of the Xi'an municipal government called attention to...
(News) An FCC report says prototype wireless broadband devices were generally able to sense signals from TV stations and wireless...
(News) LifeSize unveiled a new line of telepresence systems on Wednesday at prices much lower than Cisco's.
(News) A woman has pleaded guilty to helping spam kingpin Alan Ralsky send out millions of unwanted e-mail messages.
(News) TopCoder is taking its competition-driven software development service to the midmarket.
(News) The chief of the FBI's Cyber Division says cyber threats have grown in sophistication in the past year.
(News) Nokia's new all-you-can-download music subscription service packaged with its mobile phones is a compelling offering that...
(News) U.S politicians are embracing new ways of campaigning through mobile technologies.
(News) Washington, D.C., is using Google Apps to power a new Intranet with next-generation capabilities.
(News) Intel narrowly beat analyst expectations for its third quarter, but the company said future gains are uncertain.
(News) The FTC and the New Zealand government have brought civil suits against one of the world's largest spam operations.
(News) A U.S. appeals court overturned an import ban on phones that use a patented Broadcom technology, but Broadcom said it would...
(News) Novell is planning to scoop up BSM vendor Managed Objects for an undisclosed sum, Novell said Tuesday.
(News) Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals...
(News) Cisco is setting up mobile labs for certification of professionals as one of many steps to boost the number of professionals...
(News) Microsoft plans to add voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), collaboration and Web presence enhancements to the next version of...
(News) U.S. President George W. Bush Monday signed into law a bill designed to increase protection of intellectual property.
(News) The first Xbox Live Arcade game developed in China will be released this week.
(News) Sun Microsystems has doubled the capacity of its Niagara servers with the four-socket Sparc Enterprise T5440 system.
(News) The release of a new version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite hit a snag Monday when Web-site problems made...
(News) Microsoft is suing cargo-delivery service DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox game consoles because of a Texas train...
(News) Not all of this week's news involved global financial turmoil: while IT budgets are being cut and AMD is breaking itself up, a...
(News) The Linux Foundation is attempting to get "high-end" Linux end-users more involved in kernel development.
(News) A new Forrester Research report finds SAP customers are still angry over the vendor's recent maintenance increase.
(News) Oracle will likely weather the global financial storm just fine, CEO Larry Ellison said Friday.
(News) Zoho has added an e-mail application to its suite of Web-hosted applications.
(News) Gomibako, or "garbage can" in English, is a drop down puzzle game that replaces the usual shapes with, well, garbage.
(News) IBM and Beijing's Palace Museum have launched a virtual tour of the Forbidden City.
(News) Among the myriad of handheld games on show at this year's Tokyo Game Show is "Final Fantasy: Dissidia."
(News) Infosys' revenue and profit growth flag in the wake of economic uncertainty in the U.S., and the strengthening dollar.
(News) The Tokyo Game Show saw an 8 percent drop in attendance on Thursday, the first day of the four-day long show, organizers said...
(News) Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the fourth main installment of the Star Ocean saga and marks the arrival of the series on next...
(News) Visitors to the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society's Web site prefer Barack Obama for president.
(News) A long-standing court test using community standards to determine whether adult content is criminally obscene has been a...
(News) Amazon will soon begin to offer volume discounts to customers of its S3 hosted storage service.
(News) In Windows 7 Microsoft plans to improve the user account control (UAC) feature, a new feature it put in Vista that caused...
(News) Microsoft will ship 11 security patches next week, with critical fixes for Active Directory, Internet Explorer, Excel, and the...
(News) Micron plans to lay off 15 percent of its workforce and stop producing NAND flash memory from its Boise, Idaho, facility.
(News) A British startup is preparing to launch a Web-based collaboration service for business with a screen-sharing feature.
(News) A CRM vendor's ex-CEO, charged with wire fraud, has been deemed a flight risk by federal authorities.
(News) Sony will launch later this year a service that allows software titles that were previously restricted to ad hoc network...
(News) It's the first day of Tokyo Game Show and I was able to get a quick hands on with Square-Enix's upcoming role-playing game for...
(News) Microsoft is co-sponsoring a study to see if people who learn about their genetic risk for disease actually change their...
(News) The 13th annual Tokyo Game Show opened on Thursday morning with a record number of game titles on display from a record number...
(News) Accused Sarah Palin hacker David Kernell allegedly got into school systems in middle school too.
(News) A partnership between Nokia and Nuance will make speech-recognition capabilities available to third-party developers as well...
(News) Microsoft and others have filed motions indicating they hope to be paid for products or services supplied to failed bank...
(News) IBM preannounced third-quarter earnings Wednesday that beat analysts' expectations, though revenue fell short.
(News) Two former executives of CRM vendor Entellium are facing federal wire-fraud charges, the U.S. Attorney's office said...
(News) David Kernell is facing five years in prison for allegedly hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account...
(News) Mozilla has released an add-on to its Firefox that enables the browser to automatically pinpoint a user's location through...
(News) Broadcom has filed another patent suit against Qualcomm, continuing the long-running battle between the chip makers.
(News) ICTs are regularly touted as holding great potential to enhance the work of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), working for...
(News) Sprint said adoption of its WiMax service in Baltimore has exceeded expectations and it is confident it will be able to fund a...
(News) Google is extending its hosted e-mail archiving service to hold messages up to a decade, the company said Wednesday.
(News) Oracle is planning to buy Primavera, maker of project portfolio management software, it announced Wednesday.
(News) Panasonic hit a milestone on Oct. 7, producing its 300 millionth TV set.
(News) Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services has acquired the back office services division in India of Citigroup
(News) Microsoft has detailed the Xbox 360 games that will be available on its booth at the Tokyo Game Show, which opens on Thursday...
(News) MySQL cofounder David Axmark is resigning from Sun next month.
(News) A computer game partially controlled by brainwaves will be demonstrated at this week's Tokyo Game Show, the developers said...
(News) Namco Bandai has a sequel to We Ski. Called We Ski & Snowboard, the game has new courses and extra challengers for gamers...
(News) Namco Bandai's new Splatterhouse is coming to X360 and PS3 next year and isn't something for the faint-hearted.
(News) Game developer Namco Bandai previewed its line-up of games for this year's Tokyo Game Show (TGS) on Tuesday and it includes...
(News) CA has bought identity-management vendor IDFocus.
(News) Getting Linux to mainstream customers will be key to Red Hat's growth, CEO Jim Whitehurst said Tuesday.
(News) A federal judge has ordered spammers to pay a small Iowa ISP $236 million in damages.
(News) Japan's largest telecom has formed a partnership with EnterpriseDB, maker of an open-source database.
(News) The pastor of a mega-church in Texas asks the U.S. FCC to rule against the use of new wireless devices in TV spectrum.
(News) Dell will combine its storage hardware with Symantec or CommVault software for SMB backup and recovery.
(News) Analysts praise AMD for splitting off its chip-manufacturing business.
(News) Aster Data Systems has updated its "front line" analytic database system.
(News) Microsoft, NYU and other colleges are launching an institute to get middle schoolers engaged in math and science.
(News) An ambitious project is under way in Wales to build one of the most advanced data centers in Europe.
(News) India's Pramati is launching software widgets in line with its focus on adding social and collaboration elements to web sites...
(News) Bull is acquiring German high-performance computing company science + computing, and at the same time selling its Medicaid...
(News) Japan's computer gaming market shrank by 21% in the April to September period due mainly to sharply lower sales of game...
(News) The publisher of Japan's Famitsu game mag sees Final Fantasy XIII, Dragon Quest IX, Monster Hunter 3 and White Knight...
(News) AMD is preparing a to spin-off its manufacturing operations to a joint venture in an attempt to cut costs, according to a...
(News) Oracle and SAP held settlement talks in their TomorrowNow lawsuit Monday but failed to reach an agreement to end the case.
(News) Google said that it will delay its search advertising deal with Yahoo while the DOJ continues its antitrust investigation into...
(News) At least those of us who are fans of professional baseball have the playoffs to take our minds off the grim news this week (at...
(News) More than one-quarter of mobile-phone users in the U.S. have stopped using their fixed-line phones for voice calls, J.D. Power...
(News) Congress passes an R&D tax credit extension as part of the financial services bailout bill.
(News) Microsoft will provide hardware partners with media to let their customers downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP for an...
(News) Microsoft has discontinued its mobile browser project, Deepfish.
(News) When the Olympic flame extinguished on Aug. 24, it ended a phase of modern Chinese history that began more than 15 years...
(News) Microsoft denies that it has instituted a hiring freeze, despite aninternal memo described by an employee indicating the move.
(News) Network operator Orange will rate the environmental impact of the fixed-line and mobile phones it sells.
(News) IBM plans to open a new data center in Scotland intended for medium-size businesses, the company said Friday.
(News) Two European men have been indicted for allegedly orchestrating cyberattacks against two Web sites, according to the DOJ.
(News) Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said in a newspaper interview that the DSi would launch overseas 'probably' in 2009.
(News) Reservation tickets for Nintendo's DSi are already hitting Japanese online auction sites less than a day after it was...
(News) Federal investigators said an engineer involved in a fatal Los Angeles-area commuter train crash was texting on his cell phone...
(News) California became the second state to make it illegal to steal information from RFID cards.
(News) The US financial crisis is taking a toll on IT share prices, but underlying confidence in the midterm scenario for IT vendor...
(News) Red Hat released a high-performance Linux OS stack that undercuts Microsoft on price for its comparable Windows offering.
(News) Many U.S. computer users still do not take basic precautions to protect against cyberattacks, a survey says.
(News) Nintendo's new DSi is lighter and thinner but wider and deeper than the DS Lite, according to statistics from the company.
(News) Nintendo is refreshing its two-year old DS Lite handheld with a new version that's thinner, has dual-digital cameras and will...
(News) Murata is experimenting with ways to generate electric power from heat.
(News) Fujitsu is in talks to sell its hard-disk drive business to Western Digital, according to a report in the Thursday morning...
(News) The U.S. Congress passes a broadband mapping bill.
(News) Hewlett-Packard will buy LeftHand Networks for US$360 million [m] to fill in its storage virtualization and iSCSI lines for...
(News) Microsoft is expanding its enterprise-search research center in Norway.
(News) RFID chips for e-passports can be cloned and modified without detection, representing a gaping security hole in...
(News) Amazon plans to add support for Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server to its EC2 cloud computing service.
(News) Warning: Your keyboard could be a danger to you and the environment.
(News) Broadcom will enhance its mobile device chipsets and LBS infrastructure through a partnership with Wi-Fi location system...
(News) AMD said servers based on its Shanghai processor will ship on time in the fourth quarter.
(News) Konica Minolta has shown its latest wearable display, which sends and receives video and audio across Wi-Fi networks.
(News) RealNetworks and the MPAA filed lawsuits against each other over the RealDVD copying software.
(News) Prices and terms for the WiMax service that Sprint Nextel launched on Monday stand up against other wired and wireless...
(News) A Sprint news release on WiMax differs from its acceptable use policy on file sharing, raising questions about network...
(News) With the imminent release of Silverlight 2.0, developers and Web designers, particularly those already working in Microsoft IT...
(News) Nokia plans to buy Oz Communications, the developer of mobile software for accessing Internet e-mail services.
(News) Nokia will stop developing its enterprise mobile e-mail platform Intellisync, basing future enterprise e-mail systems on...
(News) Panasonic showed off a prototype remote control that uses two trackpads instead of buttons.
(News) Toshiba showed off a prototype SCiB battery designed for laptops at the Ceatec exhibition in Japan.
(News) Japan's Murata Manufacturing has unveiled Seiko, a robot that can balance and move on a unicycle.
(News) Sharp has announced the price of its thin XS-series TV sets and its substantially more than current models.
(News) Toshiba showed off its 256G-byte SSD at the Ceatec exhibition in Japan.
(News) Monday's stock bloodbath hit tech companies harder than most.
(News) Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed technology that can keep microprocessor bugs from seizing up a PC.
(News) Microsoft will begin offering its Select Plus volume discount program on Wednesday, although an analyst said few companies may...
(News) Eleven lawmakers call on the U.S. Department of Justice to approve a proposed advertising deal between Google and Yahoo.
(News) Small virtual-OS company G.ho.st says Microsoft's use of the phrase "no walls" in its Windows marketing campaign violates its...
(News) Barack Obama's mention of rural broadband in Friday's debate earns praise.
(News) Savvis has rolled out a service that lets ISVs offer a single tenant application in a SaaS model.
(News) The new Mauritian IT minister faces many challenges.
(News) Sanyo Electric is planning to substantially expand production of solar-cell wafers with the construction of a new factory in...
(News) The story "Alcatel-Lucent loses $1.5B award in Microsoft patent suit," posted Friday, has been clarified. The fourth paragraph...
(News) A Google patent application describes a system that would let operators bid real time for the opportunity to offer service to...
(News) Microsoft has given small and mid-sized business customers more ways to earn cash to buy software through partners by updating...
(News) A broad group of advocates asks the U.S. presidential candidates for debate formats that would be friendly to voters and the...
(News) Two Indian outsourcers are in a bidding war for Axon, a UK consultancy.
(News) Groups on both sides of a debate on whether Google's proposed ad deal with Yahoo should be approved step up their pressure.
(News) A Florida man was sentenced to three years probation Thursday for helping run a server used for illegally sharing computer...
(News) Technology and entertainment heavyweights are undertaking a public relations campaign to dissuade consumers from illegal file...
(News) Visa wants to become a part of your mobile phone, working with Nokia on realizing mobile payments and also announcing services...
(News) Microsoft is the only company in a position to challenge Google in online search, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
(News) Nissan Motor engineers have developed a collision avoidance system that draws inspiration from the way a bee flies and will...
(News) A unicycling robot, prototype fuel cells and a TV that doesn't need a stand are just some of whats promised at next week's...
(News) Apple is selling unlocked iPhone 3G handsets in Hong Kong through its online Apple Store.
(News) The story "Microsoft's Africa chairman tackles access problem" used confusing wording to describe a theoretical exchange...
(News) Mozilla hopes to release a Firefox 3.0.3 update early next week to fix a password bug affecting some users.
(News) As the U.S. financial crisis roiled markets, stock buybacks from Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard and earnings from Red Hat and...
(News) EMC plans to hand down advanced features, including de-duplication and even virtualization, to Iomega-branded consumer...
(News) The U.S. FCC offers a new proposal for auctioning off spectrum to be used to build a nationwide public safety network.
(News) U.S. electronic voting experts called for post-election auditing and open-source software to help ensure fair votes in the...
(News) T-Mobile said it has lifted the 1G-byte download limit to its data plan for the Android phone, but still plans to announce...
(News) European public sector open-source guidelines are igniting a legal debate.
(News) Three large ISPs call for privacy policies that would require providers to get customer permission before tracking online...
(News) U.S. financial sector crises will affect Indian outsourcers, say analysts and a trade body.
(News) Microsoft's Mundies: Multicore processors will spark new, dynamic applications for virtual representations of the real world.
(News) Broadband access to the internet should be a universal service for all European Union citizens, the European Commission said...
(News) Low-power processor designer Transmeta is looking for a buyer.
(News) New research shows that most Web surfers are too eager to get rid of error messages that could be fake and potentially...
(News) Larry Ellison unveiled a new database and storage server products designed for high-performance data warehousing.
(News) An appeals court upheld an injunction preventing Qualcomm from selling certain products that infringe Broadcom patents.
(News) Oracle may not ship the initial suite of Fusion Applications until 2010, according to an executive.
(News) Google's Larry Page calls on the U.S. FCC to approve white spaces devices.
(News) The U.S. DOJ opposes a copyright protection bill in the Senate.
(News) Staples is offering an automatic online backup and recovery service for small businesses.
(News) It's becoming easier for open-source developers to find investors and sell software in the U.S. than in Europe.
(News) India added 9 million mobile subscribers in August talking the total to 305 million.
(News) The U.S. Senate approves an extension to a research and development tax credit.
(News) IBM opens new cloud computing centers in four locations.
(News) Oracle's development chief discussed cloud computing strategy but kept quiet regarding Fusion Applications on Tuesday.
(News) A grand jury looking into the hacking of Sarah Palin's Yahoo account has concluded its first day with no indictment.
(News) The EC is proposing a cap on the fees operators can charge for text messages that mobile phone users send while they're...
(News) Oracle announced a new application grid product suite at OpenWorld this week.
(News) The first Android phone clearly indicates that the device was designed to help Google gain a foothold in the mobile...
(News) TeleNav unveiled a server to ease integration between its mobile software and back-end systems.
(News) A former Alcatel official is sentenced on bribery charges.
(News) Amazon's hosted Simple Queue Service has encountered several error rates this month that have users questioning its stability...
(News) IBM is threatening to leave organizations that write standards used for creating interoperable software programs.
(News) Unisys CEO Joseph McGrath will resign his position, the company said Tuesday.
(News) Software AG's new CentraSite ActiveSOA will finally merge the company's SOA metadata management tool with a governance tool it...
(News) Hon Hai and Asustek denied a reported plan to unite their contract manufacturing divisions.
(News) Oracle won't be discussing a release date for its 11g R2 database during OpenWorld, a top executive said.
(News) Congress debates three bills aimed at online sales of stolen goods.
(News) Oracle announced a series of minor product updates Monday, including the first patch of its 11g database.
(News) Policymakers call for a comprehensive U.S. broadband policy that brings the service to more parts of the country.
(News) Oracle has revamped its customer support portal to provide more personalized service, the company said Monday.
(News) A former State Department worker pleads guilty to viewing the passport files of more than 200 people.
(News) The European Parliament stalls a decision on whether IP addresses should be considered private, instead requesting a report on...
(News) Oracle is now offering its 11g database and middleware on Amazon's cloud platform.
(News) Oracle is hoping to get Fusion Applications into the hands of early adopters in 2009, an executive said.
(News) Tibco released an update to its complex-event processing software on Monday.
(News) Contract DRAM prices for the second half of September plunged 18 percent to new record lows, DRAMeXchange said Monday.
(News) Samsung's bid for SanDisk has not stemmed the global decline in NAND flash memory prices.
(News) Two companies have settled a class-action lawsuit charging them with sending unauthorized text messages to cell phone users.
(News) Google is closing an engineering office in Tempe, Arizona, in a rare setback for the company.
(News) The week got off to a rough start with the collapse of Lehman Brothers sending shudders through global financial markets and...
(News) The first Android phone, expected to be introduced on Tuesday, probably won't create the same excitement as the iPhone.
(News) A French mobile operator could face a lawsuit for administration of a harmful substance following a complaint by a family...
(News) Google steps up its defense of its proposed ad deal with Yahoo.
(News) A vendor's "token-based" approach to licensing is not common now but could grow in prevalence.
(News) Cisco Systems is planning to buy instant-messaging platform maker Jabber for an undisclosed sum.
(News) Acer says global financial turmoil isn't slowing it down, and its PC sales are on track to meet goals.
(News) T-Mobile hopes to let developers get their applications approved for its network in days with a new program.
(News) Nvidia said it plans to lay off 360 people by the end of October.
(News) Industry insiders remain hopeful that tech companies won't be dragged down as Wall Street giants collapse.
(News) Oracle came out slightly ahead of analysts' expectations in its Q1 2009 results Thursday.
(News) The EFF files a lawsuit against U.S. officials for a surveillance program run by the U.S. NSA.
(News) Consumers in India are sticking to the original iPhone due to the 3G's high price and the lack of a 3G network in the country...
(News) Customers at the VMworld conference this week were largely unconcerned or unaware of the turmoil rocking the company.
(News) Amazon is developing a hosted content delivery service for developers.
(News) Oracle is set to launch iGovernment, a new product heading for public-sector companies.
(News) Regulators in Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia aren't independent enough and are too weak to uphold E.U. telecoms laws, the...
(News) Telecoms were invited to comment on E.U. plans for high-speed, next generation access networks.
(News) The French government will not reverse a decree allowing police to record the sexuality and religion of suspects in their...
(News) European data protection supervisor Peter Hustinx wants some changes to a plan to link up all national criminal databases in...
(News) IBM plans to expand a Taiwan design center.
(News) "Less is more" was a theme of the first day of the Web 2.0 Expo in New York.
(News) Brocade told analysts its Foundry acquisition will make it uniquely equipped to battle Cisco.
(News) Eight people and eight businesses face charges related to exporting tech products to Iran, the U.S. DOJ said.
(News) VMware will bring a new version of its VirtualCenter management software to Linux and the iPhone, its CTO said Wednesday.
(News) Wikileaks claims to have published details from Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo account.
(News) The U.S. EPA is doing little to stop U.S. companies from exporting e-waste containing toxic substances, a report says.
(News) IBM is launching a worldwide center for the development of social-networking technology.
(News) India's reputation as an innovation hub is over-hyped, says Forrester Research, and various others in IT in India agree.
(News) IBM is working with Taiwanese researcher ITRI to further develop racetrack memory chips and find new products for Cell...
(News) Canon has updated its three-year old EOS 5D digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera with a new model that features the ability...
(News) Microsoft and Pioneer agreed to cross license patents related to consumer and automotive devices.
(News) Intel said its new server chips allow customers to move virtual machines to another server even if it is based on a different...
(News) U.S. regulators would likely reject a deal by Samsung to buy SanDisk for competitive reasons, analysts say.
(News) SanDisk has rejected Samsung's unsolicited takeover offer, saying it undervalues the company.
(News) Samsung said it is offering $26 per share for SanDisk.
(News) VMware's CEO pitched the company's virtual data center OS, downplaying the significance of Microsoft Windows.
(News) Two security researchers have cancelled an upcoming talk on clickjacking because it would have disclosed a critical Adobe bug...
(News) The current economic crisis will affect IT spending next year, Forrester says.
(News) Microsoft laid out a timeline for when it will release new products integrating technology from its acquisition of DATAllegro...
(News) Several groups call on the U.S. Congress to create a national broadband policy.
(News) Google showed its Android OS running on a mobile phone for the first time in Europe on Tuesday in a cautious screening ahead...
(News) Microsoft will soon release tools and methods it has used over the last few years to reduce the number of security problems in...
(News) Oracle still hasn't launched a high-profile customer outreach effort that was supposed to begin Sept. 9.
(News) The U.S. has the best IT environment, but other countries are catching up, according to a new study.
(News) Mobile services part of the Rich Communication Suite Initiative will get a boost as industry organization GSM Association...
(News) New business control process that might result from the current financial turmoil could help India's IT outsourcing industry...
(News) Casio launched the Exilim FH20 Tuesday, a more compact camera than the F1 that offers higher resolution and costs less.
(News) Apple has patched a flaw in the DNS software used by Mac OS X.
(News) Startup vendor Bluenog is aiming at mid-market companies with a new portal, business intelligence and content management...
(News) A coalition of elections groups calls on Congress to require post-election audits of e-voting systems.
(News) Intel's Xeon 7400 is the first chip designed by the company in India.
(News) Intel is shipping its latest Xeon chip, the six-core Xeon 7400.
(News) Ease of use has driven "media-savvy" consumers to piracy, but a new initiative has the power to lure them back.
(News) Twenty-three technology startups are learning this week in London what it takes to turn an idea into a viable business.
(News) For NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) and developers alike, the ICT4D space can be a tough nut to crack. While NGOs...
(News) Sun has launched an open-source project hosting site that will go up against Google Code and others.
(News) Infobright is now offering an open-source data warehousing product, the company announced Monday.
(News) When it comes to new gadgets there's nothing better than a product that breaks ground in a market sector or does something...
(News) EA is giving up on its attempt to acquire rival Take-Two Interactive.
(News) The European Commission is calling for a meeting with producer countries to discuss tariffs on IT devices, such as...
(News) An e-mail notice about the attack went out minutes before a series of blasts rocked Delhi.
(News) Dell announced a number of new products around virtualization in advance of VMworld.
(News) U.S. government policy makers will soon focus on the privacy, security and other implications of cloud computing, some experts...
(News) The BBC's iPlayer is setting the pace for online video in the U.K., embracing the latest technologies while also navigating...
(News) The technology behind almost every electronics device in the world, the integrated circuit or IC, is celebrating its 50th...
(News) Panasonic is developing a version of its Lumix G1 digital still camera with the ability to record high-definition video with...
(News) Panasonic has developed a digital still camera that straddles the boundary between compact point-and-shoot models and larger...
(News) Broadband speeds in the U.K., Italy and Spain and many other countries are barely keeping pace with the demands of Web-based...
(News) India's IT market will grow to US$110 billion by 2012.
(News) If China Mobile made any splash as a top-level sponsor of the Beijing Olympics, it was for its limited deployment of TD-SCDMA...
(News) Japan's NTT DoCoMo has acquired an 11.5 percent stake in Blue Ocean Wireless, a cell phone network carrier that provides...
(News) The CTIA is working to unify cameraphone barcode-scanning technologies.
(News) Mobile-phone executives at CTIA say that high gas prices and the iPhone are influencing enterprise mobile-phone investment...
(News) Oracle is about to launch a high-profile campaign to solicit customer feedback.
(News) The demand for SAP skills has grown even more intense in recent months, an analyst firm said Thursday.
(News) RIM made a number of announcements of consumer services for BlackBerry devices, including partnerships with MySpace and Tivo...
(News) Two large tech trade and lobbying groups announce merger talks.
(News) NetSuite is trying to burnish its reputation for services and support with a new marketing push.
(News) Apple executives, including CEO Steve Jobs, settled a stock backdating lawsuit.
(News) Sony plans to acquire the portion of its optical disc joint venture with NEC that it doesn't already own and make the company...
(News) Let's say you want to load your MP3 collection onto your fancy smartphone using your favorite jukebox software -- and not some...
(News) The European Commission praised Google's decision to cut data retention times, but urged it and other search engines to go...
(News) LogMeIn showed off its remote mobile phone troubleshooting service at CTIA in San Francisco.
(News) A new service called Walkinghotspot, launched this week by TapRoot Systems, lets smartphone users turn their phones into...
(News) A new study finds two-thirds of companies don't have social software on the agenda yet.
(News) Experts at the CTIA conference say they anticipate a consolidation of mobile operating systems.
(News) Microsoft's 'page up' patent is more complicated than some commentators have made it, the company says.
(News) Yahoo introduced a new iPhone application and rolled out new capabilities in its Blueprint developer environment.
(News) Nvidia has been with a lawsuit alleging it made false and misleading statements to investors
(News) Opera to tweak its browser for Tegra's graphics capabilities
(News) Sony has capped off its Alpha range of cameras with a high-end model that features a full-frame sensor and 24.6-megapixel...
(News) A new series of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters from Neterion won't ship until the first quarter next year, later than planned.
(News) A think tank calls for a new kind of debate on U.S. broadband goals.
(News) IBM executives talked up the vendor's existing and upcoming business event processing software on Tuesday.
(News) Business Objects released the latest version of its metadata management product on Tuesday.
(News) More than 40 percent of large enterprises worldwide have cut IT spending, according to Forrester Research.
(News) Cisco introduced a system for remote workers to set up a home office just by plugging in a router, a PC and a phone.
(News) A chip industry watcher may revise down its chip equipment spending forecast for this year as a persistent memory chip glut...
(News) Intel has begun shipping solid-state drives for PCs, and plans to release server models soon.
(News) Google asserts a right to use content from users in the terms of use for several of its products.
(News) Some heavy users of Microsoft software say they're likely to go with the software giant's Hyper-V software for virtualization...
(News) Microsoft released an update to its on-demand CRM software on Monday.
(News) Google, which celebrates 10 years of its incorporation this month, remains strongly committed to its Enterprise unit and to...
(News) Nokia is offering a calendar and address-book synchronization service.
(News) Oracle has reportedly made significant progress on its long-awaited Fusion Applications.
(News) EPIC and Libertarian candidate Bob Barr say presidential candidates need to pay more attention to privacy issues.
(News) Most computer industry companies would feel satisfied with ruling the highly lucrative and technically complex search engine...
(News) The disk storage industry defied economic gloom in the second quarter with strong increases in both capacity sold and revenue...
(News) MySQL's cofounder Michael "Monty" Widenius is considering resigning, according to an official blog post.
(News) Samsung is eyeing a possible acquisition of memory chip-maker SanDisk.
(News) A stroll rounds the halls of last week's IFA electronics show in Berlin, or this week's CEDIA show in Denver or, well, just...
(News) The nine member consortium that holds most of the important patents covering DVD technology is cutting some of its license...
(News) Sun Microsystems will introduce a storage appliance based on its FISHworks software package by the end of this year.
(News) Yahoo hit a 52-week low as economic concerns battered the stock market Thursday.
(News) The FCC is conducting tests this week into potential interference from a new wireless service it is proposing.
(News) Open Text is planning to buy data capture vendor Captaris for $131 million.
(News) Comcast appeals an FCC order against its network management practices.
(News) A new global Business Objects user group is forming.
(News) Microsoft will issue four critical patches next Tuesday.
(News) Former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar has made more allegations against board members over a high-profile accounting scandal.
(News) Microsoft's AutoCollage 2008 uses facial recognition and blending technologies to create photo collages.
(News) Red Hat acquired an Israeli software company to expand its support for virtualization technologies.
(News) Sun has a new version of xVM VirtualBox, its platform for desktop virtualization, out, and is also starting to offer...
(News) MphasiS, an EDS subsidiary, sets up a new center in India, adding more staff
(News) Microsoft says a help site called pass4sure.com has been selling answers to its certification tests.
(News) Google Apps administrators are hopeful that Google will get Gmail performance problems under control.
(News) AMD announced a new server platform that includes a new chipset that will accommodate AMD's upcoming Shanghai chips.
(News) Anti-Georgia spammers are trying to set up a malicious network of botnet computers.
(News) Gmail is having availability problems for the third time in the past two weeks.
(News) The ISO and IEC have rejected appeals from four countries and given final approval to publish the OOXML spec.
(News) Samsung Thursday released three environmentally-friendly handsets, using both "green" materials for their exteriors and...
(News) IT managers in the US are falling in love with SSDs because they run so fast a single unit can replace multiple HDDs in...
(News) Microsoft will give developers their first in-depth look at Windows 7 at PDC and WinHEC, beginning in late October.
(News) Yahoo has picked two candidates from Carl Icahn's slate to fill two empty board seats.
(News) Despite inflation fears, the tech sector has looked upbeat as Amazon, Apple and Brocade reported strong earnings.
(News) My editor's unhappy with me because I just filed this column rather late. I'm guilty as charged -- I had a chance to watch...
(News) SAP said in a court filing that Waste Management is to blame for problems with its enterprise resource planning...
(News) The October 7, 2001, invasion of Afghanistan did more than mark the beginning of the "War on Terror." It also paved way for...
(News) A study claims that in-house software development is plagued by budget woes, protracted project lengths and dissatisfied end...
(News) Philips, an original investor in TSMC, sold off its final stake in the company on Thursday.
(News) After a lawsuit from Nintendo against retailers the R4 device for the Nintendo DS is still possible to find in Akihabara
(News) Experts say it probably doesn't matter whether the next U.S. president actually uses information technology.
(News) A California-based startup is giving business users a way to view and share Web-based versions of Office documents through its...
(News) Google has briefly replied to a petition from Android developers complaining about slow progress.
(News) Brocade rode a boom in networked storage to double-digit revenue growth and earnings that beat analysts' expectations in its...
(News) SAP users say they aren't ready to accept the vendor's recent decision to push all customers to enterprise support.
(News) Microsoft Research Asia has grown from a dozen people in 1998 to more than 350 a decade later.
(News) For official systems integrator Atos Origin, success at the Beijing games will be measured by anonymity, not popularity.
(News) Nvidia took a $196 million warranty charge to cover the cost of fixing bad graphics chips used in laptops.
(News) Sony will expand sales of its 11-inch OLED (organic light emitting diode) television to Europe in 2009, according to a...
(News) Organizations, lawmakers and companies continue to file comments with the FCC regarding a wireless spectrum auction proposal...
(News) India's revenue from R&D services is forecast by management consulting firm Zinnov to grow to US$21.4 billion by 2012
(News) Cloud computing, green IT and social-computing platforms will reach broad enterprise adoption in the next few years, Gartner...
(News) Tableau Software has revised its data-visualization tools with an emphasis on mapping.
(News) SCM vendor JDA Software is buying i2 Technologies for $346 million, the company announced Monday.
(News) India is forecast to earn revenue from software products of up to US$12 billion by 2015, helped by stronger interest from...
(News) Gartner warned of a "widespread slowdown" in electronics spending.
(News) Intel to release Nehalem laptop chips next year, the company confirmed on Sunday.
(News) A Boston area transit authority has sued to stop a defcon talk on hacking its Mifare transit cards.
(News) The U.S. ITC made an initial ruling that SiRF infringes six Broadcom patents.
(News) Hosting provider Rackspace Hosting unveiled an initial public offering (IPO) of 15 million at $12.50 per share.
(News) A bug in Google's Blogger is rendering some blog home pages unviewable.
(News) The Ohio secretary of state filed a lawsuit against an e-voting vendor for dropped votes.
(News) A patent pool formed to protect Linux is starting an effort to help foster defensive 'publication.'
(News) The WiMax Forum is setting up a certification lab in India following the local government's decision to auction spectrum for...
(News) The 2008 Olympic Games got underway on schedule at 8:08 p.m. local Beijing time, capping years of preparation and months of...
(News) For the first time the Olympics games is being produced entirely in high-definition.
(News) The LCD panel industry is suffering from over supply and falling demand, and in this case, what's bad for Wall Street and...
(News) Plans for an IPO for Indian state-owned telecommunications service provider, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., runs again into...
(News) Nintex is making commercially available software that helps companies track SharePoint usage in the organization.
(News) Nvidia may put Transmeta power-saving technology in products for mobile phones and laptops.
(News) The EFF has launched a new free consulting service for security researchers at Black Hat.
(News) The director of DHS' National Cybersecurity Center says the federal government will adopt DNSSEC, eventually.
(News) August will be a big month for Microsoft security patches, as the company plans to release 12 updates, seven of them critical...
(News) Sun has started an early access program for its xVM Server hypervisor.
(News) A Pennsylvania woman is sentenced on obscenity charges for running a Web site featuring sexual and violent stories.
(News) End-user performance monitoring company Knoa is working with HP and CA on a project that could let IT managers get a better...
(News) Cheaper mobile satellite services could be available in Europe by 2010 under a new European Union licensing scheme for...
(News) Elpida signed a deal to invest in a joint-venture DRAM plant in Suzhou, China
(News) Microsoft released its SQL Server 2008 database to manufacturing.
(News) VMware has joined the Linux Foundation, following the likes of Google and Oracle.
(News) IT department culture often differs from corporate culture, according to a new study.
(News) A proposal from India's telecom regulator to allow MVNOs is likely to introduce competition and bring down tariffs for...
(News) Israel's government has approved a bill calling for all residents to be issued biometric identity cards and passports
(News) Two Indian mobile network operators are expected to offer the iPhone 3G this month, but there are no 3G networks in India for...
(News) IBM's board of directors has appointed Taizo Nishimuro, former president and CEO of Toshiba, to serve on the board from later...
(News) Taiwan is moving towards a major revision of regulations regarding semiconductor investment in China and has signaled it will...
(News) Adobe says Flash is beginning to catch on more among enterprise customers.
(News) Dell said it wanted to expand entertainment options for users across all computing platforms, though it declined to confirm...
(News) The three largest broadband providers in the U.S. see slowed subscriber growth in the second quarter of 2008.
(News) Italian media conglomerate Mediaset Group has sued YouTube for copyright infringement for
€500 million (US$785 million).
(News) Sun is about to release a preview SDK for its long-anticipated JavaFX development framework.
(News) Nintendo and major Japanese software companies are going after 5 companies they say sold devices to play pirated DS games.
(News) Vonage named former Cingular Chief Marketing Officer Marc Lefar as its new CEO.
(News) With the Internet increasingly taking on the role of the PC operating system and the growing prevalence of virtualization...
(News) The resignations of Alcatel-Lucent's two top executives mark the final stage in a two-year-old merger that so far has failed...
(News) Microsoft is using 2,000 temperature and humidity sensors to better control data-center energy consumption at several of its...
(News) Microsoft has released an API that allows Web sites to send location information to GPS navigation devices as part of an...
(News) Some 70 percent of sensitive data on US government laptops and mobile devices was not encrypted as of last September, a new...
(News) Yahoo, HP and Intel are partnering for cloud computing research.
(News) Alcatel-Lucent's second-quarter revenue dropped 5.2 percent year on year, while its reported net loss doubled due to...
(News) Infineon is in talks to sell its 77.5 percent stake in DRAM maker Qimonda.
(News) The effects of tough price competition in the electronics and cell phone businesses hit Sony's profits during the April to...
(News) SAP reported an 18 percent sales increase, but its net profit fell due to charges related to its acquisition of Business...
(News) Alcatel-Lucent's CEO Patricia Russo plans to step down before the end of the year, and Chairman Serge Tchuruk will quit on...
(News) SMIC reported higher losses for the second quarter, and restated its first-quarter results with a much bigger loss.
(News) China Telecom will pay US$6.41 billion for China Unicom's CDMA business.
(News) Toshiba will end its direct-to-handset satellite broadcasting service in Japan in March after several years of losses caused...
(News) Mobile executives at a Silicon Valley roundtable discussion challenged Symbian, Android and other software platforms to match...
(News) Recent support and license price hikes could lead to more interest in license optimization services and software.
(News) Oracle has made additional allegations against SAP in its ongoing lawsuit against the company.
(News) Job description: A business continuity manager (BCM) creates plans to keep a company functioning after disruptive events such...
(News) Facebook is boosting its engineering team by hiring a high-ranking Mozilla official.
(News) The U.S. FCC is poised to take action against Comcast for slowign P-to-P traffic.
(News) Verizon posts revenue and net income growth, based on increases in mobile and data customers.
(News) Security vendor Sophos plans to acquire Utimaco, a German company specializing in software that aim to prevent sensitive data...
(News) Square Enix's latest Dragon Quest remake racked up huge sales during its first week on sale in Japan and easily topped the...
(News) The DRAM glut is causing companies to speed up technology development and sell chips with higher capacities.
(News) Apple CEO Steve Jobs has some health problems, but they're not life-threatening, the New York Times reports.
(News) In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing...
(News) Infineon is laying off 3,000 employees and reorganizing divisions in an effort to cut costs and return to profitability.
(News) San Francisco's district attorney has published passwords to the city's VPN software as part of its case against network...
(News) Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor Randy Rausch, known for his globally famous "Last Lecture," passed away Friday at...
(News) Microsoft on Friday expanded its support for the open-source community by donating cash to the Apache Software Foundation.
(News) India's mobile sector continues strong growth, adding 9 million new subscribers in June.
(News) A Tokyo-based start-up has taken the wraps off new software that brings to the desktop the world of augmented reality.
(News) Chartered Semiconductor expects to post a loss in the third quarter as falling average selling prices and high energy costs...
(News) When Samsung Electronics, a giant in chips, mobile phones and LCD panels, reported earnings on Friday, it noted worsening...
(News) Healthy sales of LCD (liquid crystal display) panels and a profitable cellular handset business helped Samsung Electronics...
(News) Google may use a user-driven rating system to help keep bad or harmful Android applications off mobile phones.
(News) Bill Gates is no longer working full time at Microsoft but some of his ideas, like tabletop computers and more natural user...
(News) Microsoft continues a shopping spree to bolster SQL Server by purchasing data-warehouse appliance vendor DATAllegro.
(News) The Consumer Electronics Association and several U.S. officials speak up for free trade at a rally.
(News) Steve Ballmer, speaking at the annual analysts meeting, defends Microsoft's plans to invest more in online services.
(News) Adaptec transfers its product development operation in India to HCL Technologies.
(News) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touched on the talks with Yahoo during the company's annual analyst meeting.
(News) An Oregon man is sentenced to four years in prison on criminal copyright and ID theft charges.
(News) Juniper Networks confirmed Thursday that Microsoft's Kevin Johnson will become its new CEO in September.
(News) India's Bharti Airtel posts strong revenue and profit growth, benefiting from a boom in India's mobile markets.
(News) Four of Japan's biggest comic book publishers are coming together to bring digital versions of their magazines to Nintendo's...
(News) The number of Chinese mobile phone subscribers topped 600 million in June.
(News) Nokia and Qualcomm have agreed to shelve all litigation between themselves after reaching a new licensing agreement that...
(News) Intel on Wednesday said it was developing new x86 chips to put in devices ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones...
(News) Hynix will close its only US chip factory, which was a life raft during its battles against US, EU and Japanese countervailing...
(News) A judge in Seattle did not hand down a sentence for Robert Soloway, known as the spam king, on Monday.
(News) Intel launched Centrino 2, the laptop platform that boosts laptop battery and delivers speedier performance, improved...
(News) A former UnitedHealthcare employee has been charged in connection with 163 identity theft cases at the University of...
(News) After a two-week search, Webroot founder Steven Thomas has been found dead in Hawaii.
(News) Microsoft said its proposal made Friday to purchase Yahoo's search business was actually the idea of Yahoo Chairman Roy...
(News) An early version of an open-source tool for checking the quality of open-source software is now available.
(News) Microsoft is purchasing Zoomix to add data-quality capability to its SQL Server database.
(News) XTuple has launched the latest edition of its ERP product, which employs a hybrid open-source model.
(News) The EU will cap SMS roaming charges despite arguments from mobile phone operators.
(News) Intel has set up an online marketplace for India where SMBs can procure software and services.
(News) Nokia quietly rolled out a new service on Ovi, its online services site, as it continues to face competition from better-known...
(News) AMD announced that it will take a charge of US$880 million related to ATI's former business units in the second fiscal quarter...
(News) Thales U.K. has reached an agreement to buy cryptographic security vendor nCipher for
£50.7 million (US$100.3 million).
(News) U.S. downturn may have hit Indian outsourcer Infosys, which reported lower growth in revenue and profits.
(News) Rambus on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Nvidia, alleging that the graphics chip vendor infringed on memory architecture...
(News) Yahoo has developed an artificial intelligence system called COKE that has boosted news story clickthroughs by about 25...
(News) Oracle plans to release 45 security patches next Tuesday.
(News) Researchers at Intel are hoping to use mobile devices to improve air quality in San Francisco, though it may take a while...
(News) Aviva sells its back-office services operation in India, preferring to outsource the delivery of these services to the buyer...
(News) Oracle is making a popular feature in its 11g database more widely available to older versions, it announced Thursday.
(News) Fuel-cell developer MTI Micro and a South Korean electronics company plan to jointly develop a fuel-cell powered ultra...
(News) The express train service from Central London to Heathrow Airport has installed a system to send electronic tickets to a...
(News) The leaders of the ISO and the IEC have recommended the rejection of appeals from four countries that protested OOXML...
(News) The U.S. Senate rejects attempts to remove telecom immunity from a surveillance bill.
(News) More voting discrepancies were found at French polling stations that used electronic systems than at those using traditional...
(News) Sun expanded its storage line with a series of arrays and a server-storage hybrid.
(News) India's revenue from software and services is expected to be slower this year, according to an industry body.
(News) MTN, Reliance Communications extend negotiations against the backdrop of a legal threat from an Indian rival.
(News) A team from Indonesia won the rural innovation award at Microsoft's Imagine cup with a focus on the environment.
(News) China arned Web sites and mobile content providers not to violate the state-owned broadcaster's rights to cover the Olympic...
(News) Samsung Electronics is mass producing solid-state drives with a 128G-byte capacity, and will begin production of a 256G-byte...
(News) A team at Adobe is building a new mashup toolkit for average business users.
(News) The Planet is rolling out a set of management services to accompany its hosted server offering.
(News) An irrigation automation system, developed by a team of Australian students, won Microsoft's Imagine Cup programming contest.
(News) VMware has replaced its high-profile CEO Diane Greene with a former EMC executive.
(News) The European Parliament appears ready to back measure that would overhaul E.U. telecom laws, although many of the original...
(News) Google has open-sourced its internal data exchange language, according to official blog posts.
(News) Microsoft's Imagine cup added a rural innovation award, and finalists made technologies for better farming, bus schedules and...
(News) A merger deal between MTN and Reliance Communications, both large communications companies, now seems unlikely.
(News) Panasonic plans to put TVs featuring 37-inch OLED screens on sale in the next three years, a Japanese newspaper reported on...
(News) In a plea agreement, Broadcom's cofounder admits that he lied to the SEC and agrees to pay $12 million.
(News) Managed Objects is adding social networking capabilities to make its configuration management database system more...
(News) The U.S. government needs to do more to encourage broadband rollout, a study says.
(News) Hyperic is launching CloudStatus, a free site containing performance metrics for Amazon Web Services.
(News) Microsoft teams with AT&T and Covisint to bolster its e-health strategy around its HealthVault patient-information...
(News) A group of Linux kernel developers issued a statement decrying closed-source drivers and modules on Monday.
(News) Sony is adding to its Bravia LCD TV range with a new 32-inch model that consumes 25 percent less power on average than...
(News) Microsoft's latest security update has detected and removed more online game password-logging software from 2 million PCs.
(News) The New York City Police Department calls on the U.S. FCC to give a piece of unauctioned spectrum to public-safety agencies.
(News) Though Bill Gates leaves his full-time duties at Microsoft on Friday, he remains nonexecutive chairman and will participate in...
(News) Some of the most oft-repeated comments attributed to Bill Gates through the years were not uttered by Bill Gates. Take for...
(News) Over his years at Microsoft, Bill Gates gave dozens upon dozens of speeches and in many of them he would offer his vision of...
(News) The departure of Microsoft's founder and iconic leader Bill Gates comes at a pivotal time in the company's history as it...
(News) The story "House approves surveillance bill, protects telecoms," posted to the wire Friday, has been changed on the wire to...
(News) Non-compete agreements have helped California's tech culture boom and hampered Massachusetts, a Harvard University panel said...
(News) Yahoo is planning a reorganization to improve communication among staff.
(News) Data center operators will gather in Silicon Valley next week for a summit that aims to tackle growing energy usage.
(News) M&A announcements show how strategic, and sometimes smaller, deals are still important for the sector.
(News) Arm is getting ready to challenge Intel by moving its mobile chip architecture into servers.
(News) Carrier backbone vendors working on 100G bps gear want to head off a repeat of the rocky development cycle for 40G.
(News) Oracle has raised prices on its core products by 15 percent to 20 percent.
(News) Activist investor Carl Icahn launched a blog on Thursday.
(News) A Microsoft official said Wednesday that ODF clearly benefited from the fight over the OOXML standard.
(News) The second of two technical rehearsals for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was declared a success Thursday.
(News) People who bought songs from Microsoft's now-defunct MSN Music service will get three more years to move the music to new PCs...
(News) Samsung and Siltronic opened a US$1 billion silicon wafer factory in Singapore.
(News) A Chinese government office denied it was investigating Microsoft for possible antitrust violations.
(News) Intel has tied up with Sugar Labs to develop a version of the Sugar, the UI originally developed for OLPC's XO laptop, for its...
(News) A California electrical contractor pleads guilty to E-Rate fraud.
(News) Red Hat is open-sourcing its Red Hat Network system management platform, according to the company's CEO.
(News) Red Hat boosts virtualization with an embeddable hypervisor and management console.
(News) The founders of Flickr are the latest high-profile officials to leave Yahoo.
(News) The Sprint-Clearwire WiMax service will launch commercially in Baltimore in September.
(News) Microsoft said it is unaware of an investigation into whether the company unfairly dominates China's software market as...
(News) China has reportedly launched an investigation into whether Microsoft unfairly dominates its software market, state media...
(News) India's Tata Communications will invest in Chinese networking company China Enterprise Communications.
(News) Chinese outsourcer Neusoft opened a software delivery center in the northeastern city of Dalian Wednesday
(News) Citrix is investing US$200 in a second development center in India that will hire up to 500 staff over five years.
(News) Carrier executives told the NXTcomm trade show their companies are helping to drive economic growth.
(News) Mozilla's big plan on Tuesday to set a world record for downloads with Firefox 3 hit a snag when its Web site would not work...
(News) JBoss became the second Red Hat software offering to become available on Amazon.com's EC2 infrastructure as a service.
(News) BMC has acquired ITM Software, maker of business-centric IT management software.
(News) One of the UK's largest insurance companies has scrapped a high-tech vehicle insurance plan that tracked drivers using GPS.
(News) Microsoft can't necessarily be banned from competing for government IT projects because of its antitrust problems, according...
(News) SAP is buying Visiprise, maker of plant-level software for manufacturers.
(News) BI vendors are looking beyond power users to the rank and file.
(News) Microsoft unveiled Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 for mobile navigation devices.
(News) Takara Tomy has developed what it claims is the world's smallest karaoke system, the 7-cm cube Hi-kara.
(News) Intel plans to transfer its solar energy technology and invest in a new solar venture.
(News) China Mobile inked a US$1 billion wireless deal with Alcatel-Lucent for 3G equipment.
(News) AMD is targeting Hollywood with the new Radeon 4800 series graphics chips, which can render lifelike images in real time.
(News) Citrix Systems' executive John Burns has been named CEO of Sourcefire, effective July 14.
(News) The U.S. International Trade Commission has rejected patent claims against Broadcom by GPS (Global Positioning System) vendor...
(News) The government has dropped child pornography charges against a state employee after determining that his laptop was badly...
(News) A judge rules that the U.S. White House does not have to turn over details about e-mails to a watchdog group.
(News) Microsoft and Nortel introduce a fully hosted unified-communications and collaboration service for carriers.
(News) Carriers will meet up with network vendors this week at NXTcomm to figure out how to meet the fast-growing demands of...
(News) Europe's telecommunications commissioner will soon announce plans to cut the cost of termination charges for mobile phone...
(News) Advanced Micro Devices previewed on Monday the latest version of its high-performance chip package, the FireStream 9250, which...
(News) A squabble between Ambani brothers may come in the way of merger between Reliance Communications and MTN.
(News) Microsoft is now a sponsor of the Open Source Census, an effort to track open-source installations worldwide.
(News) Environmental group Greenpeace says it has identified three containers of electronic waste as they were about to be unloaded in Hong Kong Port over the weekend.
(News) A key Xbox marketing leader is leaving Microsoft amid executive restructuring in the company's gaming business.
(News) Intel said it is working on video search technology that makes it easier for users to zero in on specific moments inside a...
(News) Higher-than-expected shipments of handset chips and more expensive phones led Qualcomm to raise its revenue and profit...
(News) Two new research papers outline how new mathematical models can more accurately predict how climate change could affect the...
(News) EU telecom Commissioner Viviane Reding proposes giving half of radio spectrum to mobile and wireless networks by 2010.
(News) EU telecommunication ministers unanimously reject a proposal to create a powerful central regulatory body, similar to the U.S...
(News) Mozilla has set Tuesday for release of the next version of Firefox and an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for software...
(News) NetSuite said Thursday it is going after SAP with a new manufacturing version of its hosted ERP system.
(News) European telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding on Thursday dismissed efforts by mobile phone operators to cut data roaming...
(News) The U.S. FTC settles a complaint with a company that offered free CDs containing software but included hidden charges.
(News) A U.S. hacker who hooked up a botnet within Newell Rubbermaid's corporate network was sentenced to 41 months in prison on...
(News) India's top outsourcers increase their share of the IT services market, taking a dominant position in application development...
(News) Ministers from G8 nations agreed to further study the issue of ID crimes at a meeting in Tokyo on Thursday.
(News) Japanese and French government ministers agreed at a meeting in Tokyo on Thursday to work more closely on cybercrime.
(News) Two Congressmen on Wednesday accused China of hacking their offices' computers, possibly compromising information on Chinese...
(News) Intel will make its USB 3.0 host controller specification freely available during the second half of this yeuar.
(News) Intel first rejected the idea of a low-power processor before chasing it with Atom.
(News) Barack Obama's campaign is looking for a Web security expert to help lock down Obama's official site.
(News) Microsoft described some improvements aimed at IT professionals that will come with the second beta of IE8 in August.
(News) The negative perception of Windows Vista caused a financial analyst firm to lower its revenue target for Microsoft.
(News) A new IBM study finds added momentum for SOA.
(News) Indian BPO company Genpact invests in training joint venture, as access to quality staff in India becomes a problem.
(News) In an effort to avert regulation by the EU, mobile phone operators said Wednesday that the market is expanding rapidly and...
(News) Intel is counting on a hit product to get demand rolling for mobile Internet devices based on Centrino Atom.
(News) Perimeter eSecurity on Tuesday acquired security vendor Edgeos for an undetermined amount to boost security in its products.
(News) Microsoft has hired the founder of anti-phishing Web site Castlecops.com to help with its efforts to clean up the Internet.
(News) Attack code that exploits the "Safari Carpet Bombing" attack has been posted.
(News) A leak on a Microsoft Web site hints at a 2009 release for the next version of Office, code-named Office 14.
(News) Oracle is previewing an upcoming "social CRM" modules at Enterprise 2.0 this week.
(News) Rural groups raise concerns about a potential advertising deal between Yahoo and Google.
(News) Microsoft has issued critical patches for IE, DirectX and Bluetooth.
(News) CIA officials said Tuesday the agency's Intellipedia project is gaining serious momentum but much work remains.
(News) Verizon will have to sell off parts of the Unicel mobile network in order to merger with the smaller company, the US DOJ said...
(News) Europe's competition commissioner Neelie Kroes delivered a thinly veiled warning to Microsoft on Tuesday.
(News) Microsoft will highlight virtualization during week two of TechEd.
(News) Microsoft previewed several upcoming role-playing games for its Xbox 360 in Tokyo on Tuesday.
(News) Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits in 14 U.S. states against resellers in which it alledges they engaged in the sale of pirated...
(News) VMware has announced an upgrade to its application virtualization software, which aims to reduce the cost of deploying new...
(News) Apple launched its updated iPhone to a raucous audience, adding support for 3G broadband wireless networks and built-in GPS...
(News) Leaders in the WiMax market launched a group aimed at making it easier for consumer electronics companies to license WiMax.
(News) Microsoft and health care insurance provider Kaiser Permanente unveiled Monday that they will be sharing data between their...
(News) A new study found that many IT shops fear they are not in compliance with their software license deals.
(News) A Marc Andreessen-funded startup is pushing financial management software for IT.
(News) A flood of large and small vendors are pushing new products at this week's Enterprise 2.0 show.
(News) As this year's Enterprise 2.0 show begins, the space is showing both momentum and confusion.
(News) HP and Acer signed a confidential agreement ending all patent disputes between them.
(News) At least five people were killed and 12 injured in an attack on shoppers in Tokyo'a Akihabara on Sunday, local media said.
(News) The FCC does not plan to discuss at a meeting next week a proposal that would require the winner of a spectrum auction to...
(News) Verizon reached a deal to buy Alltel for US$28.1 billion, which would make the combined company the largest wireless carrier...
(News) HP is forging ahead with a revamp of its research labs that it hopes will pull cutting-edge developments from its labs and...
(News) A Bay Area federal judge says that geeks sometimes make bad jurors in tech cases.
(News) Disk-based storage revenue grew during the first quarter of 2008, with companies like Dell cashing in on the increased demand...
(News) No Nvidia chipset for Via processors was launched at Computex, but the partnership between the two companies is just getting...
(News) The Department of Homeland Security has named Mischel Kwon as head of US-CERT.
(News) The CTIA cellular trade association criticized an FCC spectrum auction plan in a filing with the agency on Thursday.
(News) Hewlett-Packard disagrees with a jury that ordered it to pay $184 million to Cornell University for infringing a patent.
(News) Grandmax is showing its Tweakers, nifty portable speakers for iPods and other music players.
(News) Tanla, an Indian provider of mobile products and services, has acquired Openbit, a Finnish provider of mobile payments...
(News) Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock rejected charges by Carl Icahn that an employee retention package was designed to discourage a...
(News) Researchers at Carnegie Mellon say state data breach laws have not cut down on identity theft.
(News) The Korea Fair Trade Commission has fined Intel a reported $25.42 million for antitrust violations.
(News) A San Diego court ruled mostly in Microsoft's favor in an ongoing dispute between the software giant and Alcatel-Lucent.
(News) Venkat Pullaiah, a local university graduate, migrated in search of a job to Hyderabad, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh...
(News) Microsoft plans to add architecture modeling and validation against application code to its Visual Studio Team System.
(News) Microsoft spending another $20 million on education in India.
(News) Yahoo is opening up the API for its Address Book service, its second major step in its Open Strategy initiative.
(News) IT spending trends for the rest of the year remain murky, according to new research.
(News) AMD and Fujitsu Siemens are developing an external graphics module that can be used with Puma notebooks.
(News) Music industry groups lashed out at Baidu Tuesday, with one official calling it, "the largest and most incorrigible purveyor...
(News) Yahoo will hold its annual shareholder meeting on Aug. 1, according to a Tuesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
(News) Taiwan's High Tech Computer launched its latest Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone, the Touch Pro, on Wednesday and I got a chance...
(News) Intel has embraced overclockers, but won't guarantee its chips if something goes wrong on an overclocked system.
(News) Intel showed off an overclocked Nehalem system equipped with two solid-state disk drives.
(News) Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will uncage its Puma laptop chip platform at events in Taipei and Paris on Wednesday.
(News) Contact-list provider Jigsaw is now providing company data for free to a number of CRM systems.
(News) Japanese broadcaster NHK has developed a high-tech studio where robotic cameras move automatically to always get the best...
(News) Google announced enhancements to its OpenSocial platform and Gears offline access technology.
(News) Mozilla is aiming to create what may be the geekiest world record ever with its upcoming Firefox 3 browser release.
(News) A judge orders a Florida business to stop pretexting to obtain phone records.
(News) A bug originally reported by Symantec to be a new, unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player was actually patched last...
(News) Microsoft's Ray Ozzie suggested that Microsoft has some clear ideas on the next direction it will take for search, downplaying...
(News) VMware plans to buy an application performance vendor, in what one observer calls a game-changing move.
(News) The U.S. government files a tech-related trade complaint against the EU.
(News) Sony has developed an all-glass speaker that emits sound in a circle and carries a cool price tag of almost US$10,000.
(News) The European Commission has not yet decided whether to prosecute Intel for abuse of its dominant position in the...
(News) Google's I/O conference this week is the company's most important to date for external developers.
(News) Four electronics companies settle a patent complaint by a Columbia University professor.
(News) Symantec says that hackers are exploiting an unpatched flaw in Adobe's Flash Player software.
(News) The U.S. DOJ settles an antitrust complaint against the National Association of Realtors.
(News) Microsoft faces an uphill battle in trying to convince the market that its efforts at openness are sincere.
(News) Paglo's search engine for IT went into public beta on Tuesday.
(News) GameStop is no longer going to sell Microsoft's Zune digital media players in its retail stores.
(News) RightNow CRM's latest release, announced Tuesday, adds the ability to send customers a survey direct from a chat.
(News) The European Commission is urging rapid adoption of IPv6 to keep Europe at the vanguard of Internet use.
(News) Yahoo is suing a group of unidentified companies and individuals loosely called the 'Yahoo Lottery Spammers' for running an...
(News) Infineon's president and CEO, Wolfgang Ziebart, will resign June 1 over differences of strategy.
(News) Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin will step down as head of the mobile operator.
(News) IBM has set up a center for language translation services in India.
(News) India's Reliance has acquired U.K. managed network services provider Vanco for US$77 million.
(News) Bharti bows out of merger talks with MTN, even as another Indian company, Reliance Communications appears interested.
(News) Nvidia is planning to announce a line of Arm-based CPUs at the Computex exhibition in Taipei next week.
(News) China has unveiled plans to restructure the country's telecommunications operators, a final step towards the release of 3G...
(News) Ken Hubbard worries that broadband speeds in the U.S. aren't adequate for the next wave of Web content.
(News) Connected Nation claims significant success in connecting broadband providers to needy users.
(News) Groups calling for a more robust broadband policy in the U.S. say the county has fallen behind in several key statistics.
(News) A New York man is convicted for his part in an online music piracy group.
(News) Microsoft's plan to include ODF support in its Office suite next year reflects continued challenges for the OOXML file format...
(News) IBM will repay $13 million to Massachusetts due to a software procurement deal state officials concluded was flawed.
(News) It felt like all Microsoft, all the time this week. CEO Steve Ballmer was attacked by an egg-throwing Hungarian, the company...
(News) It's not often you read a book and find that, 10 years on, it remains central to your thinking. Ideas come and go, paradigms...
(News) Mobile Web surfers in the U.S. spend more time on classifed-ad site Craigslist than on any other Web site.
(News) Solid earnings from Salesforce.com and Hewlett-Packard helped investor confidence in the tech arena this week.
(News) HP wants printer buyers to pay more attention to the environmental impact of its printers, and is introducing a new labeling...
(News) Business service management vendor Firescope is launching a low-cost product for SMBs.
(News) Google's Larry Page calls for the U.S. government to share its wireless spectrum.
(News) Chinese police have detained a 21-year-old woman in Shenyang for an online video
(News) A Singaporean blogger has been arrested for allegedly making racist comments online.
(News) Lawmakers and an auditor's report raise concerns about cybersecurity among U.S. electric utilities.
(News) Time Warner will gain $9.25 billion from the spin-off of Time Warner Cable.
(News) The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate a semiconductor trade complaint from Tessera.
(News) An exhibition of technology being used in the Beijing Olympics opened here Wednesday, with mixed results in demonstrating one...
(News) Customers and partners of open-source CRM (customer relationship management) vendor SugarCRM will be able to deploy and manage...
(News) Japanese TV viewers could soon find something extra alongside the high-definition television channels on their sets' menus: a...
(News) Hoping to stay a step ahead of rival VMware, Citrix Systems is now shipping its XenDesktop product line of desktop...
(News) A 31 percent jump in laptop PC sales helped drive Hewlett-Packard's strong quarterly results on Tuesday, although there were...
(News) Microsoft on Tuesday began letting advertisers display banner ads to mobile users of Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live...
(News) The unlikely story of advanced 3G cellular service in the world's most tightly controlled and secretive country has turned...
(News) Games consoles contain toxic chemicals that would not be allowed in young childrens' toys, even though the technology to...
(News) Bangalore, India's outsourcing hub, has been grappling with poor roads, traffic jams, and power cuts. From Friday, the city's...
(News) Taiwanese display maker AU Optronics will show what it calls the world's first curved TFT (thin film transistor) LCD (liquid...
(News) An online retailer in the U.K. is taking preorders for a motherboard equipped with the upcoming Diamondville version of...
(News) Startup Aster Data Systems is coming to market with what it calls an "Internet-scale" cluster database, and has landed a major...
(News) Virtualization has moved beyond applications themselves to software that makes those applications run faster over a network.
(News) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday filed a lawsuit against four former AOL Time Warner executives, charging...
(News) A digital advocacy group has blasted the federal government's prosecution of a Missouri woman whose fake MySpace profile...
(News) On-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Workday announced an update to its software Monday as it rides a wave of...
(News) Customers using Microsoft's SharePoint enterprise portal can now get deployment help if they subscribe to the Software...
(News) A startup company called Powerset gained a slew of headlines last week when it launched a beta version of its search engine...
(News) China began three days of national mourning for the victims of the May 12 earthquake, restricting access to entertainment...
(News) Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Electronic Data Systems won't hurt Dell in the next few years, but it could affect Dell's...
(News) In its continued attempt to convince business customers to adopt Vista, Microsoft has outlined and tried to explain some of...
(News) Former One Laptop Per Child President of software and content Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will...
(News) After hurting the environment by drinking coffee from plastic cups for many years, buying an eco-friendly laptop bag seems...
(News) The former chairman and CEO of PurchasePro.com, a business-to-business software broker that died during the dot-com bust, has...
(News) A new train simulator codeveloped by Fujitsu offers unparalleled realism thanks to high-definition video shot on actual train...
(News) Samsung Electronics will unveil this weekend the first prototype of a new LCD (liquid crystal display) technology that won't...
(News) With all the time spent on the road, most drivers consider their cars to be their second homes. Reaching their primary home...
(News) Sony has promoted a senior executive at its U.S. games studio to lead its global studios, it said Friday.
(News) Fujitsu has developed a prototype electronic paper screen that tackles one of the technology's biggest weaknesses: the amount...
(News) Merger and acquisition news this week from Hewlett-Packard, EDS, Comcast, Plaxo, CBS and CNET -- along with Carl Icahn's...
(News) The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to investigate complaints by two U.S. companies that 18 other...
(News) One week after hiding Internet Explorer attack code on his Web site, security researcher Aviv Raff has posted details on how...
(News) Microsoft is looking at alternatives to ultra-low-cost laptops in the drive to arm people in developing nations with a way to...
(News) A 23-year-old Oregon man has pleaded guilty to charges that he used identity theft to set up bogus accounts on eBay, where he...
(News) It's been a busy week for organizations like Telecoms Sans Frontiers (TSF). With two natural disasters in quick succession --...
(News) IBM has released software that allows BlackBerry users to access more of its applications, including its Cognos business...
(News) NATO plans to set up a cyber defense center in Estonia later this year to research and help fight cyber warfare, the...
(News) The city of Philadelphia is moving on after its brief municipal Wi-Fi relationship with EarthLink, no longer trying to find a...
(News) Billionaire investor Carl Icahn will proceed with his plan to replace Yahoo's entire board in an effort to force the company...
(News) Virgin Mobile USA is in talks with SK Telecom over a possible deal involving Helio, the U.S. mobile operator that gears itself...
(News) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two current and two former officers of semiconductor vendor Broadcom...
(News) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken a first step toward re-auctioning a band of spectrum that failed to sell...
(News) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a major step toward requiring publicly traded companies to submit their...
(News) In an announcement overshadowed by Hewlett-Packard's US$13.9 billion bid for services provider EDS, Oracle on Tuesday...
(News) Sony earned sharply higher net profits in the financial year just ended on the back of stronger sales, but missed an...
(News) EarthLink next month will shut down its Philadelphia Wi-Fi network, the flagship of its now-dashed municipal wireless...
(News) Customers of Hewlett-Packard and Electronic Data Systems offered a range of reactions Tuesday to HP's US$13.9 billion bid for...
(News) Microsoft on Tuesday revealed pricing details for a new server software bundle aimed at midsize companies and the next version...
(News) Computer Sciences (CSC) has agreed to pay US $1.37 million to settle allegations that it received kickbacks on technology...
(News) The European Commission confirmed it has received a complaint about Microsoft's business practices from a British government...
(News) One in four respondents to a new US corporate IT spending survey by ChangeWave Research said their company will spend less on...
(News) Engineers testing a recently launched Japanese data communications satellite have succeeded in establishing a two-way Internet...
(News) HP said Tuesday morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer EDS for US$13.9 billion, or $25.00 per share.
(News) Advanced Micro Devices announced a series of executive changes Monday, including the creation of a Central Engineering...
(News) Intel's test and assembly plant in Chengdu remained offline on Tuesday, as the region in southwestern China reeled from the...
(News) While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the company's nascent rich Internet application (RIA) development product family...
(News) It may not have been the greatest hack ever, but police say the malicious software sneaked onto restaurant chain Dave &...
(News) Cisco Systems will take its TelePresence virtual meeting systems into home offices later this year, bringing telecommuters...
(News) Hewlett-Packard is close to acquiring IT services company Electronic Data Systems for around $13 billion, according to a...
(News) A software glitch that crept into a massive system integration project at Japan's Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ left thousands...
(News) Taiwanese hardware maker Micro-Star International's upcoming Wind laptop can be preordered starting from US$560.
(News) Database maker Vertica Systems is moving its technology to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure (EC2), hoping to...
(News) Municipal broadband networks could help boost the availability of high-speed Internet access and even help to ensure Net...
(News) Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer of Microsoft, commissioned the Difference Engine No. 2 that is set to debut...
(News) News from and about Microsoft dominated this week from start to finish. But the dire situation caused by Cyclone Nargis in...
(News) Recent comments from Advanced Micro Devices about controlling manufacturing costs have led to speculation that the company may...
(News) After months of resistance, retailer Circuit City opened up its books for Blockbuster to complete the process of due diligence...
(News) Toshiba plans to begin mass production of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells by March next year and to have a television based on the...
(News) In the not-too-distant future, people could use computer printers to make simple medicines as part of a do-it-yourself model...
(News) The growing disaster in Myanmar caused by Cyclone Nargis could have been at least party avoided had people living in the path...
(News) Shipments of the Gran Turismo series of car racing games edged past the 50 million unit mark at the end of April, Sony said...
(News) Samsung has launched a high-definition (HD) video camera that can also snap high-resolution digital photos and take smooth...
(News) Google's shareholders, following the advice of the board, voted down two proposals on Thursday that would have compelled the...
(News) After a slow climb during the height of a generally positive earnings season, the IT-heavy Nasdaq hit turbulence this week...
(News) Microsoft has invested several million more dollars into an incentive program it recently unveiled for small businesses...
(News) Two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would subject broadband providers to antitrust...
(News) The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would allow law enforcement authorities to seek the forfeiture...
(News) Teenagers in the U.S. are having a more difficult time buying M-rated mature video games in stores than in past years...
(News) U.S. retailer Best Buy is buying a 50 percent stake in an established European retailer to expand its worldwide consumer...
(News) SAP co-CEO Henning Kagermann took center stage at this week's SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando, but that may not be the case...
(News) Fox Interactive Media (FIM), MySpace's News Corp. unit, will fail to meet its revenue projections for this fiscal year...
(News) A U.S. judge has ruled on a nearly US$111 million copyright-infringement decision against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent...
(News) China's 3G (third generation telephony) system will expand service to 10 cities after August's Olympic Games, the nation's...
(News) Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency has proposed adding a fee to the price of Apple iPods and other digital music and video...
(News) Advanced Micro Devices must work hard to rebuild its momentum in the Asian server market, even though the chip maker managed...
(News) Microsoft's TerraServer-USA satellite imagery project has been slapped with a trademark lawsuit from a small North Carolina...
(News) Just when it seemed that their stormy relationship had ended, Yahoo and Microsoft may end up reconciling and coming to terms...
(News) The WiMax joint venture between Sprint and Clearwire could be good news for end-users, who might soon be able to choose from a...
(News) Advanced Micro Devices plans to release processors with 12 cores, which changes its product road map and kills earlier plans...
(News) It is unlikely that SAP will offer full-blown, on-demand versions of its Business One or All-in-One enterprise resource...
(News) Microsoft continues to eat its own dog food to promote the adoption of its Silverlight technology.
(News) Microsoft Tuesday released the third service pack for Windows XP to the Web after last week delaying its scheduled release...
(News) A virtual uprising that broke out among developers questioning One Laptop Per Child's commitment to open-source software has...
(News) To help IT departments prepare for the coming onslaught of data, HP on Tuesday introduced a platform that combines storage and...
(News) Executives from IBM and SAP said the two companies won't fall out even though they now compete head-on in the market for BI...
(News) SAP is developing new business process management (BPM) tools under the code name "Galaxy" and will first release them in the...
(News) Google has reinstated an open-source project just days after pulling it in response to a copyright-related takedown notice.
(News) The European economy would grow by an additional
€95 billion over the next 20 years if one quarter of the UHF band were...
(News) Welcome to Beijing.
(News) Microsoft broke ground Tuesday for a new research and development center in Beijing that will house the company's growing...
(News) Advanced Micro Devices needs to more than double its share of the microprocessor market to survive, according to a brief filed...
(News) Two public pension funds from the city of Detroit plan to expand a complaint against Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and other members of...
(News) The next big step in chip manufacturing will be the industry's move from 300mm wafers to 450mm wafers, which should help chip...
(News) Chip makers Intel, Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. announced Monday that they will collaborate...
(News) Microsoft should consider putting its search-advertising endeavors on the back burner for now and attempt an end run at Google...
(News) Qwest Communications International will resell Verizon Wireless mobile service, ending a five-year deal with Sprint Nextel.
(News) Sprint Nextel is looking at selling or spinning off its Nextel unit, after acquiring it less than three years ago, according...
(News) T-Mobile launched its first 3G (third-generation) network, in New York, but customers can't yet use the fastest speeds that...
(News) T-Mobile launched its first 3G (third-generation) network, in New York, but customers can't yet use the fastest speeds that...
(News) Roughly 75 percent of SAP's overall customer base is made up of small and midsize enterprises, the software vendor announced...
(News) Google has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to obtain a pledge from Verizon Wireless that it will honor the...
(News) Dell on Friday said it has stopped shipment of two Vostro laptop models in Europe after discovering a faulty keyboard design...
(News) The One Laptop Per Child Project appointed a new president and chief operating officer on Friday to run daily operations at...
(News) We've been waiting all week for the other shoe on Microsoft's hostile takeover attempt to drop on Yahoo, which isn't waiting...
(News) Nortel Networks reported growing revenue for the first quarter of this year and said its recovery plan is on track, even as it...
(News) SAP and Research in Motion have teamed up to bring SAP's back-end business applications, beginning with CRM, to BlackBerry...
(News) A U.S. provider of outsourcing and IT services has agreed to pay civil penalties of US$45,000 to settle allegations that it...
(News) Intel has set up an online store called Business Exchange that's meant to help small and medium-sized business find software...
(News) IBM is trying to rally support for an online applications marketplace for small and mid-sized businesses that it plans to...
(News) A company that develops cameras that produce 360-degree videos is suing Microsoft for alleged patent infringement in its...
(News) Laptop users may soon get longer battery life from their machines, with ZPower set to plug in its new silver-zinc batteries...
(News) With its US$1 billion acquisition of MySQL now behind it, Sun reported financial results on Thursday that show the company is...
(News) Positive earnings news this week from vendors including Symantec, Adobe and Comcast, along with macroeconomic news, continued...
(News) Microsoft Thursday unveiled a version of its toolset for Web and multimedia designers that includes the first native support...
(News) The MozyHome online backup service became generally available on Thursday after a long beta test and the acquisition of its...
(News) If implementing business intelligence is more of an art than a science, IBM's Cognos division has a vivid palette at its...
(News) A complicated mix of factors, including population density and the cost of broadband, contribute to U.S. residents lagging...
(News) Infogrames Entertainment plans to buy the rest of beleaguered video games pioneer Atari for US$11 million, the companies said...
(News) Adobe launched a new community development project on Thursday aimed at using its Flash and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime)...
(News) Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have developed a working unit of a memory circuit that has existed in theory for 37 years...
(News) Take note, Microsoft: There may be better ways to diversify your business than by wooing Web 2.0 companies such as Yahoo.
(News) SugarCRM is bridging the distance between mobile phones and PCs with a new version of its Web-based customer relationship...
(News) James Treacy, former chief operating officer and president of online job board Monster Worldwide, has been charged with...
(News) With more than half of its revenue now coming from outside the U.S., Symantec ended its fiscal year on a high note on...
(News) Many discarded electronic devices in the U.S. wind up being dismantled overseas using crude and unsafe methods, partly because...
(News) Enterprise search vendor Dieselpoint is behind a new open-source project centering on a document "pipeline" -- or as the...
(News) AOL saw only a slight gain in its online advertising business for the first quarter of 2008, suggesting the company has a way...
(News) Clarizen, like other small vendors in the on-demand project-management software space, is trying to lure Microsoft Project...
(News) Rather than just let tourists wander aimlessly on a sightseeing excursion, hoping to stumble upon the next landmark, one city...
(News) Time Warner plans sell its stake in its cable division, the company said Wednesday during its quarterly earnings call.
(News) SpringSource, maker of the Spring Framework for Java development, will announce a new application server on Wednesday that it...
(News) Sony Ericsson is hoping to promote "wow" mobile-phone applications by enabling developers to combine the best of Java and...
(News) SAP is putting the brakes on the roll-out of Business ByDesign, its offering for small businesses, it said Wednesday, as it...
(News) LG Electronics has officially thrown its hat into the thin TV ring with the launch this week of its Scarlet TV set. The TV...
(News) 3Com, the U.S. networking vendor now looking to operations in China for a competitive edge, has named a new CEO who will be...
(News) Public safety agencies should use existing mobile infrastructure for their communications instead of waiting for the U.S. to...
(News) IBM has scooped up Infodyne, a privately held maker of software that quickly crunches hundreds of market data sources together...
(News) Microsoft has delayed the release of a third service pack for Windows XP, blaming a "compatibility issue" between the software...
(News) The Internet telephony startup Ribbit announced Tuesday that one of its initial flagship projects -- an integration with...
(News) Microsoft has released beta technologies that allow its network-management software to manage non-Windows environments as part...
(News) Oracle has finalized its US$8.5 billion deal to buy BEA Systems following the European Commission's approval, it announced...
(News) A shortage of batteries and other components could hurt smaller PC vendors, although the top 10 vendors are unlikely to be...
(News) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) said exchange rates depressed first quarter revenue and earnings, exaggerating a...
(News) Xerox's research arm Monday showcased its latest innovations, including erasable paper and tools that make documents "smart"...
(News) The deadline Microsoft gave Yahoo for making a deal or facing a proxy fight came and went this weekend without a word from...
(News) Ironically, Lee Loree loses sleep over his invention, the Sleeptracker.
(News) Verizon Communications posted net income of US$4.3 billion in the first quarter of 2008, up 14.1 percent from a year earlier...
(News) Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system took another step forward on Sunday with the launch of a second experimental...
(News) Lease payments sought by public-safety agencies on an adjoining block of spectrum were not the only factor in the failure of a...
(News) Microsoft has completed its US$1.2 billion purchase of FAST Search & Transfer and will install the company's CEO as head...
(News) The former owner of three Kansas computer services vendors and his mother have been indicted on charges related to defrauding...
(News) Those nasty JavaScript attacks that besieged thousands of Web sites from January until March started back up again this week...
(News) Sony and Samsung are reaffirming their alliance in LCD (liquid crystal display) panel manufacturing with plans to jointly...
(News) Samsung Electronics posted its strongest profit gain in years in the first quarter as sales of LCD screens and mobile phones...
(News) Sun Microsystems acquired microprocessor startup Montalvo Systems for an undisclosed sum, the company confirmed Thursday.
(News) Microsoft reiterated Thursday that it is prepared to withdraw its offer to buy Yahoo and said it believes it has the...
(News) Security researcher David Litchfield has released technical details of a new type of attack that could give a hacker access to...
(News) Dell's facilities in Canada are being hit by the company's efforts to save US$3 billion over the next three years, with...
(News) Though Microsoft results were mixed, quarterly financial reports over the past few days from a broad range of vendors...
(News) The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers...
(News) Fennec, the mobile version of the Firefox browser, will simplify and enhance Web browsing on cell phones and usher in an era...
(News) Residential and small-business customers of Qwest Communications International in 23 U.S. cities will soon have access to...
(News) An assortment of vendors are releasing enterprise mashup development tools during this week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco...
(News) There is an urgent need for African governments to practice e-government, since technology will help bring about a much-needed...
(News) The French government will "suspend" the use of new software for recording the personal habits and affiliations of its...
(News) Former co-owners of DeltaNet, a New Jersey computer service provider, have agreed to plead guilty to charges related to...
(News) Three Beijing courts handed down fines to 10 Internet cafes in a handful of intellectual property rights cases Wednesday...
(News) Microsoft gave its first hint that it may abandon its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, as it approaches the deadline for a...
(News) U.S. chip designer LSI Corp. has opened two new offices in Taiwan, investments the company had put off until a new president...
(News) Beyond commercial success, developers of social applications must aspire to trigger significant change via their software and...
(News) Big vendors like Oracle, IBM and Microsoft are all over the show floor at the Web 2.0 Expo this week, testimony that new...
(News) Google joined a handful of other companies by announcing that it is delivering mobile banner ads.
(News) Windows Vista customers can now receive the first service pack for the operating system via the Microsoft Automatic Update...
(News) Open-source developers should stop bickering, unite and jointly develop a Windows user interface to make XO laptops more...
(News) Apple on Wednesday reported strong earnings for the second quarter of 2008, with Macintosh computer sales overriding weak...
(News) Some VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and mobile phone service providers are riding free when connecting to the traditional...
(News) The worldwide market for CRM (customer relationship management) software will grow 14.2 percent to US$8.9 billion in 2008...
(News) BT Group says it has made adding guest Wi-Fi at a business location quick and easy.
(News) IBM has designed a new type of rack-mount server specifically for companies running heavily trafficked "Web 2.0" sites such as...
(News) D. Mark Hornung is attending this week's Web 2.0 Expo because he doesn't want to get hit by a tsunami.
(News) Acer revised up its 2008 PC shipment target after posting strong results in the first quarter of the year.
(News) A corporate governance lawsuit against Craigslist by eBay seems "unethical" and is unfounded, Craigslist said late Tuesday.
(News) The European Parliament gave its assent to the creation of the Galileo satellite navigation system Wednesday, clearing the way...
(News) Is it just me, or are we seeing increasing numbers of books about Africa, African development, Africa's lack of development...
(News) On a day when companies are promoting their green efforts as part of Earth Day, a nonprofit has accused some organizations of...
(News) Yahoo grew its revenue and net income and exceeded Wall Street's expectations for both categories during its first quarter of...
(News) EBay has filed a lawsuit alleging that some changes made by Craigslist's board of directors have diluted eBay's investment in...
(News) Seagate announced Tuesday that it has shipped 1 billion hard drives since pioneering an industry that shows no signs of...
(News) Microsoft is targeting system management as a way to differentiate itself from competitors in the virtualization market, the...
(News) Microsoft will soon detail ways that partner companies will be able to deliver their services based on Microsoft's hosted...
(News) Microsoft is rewriting many of its applications to offer them in a hosted fashion, an executive said on Tuesday.
(News) The video gaming industry must do more to protect minors from unsuitable material and cooperate better with national...
(News) Comcast's slowing of peer-to-peer traffic appeared to be more widespread than the company has disclosed, the chairman of the...
(News) BT said Tuesday it will sell enterprise software products from NetSuite and SugarCRM to its small and medium-sized business...
(News) The curved red and silver shaft of the 2008 Olympic torch, called "Cloud of Promise," was designed by Lenovo Group to...
(News) AT&T reported net income of US$3.5 billion for the first quarter of 2008, up from $2.8 billion in the first quarter of...
(News) Microsoft will announce Tuesday that Dynamics CRM Online, the Microsoft-hosted version of Dynamics 4.0, is generally available...
(News) Asustek Computer plans to share its experience with open-source software in its popular Eee PC low-cost laptop at the...
(News) The delayed PlayStation Home community online service for the PlayStation 3 console is to be delayed again, Sony Computer...
(News) Hewlett-Packard said its new online storage service will protect your data "whether your hardware fails, your computer is lost...
(News) African governments must commit to transparency to eliminate barriers that hamper entrepreneurship and business and economic...
(News) Microsoft has formed a partnership with the government of Angola and plans closer collaboration with the European Union to...
(News) India's largest outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), reported Monday that revenue and profit increased more slowly for...
(News) An update for Microsoft's antipiracy tool for its Office software suite hit a snag last week when it was distributed too...
(News) Micron Technology, one of the world's largest DRAM (dynamic RAM) chip makers, and Taiwan's Nanya Technology on Monday signed...
(News) Intel plans to spend as much as US$500 million in Taiwan over the next five years on procurement and investing activities, the...
(News) Asustek plans to launch a new version of the Eee PC armed with Intel's Atom microprocessor at the Computex trade show in...
(News) Can't decide between a BlackBerry and Windows Mobile? In the future you might be able to buy a phone with both operating...
(News) Vietnam launched its first satellite over the weekend to provide telecommunications, broadcasting and Internet links across...
(News) Sony has managed to make an OLED (organic light emitting diode) screen that's just one-fifth of a millimeter thick. The...
(News) Microsoft has moved its Unlimited Potential Group (UPG) to Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie's organization and...
(News) Intel on Tuesday reported that its first-quarter net income fell 12 percent year-over-year, although revenue was in line with...
(News) Recent reports that an advisor to public safety agencies was seeking to make a profit on the recently completed 700MHz auction...
(News) Using computers for checking e-mail, drawing images and playing games seem like common tasks for most people. For the severely...
(News) Three lawmakers complained Tuesday that Google "maneuvered" its way into an open wireless network without having to come up...
(News) Microsoft hinted that it might keep the software and hosted architecture built by Danger, the mobile company that designed the...
(News) Sun Microsystems pushed out a "near final" version of MySQL 5.1 on Tuesday, but is holding back the production release of the...
(News) European Parliament members are asking if Microsoft's antitrust violations make the company ineligible to compete for...
(News) Seagate Technology filed a potentially far-reaching patent infringement lawsuit against STEC on Monday, over flash...
(News) AOL acquired contextual search company Sphere, the ISP (Internet service provider) and portal company said Tuesday.
(News) Infosys Technologies said Tuesday that it expected its revenue to grow by 19 to 21 percent to US$5 billion in its current...
(News) IBM demonstrated technology Monday that improves performance and reduces power consumption on chips used in devices from...
(News) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission needs to prohibit mobile phone carriers from blocking text messages from...
(News) It's well-known that mobile phones are revolutionizing communications across the globe, particularly in developing countries...
(News) Microsoft plans to launch its Live Mesh offering next week at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco but so far is not revealing...
(News) Oracle on Monday announced a pair of products aimed at securely archiving enterprise content and e-mail.
(News) Blockbuster has offered to buy Circuit City Stores for as much as US$1.33 billion in a deal aimed at taking advantage of the...
(News) Salesforce has integrated Google's online productivity applications with its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management)...
(News) MySQL developers should be able to get their hands on a major update to the open-source database next week when Sun...
(News) Yahoo is weighing its options to accept a buyout by Microsoft or consider tie-ups with other companies, in particular a...
(News) Windows is in danger of "collapsing" under the weight of all its code and needs a serious overhaul, according to Gartner...
(News) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has handed out more than US$6.6 million in fines to 11 retailers and television...
(News) Advanced Micro Devices Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester has resigned to search for new...
(News) Microsoft has proposed a tiered approach to protecting the privacy of people targeted by online advertising, saying...
(News) Microsoft will work with Indian IT company HCL Infosystems to develop system integration frameworks for the deployment of...
(News) Details of the first few processors belonging to Intel's latest Centrino 2 mobile platform have been leaked on a PC maker's...
(News) Oracle will release patches for a slew of products next week, including fixes for two nasty vulnerabilities for its database...
(News) IBM is developing a type of memory that it says could one day be faster and more reliable than today's hard drives and flash...
(News) This year, the U.S. will pick a new president using electronic voting machines that can be hacked, security experts said...
(News) Mergers and acquisitions involving tech bellwethers like Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and EMC, as well as upbeat reports on the...
(News) Enterprise search is set to become a pervasive and demanding force in IT over the next several years, according to Gartner...
(News) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has moved to set up a system that would send text alerts to people on their mobile...
(News) Government auditors were able to buy military-grade equipment, including night-vision goggles, body armor and parts for...
(News) Unlike companies in the U.S. and the U.K., firms in Continental Europe are still hesitant to outsource work offshore to...
(News) Intel shed more of its optical business assets on Thursday, selling the enterprise and storage assets of the unit to...
(News) Opera on Thursday added Google's Android to the list of platforms that can run its mobile browser.
(News) Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced it was shipping the quad-core Opteron chip in volume after fixing a bug, but...
(News) The buzz around Google's App Engine hasn't died a day after its launch, although not for the reason that Google probably would...
(News) A court-appointed official in California has shot down SAP AG's request that Oracle's general counsel be denied access to...
(News) Microsoft is now offering its Amalga health-care software in Europe, the company announced at the CohnIT heath-care show o...
(News) Adobe Systems debuted a new media playing software, Adobe Media Player 1.0 (AMP) along with online programming instruction...
(News) The chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing will be part of a delegation to the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) this week...
(News) Adobe Systems debuted a new media playing software, Adobe Media Player 1.0 (AMP) along with online programming instruction...
(News) Intel Capital, the chip maker's investment arm, added to its existing China-focused fund Tuesday with the creation of a se...
(News) EMC has agreed to buy storage vendor Iomega for US$213 million in cash, expanding EMC's reach into the fast-growing consum...
(News) U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his agency is working on a "reverse Manhattan Project" to help secu...
(News) The buzz around Google's App Engine hasn't died a day after its launch, although not for the reason that Google probably w...
(News) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the cap on H-1B immigrant worker visas for the 2009 fiscal y...
(News) Multicore processors, cloud computing, user interfaces, social networks/social software and Web mashups top a list of 10 "...
(News) Nonprofit group One Economy has enlisted the help of tech companies to launch a campaign to bring broadband to 500,000 low...
(News) The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), two leading tech...
(News) IBM believes it will prevail both with the U.S. International Trade Commission and in U.S. courts in a patent spat with As...
(News) The Council of the European Union lifted countervailing duties on imports of DRAM (dynamic RAM) chips made by Hynix Semico...
(News) Nimsoft, a vendor with products aimed at IT performance and availability, announced Tuesday it has bought Indicative Softw...
(News) Toshiba has taken the final step towards launch of a high-performance chip derived from the powerful Cell processor that p...
(News) Businesses that analyze their customer data efficiently can lower risk and fraud and boost their marketing and sales, said...
(News) Telecommunication companies need to go beyond just providing bandwidth and look into acquiring Internet destination sites that are heavily trafficked, Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy said on Friday.
(News) IBM's US$5 billion acquisition of business intelligence software vendor Cognos took a step forward on Thursday as European regulators gave their approval to the deal.
(News) Intel has developed a white-box blade server based on standardized components, instead of specialized parts usually used to produce such systems.
(News) A 30 percent stake in Hewlett-Packard's Chinese operations is up for sale to the highest bidder as the company's Chinese partner looks to sell its shares.
(News) Nearly one-fourth of companies are now using Web 2.0-social networking software in some form.
(News) IBM is buying Solid Information Technology, a maker of high-performance databases and a close partner of IBM rival MySQL.
(News) Gateway CEO will resign at the end of January, clearing the way for Acer's top executive in the Americas to take the helm.
(News) Gateway CEO Ed Coleman will resign from his position at the end of January, clearing the way for Acer's top executive in the Americas to take the helm, the Taiwanese company said Friday.
(News) AMD Chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz acknowledged Thursday that 2007 was a bad year for his company, but that didn't stop AMD's board of directors from raising his salary anyway.
(News) Amid further delays of AMD's quad-core server chip and plans to write off goodwill from the acquisition of ATI, AMD executives are going to face tough questions when they meet financial analysts in New York Thursday.
(News) U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras is consulting with the agency's ethics officer to see if she should recuse herself from a review of Google's planned acquisition of online ad network DoubleClick.
(News) Cutting costs will continue to be a top priority at Hewlett-Packard for the foreseeable future, as the company aims to offer infrastructure and services to capitalize on what it sees as a US$1.2 trillion market in digital content, HP CEO and President Mark Hurd said Tuesday.
(News) A research firm's new report predicts a gloomy outlook for IT spending.
(News) Microsoft has submitted data to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) using a newly released taxonomy for a financial reporting language designed to make it easier to compare companies' financial figures.
(News) IT spending will grow more slowly in 2008 than this year, with economic uncertainties taking a toll in the U.S. in particular, market researcher IDC predicts.
(News) Upbeat economic news strengthened investor confidence in technology this week, benefitting companies as diverse as eBay, Apple, Dell and Intel, but did not entirely dispel worries about corporate IT spending trends for 2008.
(News) Ed Zander will step down as CEO of Motorola at the end of the year, as the company continues to battle declining revenue and profit.
(News) HP expanded its PC market share lead over Dell, and Acer snatched the number two ranking in laptops away from its beleaguered rival during the third quarter, market researcher iSuppli said Thursday.
(News) Dell plans to expand its presence in China from 45 cities to more than 1,000 over the next year or so in a bid to match the broader market reach of Lenovo.
(News) Toshiba and NEC Electronics will work together on advanced chip manufacturing technologies to help them continue the steady miniaturization of consumer electronics products.
(News) Dubai International Capital has bought a "substantial" stake in Sony, another sign of Middle Eastern investors' growing interest in technology.
(News) Samsung Electronics plans to invest 2 trillion Korean won (US$2.2 billion) in a new LCD production line at a factory it originally opened with Sony -- but Sony will not be investing in the new line, Samsung said.
(News) Microsoft is delaying by six months its annual conference for hardware engineers, where it reveals its upcoming software plans to PC makers and other system builders.
(News) Dell plans to release a reference architecture in the future that will pave the way for enterprises to reduce power consumption and go green in the future, Dell CEO Michael Dell said in a keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld 2007 conference on Wednesday.
(News) Count HP CEO Mark Hurd among those who believe the tech industry could be on the cusp of another major wave of consolidation.
(News) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, Friday reported record high monthly chip sales for October, and reiterated its fourth-quarter guidance.
(News) Shares of Internet darling Google Inc. dropped below US$700 for the first time in seven trading days Thursday, in part due to fears the U.S. housing loan mess will spill over into the wider economy.
(News) Microsoft will release a public beta version of a bundle of server software products for medium-size businesses, code-named "Centro," in the first half of next year.
(News) Customers in the U.S. are increasingly looking for alternative countries for their outsourcing projects, industry analysts say.
(News) Microsoft will release a public beta version of a bundle of server software products for medium-size businesses, code-named "Centro," in the first half of next year.
(News) Microsoft on Tuesday said it is building its first large data center in Europe and expects to reveal details of a similar facility near Chicago on Wednesday.
(News) The sheer amount of data that small businesses have to deal with, frequently shared among employees, is feeding demand for network-attached storage.
(News) Sun Microsystems reported net income of US$89 million on strong hardware sales for its first quarter of fiscal 2008, with the company posting its fourth consecutive profitable quarter after several years of financial loss and instability.
(News) Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites have become the top tool for hiring IT staff, a new survey among recruitment companies reveals.
(News) IT shops are facing a demographic time bomb, according to a report by research firm Ovum Ltd.
(News) Acer Inc., the world's third largest PC vendor, said Friday that it is keeping an eye on a labor shortage in China that could affect PC production.
(News) Oracle has rejected BEA Systems' proposed purchase price of US$21 per share, calling it "impossibly high" for Oracle or any other company to pay.
(News) Acer has passed Lenovo Group as the world's third largest PC vendor with its purchase of Gateway, and now it's gunning for U.S. giant Dell.
(News) Worldwide lawsuits against Intel and four straight quarterly losses have distracted AMD during its integration of ATI Technologies, but the merger remains on track, according to industry analysts.
(News) Enterprise IT companies were conspicuously absent from the list of the 10 largest venture capital deals struck during the third quarter, as the growing market for alternative energy and other "clean tech" companies piqued investors' attention.
(News) A fast growth rate and recent acquisitions in the U.S. and Europe will extend Acer Inc.'s lead over Lenovo Group Ltd. as the world's third-largest PC vendor behind Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., according to a study released by Gartner Inc. Wednesday.
(News) Wipro Ltd., India's third largest outsourcer, Friday reported growth in revenue and profits for the quarter ended September 30.
(News) Still carrying the weight of costs related to last year's acquisition of graphics vendor ATI, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. recorded its fourth straight quarter of net losses Thursday.
(News) Sony Corp., Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Toshiba Corp. have decided to pool their resources into a joint venture that will take over manufacturing of the Cell processor and possibly other high-performance chips, they said Thursday.
(News) German software maker SAP AG said a stronger Euro significantly slowed the growth of its revenue and profits during the third quarter.
(News) European businesses are overtaking taking the U.S. in the drive for green data centers, though both regions have a long way to go, according to research by network attached storage specialist ONStor.
(News) Microsoft Corp. described wide industry support during the formal announcement of Office Communications Server in San Francisco on Tuesday.
(News) At its Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, IBM is deploying RFID technology on name tags worn by attendees that automatically tracks their session and meal attendance.
(News) Microsoft Corp. and Olympus Corp. have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement that allows each company access to some of the other's patents.
(News) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could increase sales by US$287 million by fixing just a small portion of its inventory problems using RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, and that could be just the start, an executive said Friday.
(News) IT investor confidence in technology is gaining strength. This week, vendors as diverse as Google Inc., Business Objects SA and VMware Inc. led the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index to break the 2800 mark for the first time since January 2001, the second week in a row the market has hit a six-year milestone.
(News) Oracle Corp. announced on Friday that it has offered to buy middleware vendor BEA Systems Inc. for US$17 per share in cash.
(News) Trading of shares in Sony Financial Holdings Inc., the financial arm of Sony Corp., began on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday morning as the company completed Japan's largest initial public offering of the year to-date.
(News) Acer Inc. has acquired over 90 percent of outstanding shares of Gateway Inc., paving the way for completion of the deal.
(News) Sony Corp. stands to raise about %30 billion (US$255 million) this week from an initial public offering of its financial services unit.
(News) Businesses need to become more proactive about managing their reputation online as the risks of operating on the web are on the increase, according to research from Gartner.
(News) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended the stock trading of three companies that haven't provided adequate information about themselves to the public, making them susceptible to spam-based stock scams, the agency said.
(News) The environmental pressure group, FOE (Friends of the Earth), believes carbon offsetting tactics are a smokescreen to avoid real measures to counter climate change.
(News) Telecommuting leads to a significant reduction in carbon emissions even when increased home-based carbon emissions are taken into account.
(News) Global chip sales soared in August, indicating makers of electronic devices such as PCs, iPods and mobile phones expect the holiday season to be strong this year.
(News) Sony Corp. and German memory chip maker Qimonda AG plan to form a joint venture chip design house to develop DRAM (dynamic RAM) for consumer and graphics devices, the companies said Tuesday.
(News) Microsoft Corp. has bought comparative shopping Web site Jellyfish.com, which gives its customers a cut of advertising revenue from retailers, offering a rebate on purchases made through the site.
