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Admitting, “We are not doing this for altruistic reasons,” IBM is making $2 billion in bridge financing available for high-tech projects likely to receive funding through the federal stimulus packa... More >
At the behest of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Google has added Mexico to its Flu Trends site in an attempt to help health officials track outbreaks of swine flu , reports ... More >
Rooting through the U.S. Department of Commerce's quarterly report on gross domestic product, Computerworld found this explanation for tech companies' poor quarterly results . In the articl... More >
Calling effects of the economic downturn on mobile networks "limited," Ericsson reported sales were up 12 percent in the first quarter, reports PCWorld.com . Its joint venture with Sony , ... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is assembling a team to design its own chips , allowing it to work on new features outside the view of competitors. In addition to buying design c... More >
Motorola continues to bleed red ink, but managed to beat Wall Street estimates in the first quarter, reports The Chicago Tribune . It lost $231 million or 13 cents per share, three cents a ... More >
One of EMC's top executives has jumped ship and will join Hewlett-Packard as executive vice president for enterprise servers, storage and networking, reports SiliconBeat . David Donatelli, ... More >
Graphics chips seem to be the lone bright spot amid the dismal news in the semiconductor market. VentureBeat reports graphic chip sales grew 3.3 percent in the first quarter compared with fourth-... More >
Trend Micro is buying intrusion-prevention and firewall software vendor Third Brigade, a move that will add virtualization and cloud computing security products to its portfolio, reports SearchSec... More >
SAP has made nice with 12 user groups, agreeing to slow the rate at which fees for its Enterprise Support service rise and establishing key performance indicators to help users determine the value ... More >
Google has unveiled a new tool to help people search through those maddening government databanks , reports The Washington Post . Google Public Data initially will be available for use with ... More >
Profit at German software maker SAP fell 16 percent in the first quarter, reports MarketWatch . Net profit dropped to 204 million euros ($269 million), or 0.17 euro a share, from 242 millio... More >
Despite its stratospheric rise in users in March , Twitter appears to have a user-retention problem. According to Nielsen Online, more than 60 percent of Twitter users dropped the service w... More >
Sun Microsystems has reported a grim quarter, one it said was hurt by news of a possible impending buyout by IBM, then an actual deal with Oracle, reports Reuters . In addition to the crimp... More >
Nortel has been granted three more months to work out its plan to emerge from bankruptcy , reports Bloomberg . A Canadian judge has pushed back its deadline for the plan until July 30. The m... More >
Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded $1.7 billion in contracts with China’s two biggest phone companies to provide network upgrades and maintenance services, reports Bloomberg . It has one deal... More >
Holiday parties were among the first things to go , even before it became apparent how ugly this recession would get. Now it's the summer picnic. Microsoft has canceled its summer get-togeth... More >
Microsoft has lined up EDS, Accenture and a host of other partners others to sell its Business Productivity Suite, a collection of hosted online services including SharePoint, Office Communication... More >
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, have been named to a panel advising President Obama on how to boost spending on research and development, ... More >
After naming former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta as CEO as expected , MySpace has added a few more nameplates in the executive suite, reports Reuters . Former AOL exec Mike Jones has ... More >
Though it already leads the ebook market with its Kindle, Amazon has acquired Lexcycle , which makes Stanza, a desktop and Apple iPhone and iTouch application, reports PCWorld.com . Financial terms... More >
In response to Cisco's decision to enter the server market , IBM will rebrand and resell Brocade switches and routers , reports The Register . The products were part of Brocade's acquisitio... More >
Nokia said it will cut another 450 jobs as it continues to cut costs amid sinking demand , reports Business Week . It says the jobs to be cut will be in mobile games, internal IT and other units ... More >
The National Science Foundation has announced awards of nearly $5 million to 14 universities participating in the IBM/Google Cloud Computing Initiative , reports InfoWorld . Big Blue expla... More >
The number of Twitter users grew 95 percent in March from 9.8 million to 19.1 million, according to metrics firm comScore. TechCrunch reports 9.3 million of them reside in the United States. &nbs... More >
NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology have announced they will merge operations , making the new venture the world's third-largest semiconductor maker, reports The Associated Press in a story in ... More >
SAP and Teradata announced Monday they're teaming up to make SAP software work better with Teradata’s database systems, an attempt to take on Oracle's previous fusions of hardware and software , rep... More >
Despits all the speculation about where the bottom is in this recession, The Wall Street Journal says things are looking up for makers of memory chips . It says the two biggest companies,... More >
After weathering a storm of protest about a previous change to its terms of service , Facebook users have approved new ones, reports InformationWeek . It is, after all, allowing members to v... More >
Verizon got a boost from its acquisition of Alltel, showing a 5.3 percent increase in profit and 12 percent growth in revenue during its most recent quarter, reports CNET News . Net income ... More >
As if IBM didn't have its finger in every pie already, it's developing a computer system to compete with humans on "Jeopardy," reports bizjournals.com . It's spent two years developing the ... More >
ZDNet's Larry Dignan thinks there's a game afoot in calling the bottom of this recession . Like your March Madness pool, or here in Kentucky, the office Derby pot , in each earnings call i... More >
Apple has said CEO Steve Jobs remains active in the company , working from his home while on medical leave. A tidbit reported by The Wall Street Journal , however, suggests he's been a bit ... More >
Amazon's deep discounting and free shipping surprised Wall Street with a 24 percent increase in profit in the first quarter, reports The Seattle Times . Its profit was $177 million, or 41 c... More >
Apple has put the brakes on its rapid growth in retail stores and has eliminated 1,600 jobs , according to a Dow Jones story in The Wall Street Journal. That could have something to do with... More >
Microsoft reported the first quarterly decline in the company's history and a 32 percent drop in profit during the first three months of this year, reports USA Today . The company reported ... More >
Microsoft announced this week it's adding health care to its Citizens Service Platform , which is designed to help governments create applications and Internet-based services to connect with citizen... More >
Add EMC to the vendors feeling around for the bottom of this recession. The company reported its first-quarter profit fell 23 percent as companies cut spending on data storage. Its 16 cents-... More >
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer called the most recent quarter “ the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in our history ." Among the results ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes pulled from ... More >
Eleven-year-old VMware reported its first decline in quarterly sales and offered a disappointing outlook for the next quarter, reports Reuters . In the first quarter, net income was $69.9 m... More >
AT&T is coming out in favor of more controls on targeted advertising , reports The Wall Street Journal . At a House subcommittee hearing on the issue Thursday, AT&T advocated more tr... More >
MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe is out, though he will still be a strategic advisor and member of the board of MySpace China for now, reports CNNMoney.com . All Things Digital 's Peter Kafka also... More >
California-based Asyst Technologies, which makes equipment to manufacture semiconductors, has decided to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it tries to survive after demand has "declined dramaticall... More >
I prefer to write about things that actually do happen, as opposed to things that could happen -- all sorts of things could happen, but don't. But because they're gaining a life of their own... More >
Indian outsourcer Wipro reported fourth-quarter profits up 3.7 percent with the rupee's decline boosting the value of overseas deals, reports Bloomberg . It earned 9.07 billion rupees ($178... More >
China's Huawei is in a rare position, posting a 20 percent proft for 2008 while rival telecommunications vendors' profits fell, reports The Wall Street Journal . And that's despite significant los... More >
AT&T's profit fell 9.7 percent in the first quarter, but Wall Street had expected its returns to be far worse, reports The New York Times . Its net income for the quarter was $3.1 billio... More >
AMD reported its 10th consecutive quarterly loss Tuesday, with red ink of $416 million on revenue of $1.18 billion, reports The San Jose Mercury News . Still, it did slightly better than an... More >
Yahoo reported a 78 percent drop in first-quarter income.and said it plans a layoff of 675 workers , the first under new CEO Carol Bartz , reports The Los Angeles Times . Analysts were una... More >
Even stalwart IBM is feeling a bit of heat from the recession. Big Blue reported net income fell 1 percent in the first quarter. It blamed currency fluctuations and weak technology spending, accordin... More >
After being rejected previously, semiconductor maker Broadcom has made an unsolicited $764 million bid to buy data center technology vendor Emulex, reports Barron's . The $9.25-a-share offe... More >
Texas Instruments' quarterly report shows once again it's all a matter of perspective. The Business Review reports the chipmaker beat expectations in the first quarter though its profit was d... More >
A couple of Network World stories focus on a hospital in Thailand that's turning to wireless technology. Bumrungrad International Hospital will use Motorola handheld devices to give doctor... More >
VMware has rebranded its Virtual Infrastructure 3 as vSphere 4 , taking what used to be called a virtual data center operating system and instead calling it a cloud operating system, reports SDTime... More >
Apple won kudos and Dell, um, did not in Forrester's “Customer Experience Index 2008 Snapshot,” reports eWEEK . For the report, Forrester polled 4600 customers about their interactions with... More >
In a deal that'll make some heads snap around, Oracle has agreed to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, reports InformationWeek . Oracle and Sun said Sun’s cash and debt put the value o... More >
Tyco Electronics has agreed to sell its wireless division to government contractor Harris Corp. for $675 million in cash, reports The Boston Globe, which calls it one of the largest acquisitions ... More >
Toshiba announced Friday it will terminate 3,900 contract workers in Japan as it tries to stem the company's red ink, reports The New York Times . It put its net loss for the fiscal year en... More >
Marketing research firm In-Stat is predicting worldwide shipments of mobile phones will drop 20.5 percent this year as markets mature and people don't feel the need to upgrade, reports The New Yor... More >
Sony Ericsson announced Friday a 293 million euro ($387 million) net loss in the first quarter and said it plans to cut another 2,000 jobs , according to an Associated Press story in The New York... More >
Google's growth is slowing , but it's still weathering this economic storm while putting a severe crimp in its spendthrift ways, reports The Associated Press in a story on Newsvine.com. It ... More >
The bar on Microsoft's Redmond campus is back on the agenda, reports TechFlash , after the company nixed the idea last Friday . After working on the concept for a year, the company at the la... More >
Netbooks continue to save the PC industry, according to IDC, which reported shipments of personal computers slid 7.1 percent in the first quarter. And in a break from the recent past, the mar... More >
Sun would be open to continuing takeover talks with IBM if Big Blue were more committed to closing the deal, reports Bloomberg , citing two unnamed sources reported to be close to the negotiations... More >
In eBay's quest to buy South Korean rival Gmarket, Yahoo also has agreed to sell its stake to the online auction site, reports Network World . Yahoo holds a 10 percent stake, which it will ... More >
Though we reported earlier this week that eBay's offer for a controlling stake in South Korean rival Gmarket was not a done deal, it's growing closer. A tentative deal has been reached and p... More >
In an attempt to pin down Amazon's market reach, RBC Capital analyst Stephen Ju says the e-commerce giant could have its fingers in about a third of all U.S. online transactions , reports Barron's ... More >
Amazon.co.uk is opting out of BT's deep packet inspection system to deliver targeted advertising , reports Network World . The system, which tracks users' every click online in order to p... More >
Larry Brilliant, former director of Google's philanthropic arm, and Jeff Skoll, founding president of eBay, are starting a $100 million fund to tackle what they consider five of the most pressing p... More >
eBay has announced plans to spin off Internet phone service Skype in an initial public offering later this year, reports The Los Angeles Times . The online auction house bought Skype for $2.6... More >
Progress Software Corp., which makes application infrastructure software, is finding waves of opportunity arising from the sea. With partner DC Systems, it's providing inventory management f... More >
Oracle is proving unrelenting on maintenance fees as it renews contracts by the end of its fiscal year May 31, reports InfoWorld . It had a 90 percent profit margin on its $2.9 billion in r... More >
Channel Web has an interesting story from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Chicago on how tech companies can land business from the funding for electronic heal... More >
Security software company Entrust has agreed to a $114 million buyout by private investment firm Thoma Bravo, reports The Associated Press in a story on Newsvine.com. Shareholders will rec... More >
Lest anybody worry about that, The Wall Street Journal reports that Steve Jobs is actively involved in running Apple, even though he's on medical leave . The story says Chief Operating Offi... More >
Venturbay Consultants, a subsidiary controlled by Tech Mahindra, is the winning bidder for a controlling stake in troubled Satyam Computer Services , reports Network World . Tech Mahindra wa... More >
Reports that eBay is buying a controlling stake in its key competitor in South Korea are premature , reports The Wall Street Journal. Parent company Interpark Corp. had been reported to be ... More >
Microsoft has suddenly nixed a bar on its Redmond campus that was to open Monday, reports TechFlash . Plans for the bar, called Spitfire, had been in the works for more than a year , accor... More >
Through there's much hand-wringing about how Twitter will make money, it's been pretty obvious that businesses would find a use for it . AT&T illustrates the most recent case. CNET News ... More >
Microsoft and Yahoo are talking again about possible partnerships in search and advertising, reports All Things Digital . The story characterizes the talks a preliminary and wide-ranging at this p... More >
TechFlash reports that Microsoft cut in half its Live Labs applied research group and shifted half of its employees to other product groups. The remaining Live Labs groups are to focus work on Inter... More >
Intel Chairman Dr. Craig Barrett signed a deal with Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan to help modernize the country’s education system, says ... More >
IDC released a report that predicts the virtual server management software market to increase by 21 percent in the next four years, says eWeek . The cause of the growth will be increased usage of vi... More >
IBM worked with TD Securities to develop an extremely fast options-trading system — one that runs nearly 21 times faster than systems on the market today, says Bloomberg . The system can process da... More >
Australia's Victoria University is contracting with IBM to build a green data center that it hopes will save $300,000 over the next 10 years on energy costs, reports eWEEK . The single data... More >
Microsoft has hired away Sun Microsystems' top chip guy , which seems odd since Microsoft isn't in the chip business, reports eWEEK . Marc Tremblay's title will be "distinguished engineer" i... More >
It's no surprise that 2008 was a tough year in the semiconductor market. Worldwide revenue dropped by 5 percent, reports eWEEK , citing Gartner’s annual semiconductor industry survey. Intel f... More >
U.S.-based Micron Technology and its Taiwan partner Nanya Technology have bowed out of Taiwan's consolidated DRAM company , Taiwan Memory Co., reports Reuters . Taiwan Memory announced las... More >
The general manager of Microsoft’s Data Center Services unit, Michael Manos, is leaving the company to become a senior vice president at Digital Realty Trust, a company that both designs and manages ... More >
Cisco will acquire Tidal Software, which makes application-management software, for $105 million, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Washington Post. The networking company said ... More >
According to Barron’s , Google increased its shares in the U.S. search market for the month of March, while Yahoo’s results fell. Google’s hold in March was at 72.39 percent, while Yahoo’s was at 16.... More >
Nokia Siemens, looking to expand in North America, has made an offer for Nortel assets, reports The Canadian Press , citing a story in The Wall Street Journal. Nortel, which is in bankruptcy ... More >
According to CNET News , Facebook is celebrating its 200 millionth member sign-up today. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news on the company’s blog, saying: Growing rapidly to 200 million users is ... More >
The board of Sun Microsystems is today holding its first meeting since the collapse of talks with IBM over a buy-out, says the San Jose Mercury News . The company’s stock prices have fallen nearly... More >
According to the Wall Street Journal , one of Google’s top sales executives, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, is leaving the company to join Accel Partners as a CEO-in-residence. In an interview with BoomTo... More >
Verizon Wireless has been forced to sell off some of its assets after its recent acquisition of Alltel Wireless. The assets, said to cover 2.1 million customers and be worth around $3 billion, have a... More >
Technology vendors such as Cisco are offering grant writers and other help to institutions and corporations that could be in line for money from the federal stimulus package, reports The Wall Stre... More >
After successfully launching online election centers in Australia and the U.S., Google has opened its Google India Elections Center, says TechCrunch . TechTree.com says the search giant part... More >
Four companies have lined up to bid on a stake in scandal-ridden Satyam, reports Economic Times . They are Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro, Indian IT services firm Tech Mahindra, New ... More >
The list of top-paid CEOs for 2008 has been released, and filling the number-one spot is Motorola’s co-CEO Sanjay Jha, whose total compensation for last year totaled $104.4 million, says mocoNews.ne... More >
Dell unleashed a deluge of announcements concerning new IT solutions and partnerships aimed at the IT healthcare market, says TechNewsWorld . Its new offerings include its Mobile Clinical Computing ... More >
In another sign of plans to spin off AOL, Time Warner is seeking to amend its debt agreements for the unit, reports Bloomberg . Joe Weisenthal at Silicon Alley Insider explains it this way... More >
Cisco plans to snap up other companies as their value declines in this sour economy and plans to pick up the pace of its acquisitions, reports Bloomberg . The story quotes Ned Hooper,Cisco’... More >
In these extreme times, with vendors going to extreme lengths to get your business, VMware's jumping in with both feet. The company's Professional Services unit will work with you to save 5... More >
Internet Explorer 8 so far isn't reversing the declining fortunes of Microsoft's browser. Overall, Internet Explorer continued losing market share in March, down to 66.8 percent of the market from ... More >
Shares of Sun Microsystems fell 24 percent to $6.44 after the company turned down IBM’s buy-out offer of $7 billion, according to Reuters . Sun’s shares had been up during the talks with IBM, but n... More >
IBM plans to announce Monday its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, according to Bloomberg . The unnamed source of the story says talks are still under way. The purchase price is expected to ... More >
Braintree, Mass.-based Haemonetics Corp., which offers products and services that help manage the blood supply, has acquired Altivation Software , a California company that produces information-mana... More >
Who's to say where the bottom is in the free-fall that is the chip market? The Semiconductor Industry Association reports global semiconductor sales fell 30.4 percent in February to $14.17 billion.... More >
Amid the continuing talks with IBM about a buyout, Sun Microsystems has been centralizing its sales and services operations , reports eWEEK . In a move away from the distributed regional mo... More >
Opera Software has struck deals to provide its browser in Ford trucks and vans and for Nintendo game consoles, reports eWEEK . Ford F-150, Super Duty, E-Series and Transit Connect trucks an... More >
The Texas state Senate has given preliminary approval to a state budget outlawing Windows Vista at state agencies without legislative approval, reports Computerworld . McAllen Democrat Sen.... More >
Google and Twitter are at least talking about a buyout. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that two sources close to the negotiations told him the talks were in late stages, while a third sourc... More >
Hoping to come up with some cool applications, Clearwire is setting up a "sandbox" for developers in Silicon Valley with free access to its 4G wireless network, reports CNET News . It will ... More >
IBM and the Mayo Clinic have set up a Web site where researchers and open source developers can access and contribute code to their system of extracting data from unstructured text , reports Heal... More >
IBM has cut its offer for Sun Microsystems by about $1 a share, reports The Wall Street Journal . The two companies are now talking about a deal of between $9 and $10, as opposed to the pro... More >
Verizon Wireless plans to open what it's calling an LTE Innovation Center in Waltham, Mass., to bring 4G products to market, reports InformationWeek . Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson are suppor... More >
Intel and GE announced Thursday they will invest $250 million over the next five years to develop technologies to help doctors monitor patients remotely, reports Reuters . The companies sai... More >
February appears to have been just a blip as again in March more people ditched Windows XP than took up Vista, reports Computerworld . Net Applications data showed that 88.1 percent of the ... More >
In one of the more confusing stories to surface Wednesday, the Taiwanese government has chosen Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. as a technology partner in its efforts to shore up its DRAM industry. ... More >
A former Hitachi sales executive has been indicted on charges of conspiring to fix prices for LCD displays sold to Dell, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Boston Globe. Sakae So... More >
Facebook's CFO Gideon Yu is leaving the company, though The New York Times backtracked on its report that Yu was dismissed. Yu helped engineer Microsoft's investment in the social network th... More >
Gartner expects tech spending to decline by 3.8 percent in 2009, to $3.2 trillion, reports The Associated Press in a story on seattlepi.com. The research firm expects hardware to take the gr... More >
Server and storage vendor Rackable Systems has agreed to pay about $25 million in cash for the assets of beleaguered systems maker Silicon Graphics Inc., reports eWEEK . SGI had just filed ... More >
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