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Dell's performance in Q1 is called "catastrophic" at TG Daily , after profits for that quarter fell 63 percent and revenues fell 23 percent. And this BusinessWeek piece says Gartner shows that HP ov... More >
IDC reports that the global server market suffered revenue declines in the double digits in Q1 2009. Enterprise customers working to bump up utilization of existing servers and extend the life of tho... More >
EMC announced it will buy Configuresoft , which makes server configuration, change- and compliance-management software, reports Channel Web . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. EMC already... More >
IBM is losing its top mergers and acquisitions guy to Dell and has already filed suit to stop him, reports Channel Web . David L. Johnson, a 27-year veteran, is IBM's vice president of corpo... More >
Time Warner plans to untie the knot with AOL after its board gave the idea “enthusiastic endorsement,” reports Kara Swisher at All Things Digital . The spinoff has been long expected after t... More >
Japan's Hitachi plans to split off consumer electronics and automotive systems into separate businesses, according to a Dow Jones story in The Wall Street Journal . As of July 1, the units ... More >
Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services will pay $50 million for UK-based Anix , an IT services and infrastructure vendor, reports TMCnet.com . Anix has 150 employees. Anix, a subsidiary o... More >
VMware will pay $20 million in stock to acquire a 5 percent stake in infrastructure-services firm Terremark , reports InfoWorld . VMware will buy 4 million shares of newly issued Terremark common ... More >
IBM is offering $3 billion in bridge financing for "smart" infrastructure projects in Europe and Asia , reports Reuters . That's on top of $2 billion made available last month for projects in the U... More >
Trading one tax haven for another, consulting and outsourcing company Accenture plans to switch its place of incorporation from Bermuda to Ireland, reports The Wall Street Journal . The company's ... More >
Psystar, maker of so-called Apple clones, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , according to CNET News . The petition shows that due to poor sales Psystar is more than $250,000 in... More >
In attempting to keep increasingly popular netbooks from horning in on sales of laptops, Microsoft and Intel want to keep screens to 10.2 inches or smaller , reports DigiTimes . To do that, ... More >
A Russian investment group is putting $200 million into Facebook in a deal that values the company at $10 billion, reports The Associated Press in a story on Newsvine.com. Digital Sky Tech... More >
Hewlett-Packard is recalling 15,000 laptop batteries sold in China because they might overheat, reports Reuters . That's on top of the 70,000 batteries being recalled in the United States. ... More >
The Associated Press reports that Twitter wants to do a TV series . The story in The Boston Globe says "The show would harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, ... More >
Microsoft will pull the plug on support for Office 2000 on July 14, which is also Patch Tuesday, reports Computerworld . No more updates or security patches will be offered, though, according to ... More >
Salesforce.com said its first-quarter profit nearly doubled as it drew in new customers and held the line on costs, reports MarketWatch . Sales were up 23 percent. Net income for the quarter... More >
Yahoo's shopping for acquisitions in social networking and companies that will help bolster its family of products. Though declining to get specific, Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh said... More >
Sony plans to reduce its supply chain from 2,500 vendors to 1,200 in the next year as tries to quickly reverse course. The company lost $1 billion last year. It wants to reduce purchasing cos... More >
Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy plans to step down July 1 and will be replaced by her longtime lieutenant, President Ursula Burns, reports The Wall Street Journal . Mulcahy will remain chairman of the board... More >
Following an announcement of a unified communications deal between HP and Microsoft, the two companies have announced another cross-patent licensing deal , reports InfoWorld . The companies ... More >
Computer maker Lenovo, already trying to regroup , posted a worse-than-expected loss in its most recent quarter, reports Bloomberg . It reported a loss of $264 million for the quarter ending... More >
Acer is dropping sales of two business-class servers in the United States, reports Channel Web . Its G540 Altos pedestal server already has been discontinued and shipments will end in June f... More >
NetApp plans to buy Data Domain , which makes deduplication storage appliances, for $1.5 billion. At the same time, NetApp CEO Daniel Warmenhoven refuted rumors that his own company is a takeover tar... More >
Toshiba plans to stop making mobile phones on its home turf in Japan since the market has tanked, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Boston Globe. Its revenue from the mobile ph... More >
Lee Williams, head of the Symbian Foundation, predicts sales of smartphones will increase 12 to 15 percent this year, reports Reuters . Chip designer ARM has put that number at 10 percent. ... More >
Yahoo is setting up a research-and-development center in China set to open next month, reports China Tech News . The center will be independent of Alibaba, which controls Yahoo's operations... More >
Just as the economy appears to be stirring a little, Hewlett-Packard reports big drops in sales across business lines , reports The New York Times . It also announced plans to lay off about ... More >
Being required to erase search data after six months could hamper Google's ability to track flu or other pandemics, co-founder Larry Page told a conference Tuesday. The company last year grudg... More >
Cisco wants its routers and switches used to deliver energy from the utility to consumer's homes as it enters the market for smart grid technology , reports The San Francisco Chronicle . The... More >
It's getting hard to keep up with Nokia's job cuts. The company announced Tuesday it would slash 170 positions worldwide in production and logistics for mobile devices and offer buyouts to 320 employ... More >
Noting that a little bit down is the new up in this economy, BusinessWeek says that Mac sales were down 1.8 percent in April compared to a year ago -- and that's a good thing. Analysts had been ... More >
Google continued to grow in April, with its lead up 0.5 percentage points to 64.2 percent of the search market, reports eWEEK . Yahoo, with 20.4 percent, and Microsoft, with 8.2 percent, eac... More >
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Monday that the company doesn't plan to include advertising in its business model at all, reports Reuters . Instead, it's focusing on add-on tools and services fo... More >
South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor is setting up a joint venture with China's Wuxi Industrial Development and will raise $305 million by selling the new company its packaging and testing equipment,... More >
AT&T announced previously that's it's getting into cloud computing , but it announced Monday morning at EMCWorld that it's pairing with EMC to offer cloud storage based on EMC's equipment, rep... More >
These are tough times for Sony -- it just reported a $1 billion loss last year. Now comes word it has hired senior executive George Bailey away from IBM to serve in the newly created position of se... More >
Gloating isn't pretty. Fun sometimes, but not pretty. AMD is so giddy about the EU smackdown of Intel, it's plastered the news on its home page and built a whole subsite about the ruling, reports ... More >
California-based Alien Technology is closing a plant in Fargo, N.D., that had been heralded as boosting high-tech business in that state, according to the Grand Forks Herald . The company is blaming... More >
Microsoft has signed a three-year partnership with the Chinese city of Hangzhouhas in its latest attempt to battle piracy. The agreement calls for rewarding businesses for using legal softwar... More >
There's nothing like public attention to bring about good company policy. Dell has formally banned the export of broken computers , monitors and parts to developing countries, reports CIO Today . &... More >
Clearwire has announced that Cisco will provide the gear as it builds out its Clear 4G mobile WiMAX service, reports bizjournals.com . It plans to offer the service in more than 80 markets by the ... More >
Sony reported a $1 billion loss for its fiscal year that ended in March, its first loss in 14 years, reports The Wall Street Journal . It expects the next year to be even worse as consumer demand ... More >
The Kindle isn't just for books anymore. Amazon has launched a beta program allowing bloggers to sell their writing on the e -reader, reports The Wall Street Journal . It won't let those wr... More >
Oracle announced Wednesday the acquisition of Virtual Iron Software , which makes software to manage server virtualization, reports bizjournals.com . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ac... More >
Verizon plans to sell its traditional telephone line business in 14 states to Frontier Communications in a deal valued at $8.6 billion, according to an Associated Press story in The Toronto Star. ... More >
Though the Semiconductor Industry Association reported a 30 percent sales decline in the first quarter, IDC says AMD gained on bitter rival Intel during that time. AMD gained 4.6 percentage ... More >
Even as a banruptcy judge is considering selling even the company's office space out from under it, Nortel is expanding. The company has set up a Global Network Operations Center in Bangalore,... More >
German software maker SAP plans to buy Sterling, Va.-based Clear Standards , which makes software for measuring and tracking greenhouse gas emissions, reports eWEEK . Financial terms were not discl... More >
How often do a couple wed, then both take on the bride's name? That's sort of what happened in Rackable Systems' acquisition of Silicon Graphics. The combined company will be called Silicon G... More >
Sun Microsystems has acknowledged it might have run afoul of international anti-bribery laws , though it's released no details, reports eWEEK . The Wall Street Journal reported Friday the in... More >
Microsoft plans a sell 5-, 10- and 30-year debt in deals that could take place as early as Monday, according to Bloomberg . It's a first for the Redmond software vendor. It's called a benchm... More >
Nortel, granted the luxury of not paying suppliers, debt holders and dismissed employees through its bankruptcy filing, reported its loss tripled in March , according to the Ottawa Citizen . ... More >
IT Business Edge's Ann All has been all over the fallout from President Obama's promise to end some popular tax breaks for offshore operations. Meanwhile, Todd Bishop at TechFlash looks at... More >
3com, which quit selling enterprise switches in the late '90s, has decided this downturn is the prime time to take on Cisco in the market, reports The Wall Street Journal . Cisco holds 70 p... More >
As part of its previously announced layoffs , Microsoft will cut about 1 percent of its staff in India, reports TopNews.in . That's about 55 people. As in its operations, it's cutting jobs... More >
Western New York is wooing Yahoo to locate a new data center there , reports The Buffalo News . It's competing for the project with Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, according to ... More >
Creating what it calls "one AMD," the chip maker has merged its microprocessor and graphics chip businesses under graphics chip boss Rick Bergman, reports Reuters . According to internetne... More >
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, trying to dispel talk that it only wanted Sun Microsystems for its software business, told Reuters his company has no plans to sell off Sun's hardware business . O... More >
Microsoft has announced it will buy Vancouver, B.C.-based videogame startup BigPark for an undisclosed sum, reports kombo.com . The company has been developing a game for Microsoft's Xbox 360 for ... More >
Cisco Chief Executive John Chambers said the market seems to be stabilizing, though the company posted a 21 percent decrease in earnings in the latest quarter. The Los Angeles Times quotes Chambers... More >
As it lays off 3,000 people or so, Microsoft also is scaling backs its efforts on several products , reports Ina Fried at CNET News . They include the ResponsePoint phone system, its .Net Micro Fra... More >
Google has thrown its support behind a bill requiring the federal government to take a complete inventory of the national airwaves to determine who is using what and how, reports Broadcasting and ... More >
eBay plans to close a customer-service facility in the Vancourver, B.C., area and consolidate operations in North America, reports Reuters . The facility in Burnaby, B.C., which employs 700... More >
Amazon made the big announcement Wednesday: Its Kindle DX has a 9.7-inch screen designed to better accommodate newspapers and magazines, reports The Wall Street Journal . But you knew that . &nbs... More >
Micro Focus announced Wednesday it will buy Borland Software , which makes application lifecycle management tools, for $75 million, and Compuware's application testing and automated software quality... More >
Two of D-Link Systems' top executives are out as the networking vendor consolidates its North and South American management operations, reports Channel Web . President and CEO Steven Joe a... More >
Microsoft's most recent layoffs might not be the last. In his memo Tuesday, CEO Steve Ballmer left the door open to further cuts , reports The Seattle Times . The company just cut 3,000 or ... More >
Web metrics firm Net Applications says the share of client devices using Linux reached 1.02 percent in April. And it only took 18 years writes, Preston Gralla at Computerworld in the blog post "Li... More >
Oracle has decided to waive the first year of extended support fees on older versions of some programs through 2011, reports The Contra Costa Times . That's one idea for gaining goodwill from cust... More >
Valleywag and TechCrunch set the rumor mill buzzing -- OK, I quelled the urge to say "atwitter" -- with rumors that Apple is in talks to buy Twitter for as much as $700 million. According ... More >
Sprint Nextel slowed its loss of customers in the first quarter, but still lost $600 million , reports The New York Times . The company lost 182,000 customers in the quarter, an improvement ... More >
Alcatel-Lucent's loss grew in the first quarter as companies held off on upgrading their networks, reports MarketWatch . Revenue fell 7 percent compared with the quarter a year ago and sal... More >
IBM has bought the software assets of Exeros, which are designed to find hidden relationships in databases , reports Network World . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It will join the C... More >
Amazon is said to be prepping to announce Wednesday a big-screen e-reader that some hope will pump renewed life -- and dollars, or course -- into the newspaper industry, according to The New York ... More >
Now that Oracle, not IBM, is buying Sun Microsystems, Big Blue has doubled its rewards for ditching Sun hardware, reports InformationWeek . Under its Power Rewards migration program, custom... More >
As expected, Emulex has rejected Broadcom's $764 million buyout offer , saying it does not reflect the company's value , reports InformationWeek . Though the $9.25-a-share offer reflects a... More >
Microsoft is looking for guinea pigs to test Project Huron , which is designed to allow local copies of a database to be synchronized with a database in the cloud, reports eWEEK. It explains... More >
Qimonda is shopping for a buyer for its Sandston, Va., plant, which was closed in April, reports bizjournals.com . It filed for bankruptcy protection in January and has been desperately seek... More >
Micron Technology will take half the DRAM production of chip maker Inotera, which had been left in the lurch with it when former reseller Qimonda went into bankruptcy , reports EETimes Deutschland ... More >
Taiwan's five largest DRAM makers posted massive losses in the most recent quarter, backing the sentiment from this Forbes piece from March that the government's plans to consolidate the industry m... More >
Chip sales fell 30 percent in the first quarter, though March saw an increase, reports MarketWatch . Channel Register quotes George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Associa... More >
Intel has released a software tool kit to allow data center managers to adapt the power fed to individual servers in response to workloads and use rate, reports InfoWorld . It's a do-it-you... More >
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