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Forrester has lowered its forecast for IT spending in 2009 , saying it will drop 10.6 percent globally this year, rather than the 3 percent forecast earlier. In the United States, it put the d... More >
Online jeweler Blue Nile has joined Amazon in cutting its North Carolina affiliates over state online sales tax legislation, reports TechFlash . It quotes Blue Nile's spokesman John Baird s... More >
Six months after scaling back its build-out of huge data centers, Microsoft has announced that two will open this month. Its 300,000-square-foot facility in Dublin, Ireland, will go online We... More >
The Japanese government has offered a 160 billion yen (US$1.7 billion) bailout for troubled chip maker Elpida Memory , reports newschannelasia.com . It will sell securities worth 30 billion ... More >
Last week, Amazon cut off its affiliates in North Carolina and since has cut off affiliates in Rhode Island as it attempts to send a message to state lawmakers that it opposes bills creating online... More >
It's been reported before that China was backing off its plans to require filtering software on PCs sold as of July 1, but apparently this time it's official. The Associated Press , in a st... More >
Steve Jobs has officially returned to the helm of Apple , though he's working a few days a week from home, reports The San Francisco Chronicle . Doctors at the Memphis, Tenn., hospital where Jobs u... More >
Earnings dropped in the third quarter for Accenture , the world’s second-largest tech-consulting firm, though it still beat analysts expectations, reports Bloomberg . It reported net income o... More >
Sony has begun shipping PCs to China with the controversial Green Dam filtering software, not waiting until the July 1 deadline the Chinese government has imposed . A Sony document shipped wi... More >
Alcatel-Lucent is teaming up with German carrier E-Plus Group to offer targeted mobile advertising , reports Computerworld . Their offering, Advertising Selection Server, will be strictly ... More >
EMC has extended until July 10 its buyout offer for Data Domain, reports InfoWorld . EMC offered $1.9 billion in cash, but Data Domain accepted a cash-and-stock deal at the same price offered by ... More >
Microsoft is looking for a buyer for Razorfish , the digital agency it acquired in 2007 as part of its $6 billion takeover of aQuantive, reports Financial Times . It says Razorfish, which some obser... More >
The day that Michael Jackson died, he did a number on the Internet, too. The Wall Street Journal speculates on what would have happened the day that Elvis died . Akamai, which monitors Web ... More >
Red Hat reported Wednesday that quarterly profits were up 7 percent and profits were up slightly, reports Reuters . CEO James Whitehurst said he knows "how to put a lid on costs," that his company ... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that Tech Mahindra and Satyam Computer Services will merge and be called Mahindra Satyam, though CXOtoday.com and other Indian publications portray the relationship... More >
IBM has named Elias Mendoza , who handled mergers and acquisitions for the company in Asia, as its M&A chief, reports Reuters . Mendoza formerly worked for investment bank Morgan Stanley. ... More >
Count California as the latest state where Amazon is threatening to cut off affiliates if an online sales tax is imposed. Earlier this week it was North Carolina . TechFlash reports Amazon ... More >
Oracle reported a drop in sales and profit for its fourth quarter, but beat Wall Street expectations nevertheless. According to The San Jose Mercury News , the fees it collects for maintenance and ... More >
With Steve Jobs' permission, the Tennessee hospital where the Apple CEO underwent a liver transplant has acknowledged the surgery . The Los Angeles Times quotes James D. Eason, chief of tran... More >
IBM supplied five of the 10 fastest computers in the world while Cray and Sun Microsystems each provided two, reports eWEEK in a story about the most recent release of the Top500 list. The ... More >
On-demand business intelligence vendor LucidEra is going out of business at the end of the month, reports InfoWorld . It says the service is still live and the company is working on customer trans... More >
Amazon subsidiary A9 has acquired SnapTell , a mobile image-matching startup, for an undisclosed amount, reports The Wall Street Journal . SnapTell has created an app that lets iPhone or A... More >
Socialtext is offering its business collaboration tools free for up to 50 users, reports Venture Beat . It says the Socialtext Free 50 includes company social networks, blog publishing, one wiki-s... More >
An add-on to Web-based productivity suite Zoho allows it to be integrated with Microsoft's SharePoint , reports Venture Beat . Basically it allows online collaboration on documents that exist on ... More >
Alcatel-Lucent and Hewlett-Packard have entered into a 10-year partnership to develop and market communications and computing products, reports bizjournals.com . Telecom networking hasn't be... More >
Amazon has threatened to cut off commissions to affiliates in North Carolina if that state passes legislation requiring online retailers to collect the state's 4.5 percent sales tax, reports the N... More >
Nortel Networks has agreed to sell its wireless network infrastructure business assets to Nokia Siemens for $650 million, reports PCWorld.com . Nortel sought bankruptcy protection in Janua... More >
Just over a month after acquiring Virtual Iron, Oracle is discontinuing the virtualization product , reports The Register . It says partners will not be allowed to sell new licenses, even to... More >
As the push continues to figure out how Twitter will make money, one idea is by targeting advertising in real time. Todd Chaffee, a Twitter investor and general partner at Institutional Ventur... More >
The buzz in the blogosphere about Steve Jobs' liver transplant now centers on what Apple had a responsibility to disclose about it. The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday that Jobs underwent th... More >
The New York Times reports that despite reports otherwise , China has not backed off the requirement that filtering software be installed in all PCs sold in the country starting July 1. It says t... More >
For only the second time, RIM reported a drop in new subscriber sign-ups for its fiscal first quarter, when 3.8 million new subscribers were added, compared to 3.9 million the previous quarter, say... More >
IBM announced Wednesday plans to invest $100 million to to develop new services for mobile phones , reports The New York Times . Big Blue was fairly vague about its goals, but said it will w... More >
Adobe reported a 41 percent drop in profit for the second quarter on weak sales of Creative Suite 4, reports Bloomberg . Net income fell to $126.1 million, or 24 cents a share, from $214.9 ... More >
Facebook became the favored U.S. social-networking site in May, with 70.278 million unique visitors in the states, compared to MySpace's 70.237 million, reports PC Magazine . Based on data f... More >
Dell has begun offering preconfingred servers, storage modules and software for customers who want to get things up and running more quickly than with custom orders, reports PCWorld.com . I... More >
Worldwide sales of business intelligence software reached $8.8 billion increase in 2008, an increase of nearly 22 percent from 2007, reports Channel Web based on a Gartner report. The BI market g... More >
Gartner is seeing some improvement in the market for semiconductor equipment and expects growth through the rest of the year and into 2010, reports InformationWeek . Nevertheless, it says ... More >
Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a tool to help CIOs better understand IT spending and run IT "like a business," reports vnunet.com . Network World quotes HP VP Robin Purohit as saying: A lo... More >
The New York Times reports that Sun Microsystems is killing its big chip-development project , the 16-core "Rock" UltraSparc-RK processor. It's been working on the Rock for five years, and though i... More >
Adobe has taken Acrobat.com out of beta and said it will charge for the collaboration suite. The basic version, at $14.99 allows Web meetings of up to five people and online PDF conversion o... More >
Opera Software has released an alpha version of Unite , a platform with a Web server in its browser that lets users share files, photos and music without the need for traditional Web servers, report... More >
China has backed off its requirement that filtering software be installed in all PCs sold in China, making it optional instead, reports Channel Web . There's been a huge outcry over the re... More >
Hoping to lure more developers to it, Salesforce.com is offering a free, stripped-down version of Force.com development platform, reports eWEEK . The platform, similar to Amazon's EC2 and E... More >
Taking a cue from IBM's financing arm , General Electric has announced it will offer $100 million in bridge financing for customers of its electronic health records systems, reports The Associate... More >
Recalling problems with marketing the Chevy Nova to Spanish-speakers , Microsoft doesn't like to call the search engine it just introduced in China "Bing." According to The Wall Street Jouna... More >
Despite its plans for layoffs and other major cost-cutting , Hewlett-Packard is increasing its budget for advanced research by 30 percent, reports The Wall Street Journal . It's not saying, thoug... More >
GPS maker TomTom, most recently in the news for its patent spat with Microsoft , plans to issue new shares to raise 430 million euros ($601.4 million) to offset its heavy debt, reports Bloomberg ... More >
IBM is throwing its weight behind cloud computing for the enterprise with a rash of products and services to be announced Monday, according to The New York Times . The story likens the push to Big... More >
Conferencing applications were the lone bright spot in the first quarter in the market for unified communications , according to a report by Synergy Research Group. The overall UC market totaled $91... More >
AOL, in the process of being jettisoned from Time Warner , has bought two startups focused on neighborhood news as its goes after the local ad market, reports The Boston Globe . Going tar... More >
While Twitter is still working out a plan to make money , Dell says it has made $3 million through Twitter since 2007, when it started offering coupons and tweets about new products, reports Th... More >
Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan says he thinks the worst of the economic downturn is over, but he that it might take a year for outsourcing demand to pick back up , reports Dow Jones in a story in ... More >
Yahoo has wooed away Tim Morse , who is CFO at semiconductor company Altera Corp. and a 15-year veteran of General Electric before 2007, reports The New York Times . Morse replaces CFO Blak... More >
Hot on the heels of a Cisco report predicting Internet traffic growth will be all about video , BT Group in the UK has suggested that the big video providers such as YouTube and the BBC's iPlayer pa... More >
Dell and Microsoft announced Thursday that downloadable Microsoft products will be sold through Dell's Download Store . Dell is the first outside company that's been allowed to do that, reports CNE... More >
Microsoft plans to pull the plug on its Money personal finance program . It will stop selling it at the end of June, but will support it through January 2011, reports Ina Fried at CNET News . ... More >
Dell is looking to make acquisitions and expects to buy a "significant-sized company" in the next few months. It specifically wants to expand its storage and services businesses, reports The Street... More >
Palm has replaced Chairman and CEO Ed Colligan with Jon Rubinstein, who formerly headed Apple's iPod division, but returned to Palm as executive chairman two years ago, reports CNET News . ... More >
Craigslist, which began as an e-mail list in 1995 is on pace to reach $100 million in revenue this year, reports The Associated Press in a story on seattlepi.com. That would represent growth of 2... More >
There was no fire sale on Oracle licenses at the end of the fiscal year May 31, reports Eliot Arlo Colon, president of Miro Consulting. According to Computerweek , it's common for companies... More >
If (or more likely when) Oracle buys out Sun Microsystems, CEO Jonathan Schwartz will get severance of about $12 million and Chairman Scott McNealy about $9.5 million, reports Computerworld . &nbs... More >
TechCrunch's Robin Wauters says Facebook's traffic is closing in on that of Google and Yahoo and has already surpassed MSN's. According to Web analytics firm Compete, traffic to Facebook incr... More >
Starting at midnight Saturday (actually 12:01 a.m. EDT, 9:01pm PDT Friday), Facebook will allow users to adopt vanity URLs for their accounts, reports ReadWriteWeb . So instead of: http://www... More >
If you're a company that runs really big data centers, Hewlett-Packard has servers for that. HP's ProLiant SL servers , aimed at Web companies like Yahoo and Facebook, are based on Intel's Xeo... More >
We're all multitasking and we're watching video online, two things that have Cisco predicting the wild growth in Internet traffic will continue , reports GigaOM . While it said last year tha... More >
SAP plans to give online software another go after its 2007 offering for small businesses didn't take off, reports The Wall Street Journal . SAP's John Wookey told a conference in Amsterdam... More >
A group representing technology companies has asked China to reconsider its requirement that censoring software be bundled with new computers come July 1, reports Reuters . The requirement ... More >
Officials in Lebanon, Tenn., are considering a lawsuit against Dell after providing tax breaks in return for a promise of creating 1,000 jobs there. They say Dell has not lived up to the agreement,... More >
Microsoft’s IP Ventures has spun off Microsoft’s Software Licensing and Protection Services, a unit since 2007 that sells technology to help software providers protect and license products, reports ... More >
Satyam surprised the market with the announcement of a standalone net profit of 1.81 billion rupees (US$38 million) in the October-December quarter and a cash balance of 3.73 billion rupees ($78.9... More >
Qwest has decided to keep its long-distance network after failing to attract the bids it wanted, reports Reuters . The Denver-based company has received one unsolicited offer for the networ... More >
China is requiring all PCs, whether made in the country or imported, to contain software to filter out pornography and other "inappropriate content," reports PCWorld.com . As of July 1, the... More >
Sun's stockholders will vote a buyout by Oracle at a special shareholder meeting July 16, reports MarketWatch . In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Sun said the buy... More >
Intel's venture capital arm is investing $43 million to help a Tokyo-based WiMax operator build out the world's fastest WiMax service, reports PCWorld.com . UQ Communications plans to forma... More >
The federal stimulus package, with its required tracking and transparency , will be a boon for business intelligence vendors , according to Intelligent Enterprise . That fact isn't lost on ... More >
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has acquired Dash Navigation for an undisclosed sum, reports Red Herring , which likens the purchase to Nokia's buyout of Navteq. It says BlackBerries so... More >
Business data is proliferating at a mind-boggling rate , but companies are reluctant to invest in storage, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker report. It fou... More >
IBM has called on the lawyers to kindly request that Microsoft stop claiming superior performance and value by running IBM's WebSphere on Windows Server 2008 , reports eWEEK . Steven Martin,... More >
Microsoft plans to spend up to $100 million to promote its new search engine Bing. Besides a traditional TV campaign -- All Things Digital has a preview of upcoming ads -- it will include referen... More >
Though according to BusinessWeek , things are looking up , the Semiconductor Industry Association has lowered its chip sales forecast for the year. It now expects sales to fall by 21 percent... More >
Looking for ways to cut costs, troubled Satyam could lay off as many as 8,000 people, reports Bloomberg . It says the Indian outsourcing company has lost about 46 clients since January when the com... More >
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Steve Jobs is ready to return to the helm at Apple this month, and the blogosphere's abuzz about whether he'll make an appearance at the Worldwide Developers... More >
Telecommunications and network equipment maker Ciena has reported a loss of $503.2 million in its fiscal second quarter, according to an Associated Press story in The Boston Globe. It blam... More >
Jupiter Research is predicting that mobile advertising will grow to $5.7 billion by 2014 , reports InformationWeek . Its report "Mobile Advertising: Delivery Channels, Business Models, &... More >
Data Domain has agreed to be bought out by NetApp for $1.9 billion, though EMC offered an all-cash deal at the same price, reports InfoWorld . NetApp's offer was in cash and stock. EMC has b... More >
IBM has announced a bunch of products and services to support its Information on Demand portfolio , which helps companies gain insight from their business data, according to an IDG story in The Ne... More >
Apple has announced it will build a data center in North Carolina after that state's Legislature scurried to rewrite tax law to provide it some hefty incentives, according to an Associated Press ... More >
Google has gone live with its Google Squared search tool, which presents information in a spreadsheet, reports PCWorld.com . Users can customize the table to tailor their search as they see... More >
Intel has announced plans to buy software company Wind River Systems for about $884 million as it tries to move into markets beyond personal computers, reports Bloomberg . Companies such as Sony a... More >
Shipments of printers were down more than 17 percent worldwide in the first quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker. Channel Web reports that 26.4 milli... More >
Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and Quickbooks, will buy online payroll services provider PayCycle for about $170 million, reports Reuters . It says the acquisition will help boost its payro... More >
Not to be outdone by EMC, NetApp has increased its offer for Data Domain to to $30 a share in cash and stock, reports Bloomberg . In April, it offered $25 a share, but EMC topped it with a... More >
The Nielsen Co. reports that Facebook users spent 13.9 billion minutes on the site in April, compared with nearly 5 billion minutes spent on MySpace, according to Computerworld . Users spen... More >
CA has bought the assets of data center automation vendor Cassatt , reports Network World . Financial details were not disclosed. Cassatt's technology in virtualization and cloud computing ... More >
The server market continued its decline in the first quarter with worldwide shipments and revenues each down 24 percent, according to Gartner. The declines were worse than expected. IBM stil... More >
Emulex told Broadcom to get lost before, now it's going to court to force the issue , reports The Wall Street Journal . In a lawsuit, it claims Broadcom hasn't revealed enough information a... More >
Google's the company most likely to be tracking your every click, according to a study by three University of California-Berkeley students for their master's project. They found that of 100 We... More >
Micron Technology announced that it plans to sell 65 percent of its imaging unit to Riverwood Capital and TPG Capital, reports Barron's . Financial terms were not disclosed. Micron will ret... More >
EMC has trumped rival NetApp's bid for Data Domain with an offer of $30 a share, or $1.8 billion, reports The Los Angeles Times . NetApp had planned to buy the backup system provider for $25... More >
Microsoft is buying certain assets of Rosetta Biosoftware , a subsidiary of pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., reports BusinessWeek. The purchase price was not disclosed. The acquisiti... More >
SiCortex, which makes energy-efficient high-end servers , is going out of business , reports CNET News . Though it has raised $42 million in the past, the well ran dry from its venture capital inv... More >
Novell's profit in the second quarter nearly tripled, though its revenue declined, reports The Boston Globe . For the quarter that ended April 30, the company earned $15.6 million, or 5 cents a shar... More >
Troubled General Motors and Citigroup are being replaced in the Dow Jones Industrial Average with Cisco and Travelers , reports The Associated Press in a story in The Washington Post. The change t... More >
Adobe on Monday launched public betas of tools to help developers and designers build rich Internet applications , reports Channel Web . Flash Builder 4 is actually a rebranded tool formerl... More >
Taiwan’s Prime View International is buying E Ink, the Cambridge, Mass, company that makes the electronic paper display used in e-readers such as Amazon's Kindle as well as those made by Sony and o... More >
Google plans to take on Amazon in the e-book market, reports Channel Web . According to Computerworld , the books would be tied to Google's search engine results . The company said it is d... More >
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