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You've gotta love the name of the site liliputing , especially in noting that 1 in 5 notebooks sold in the second quarter was a netbook . In fact, the popularity of netbooks has been credi... More >
Business Catalyst, the company that makes the e-commerce software suite GoodBarry , says on its Web site that it has been bought out by Adobe, reports eWEEK . There's no word on a purchase price, a... More >
Though on Friday I e-mailed my son's science teacher a link to the BBC News story about IBM researchers capturing the image of the inner workings of a single molecule, I didn't see what this has ... More >
Open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho is wooing customers of proprietary offerings with financial incentives to make the switch, reports InfoWorld . Sys-con Media points to an ... More >
It's probably a good thing that Sun Microsystems is being bought out by Oracle, or maybe the buyout's a contributing factor, but Sun had a miserable fourth fiscal quarter. Bloomberg reports ... More >
Global chip sales are picking up, which observers portray as a sign that the downturn seems to be easing. The Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday that microprocessor sales in J... More >
Middleware provider Tibco is buying is buying DataSynapse in a $28 million deal to strengthen its base in cloud computing, reports Ovum . DataSynapse provides services to applications runni... More >
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross has taken the second-largest stake in Satyam Computer Services' U.S. securities after being beaten out for control of the Indian software developer, reports Bloomb... More >
Intel has raised its sales forecast for the third quarter, putting weight behind the buzz that the PC market is picking up. It now predicts sales will be at least $8.8 billion, up from the $8... More >
Dell reported Thursday that its second-quarter profit was down 23 percent , but its stock surged on the news, reports Dow Jones in The Wall Street Journal . It reported earnings of $472 mill... More >
On Thursday, Google made translation a feature of Google Docs , reports CNET News . It allows you to translate a document into any of 42 languages and to compare the two documents side by si... More >
Spending on enterprise software in China will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 18 percent to reach US$9.4 billion by 2012, reports Network World . Those estimates come from Springboa... More >
The market for printers and copiers fell 20.2 percent in the first half of 2009 compared with the period a year ago, reports eWEEK . Shipments for printers, copiers and multifunction printe... More >
Sales were up, but earnings declined 20 percent for PC maker Acer in its second quarter, according to Reuters , which it says show how cheap netbooks are eating into profits. It's a point ... More >
VeriSign is selling its mobile messaging unit for $175 million to Syniverse Holdings as part of its plan to divest of non-core businesses, reports The San Jose Mercury News. The products he... More >
Trying to make its cloud-computing services more attractive to large businesses by calming their fears about security, Amazon has launched a service called Virtual Private Cloud for its EC2 service... More >
Salesforce.com has added a reseller program to Force.com development platform to spur adoption, reports Computerworld . The price for partners will start at $7.50 per user per month for the... More >
Lombard, Ill., reseller Sysix Technologies has gone out of business less than two months after the death of President and CEO John Sheaffer, reports Channel Web . The story provides no deta... More >
Gartner raised its forecast for revenue from global chip sales for the year to $212 billion, reports Computerworld . That would represent a year-over-year decline of 17.1 percent, rather than its ... More >
Yahoo is buying Arabic-language Internet portal Maktoob to expand its presence in that part of the world. The company did not disclose financial details, though TechCrunch's sources put the price a... More >
Chinese PC maker Lenovo plans to spend $3.3 billion on equipment in Taiwan during the next 12 months, reports Bloomberg . The story says it will buy computers, PC peripherals and monitors f... More >
The surgeon who replaced Steve Jobs' liver specializes in treatment of the recurrence of cancer called neuroendocrine tumor, which Jobs had five years ago, reports Bloomberg . Apple has co... More >
Amazon is trying to lock in more users to longer-term contracts by lowering the price of "reserved instances" of its EC2 service by 30 percent, reports TechFlash . Rather than the on-demand... More >
The market for managed services contracted by small and midsized businesses is expected to grow 8.8 percent in 2009 to $14.3 billion, according to research by Techaisle. It put the market for remot... More >
Intel has acquired RapidMind, a company that provides a multicore platform for development of parallel applications , reports Softpedia . Financial details were not disclosed. While multico... More >
The Justice Department has approved Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems , reports InformationWeek . The federal body had been delving into antitrust implications of the d... More >
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft sites were the top three on comScore's top 50 U.S. Internet properties for July, reports seattlepi.com . Google properties, which include YouTube, drew 158.8 mil... More >
Smartphones continue to prop up the mobile phone market, but most models sold are still feature phones , according to research by NPD Group. Smartphones such as the iPhone and BlackBerry made... More >
Preparing for the release of Windows 7, Dell on Friday released drivers for the new operating system for its commercial laptops and desktops, reports InformationWeek . The drivers can be do... More >
Tech outsourcing and consulting firm Accenture said it is cutting jobs and office space as it tries to hold the line on expenses, reports Reuters . The company plans to lay off 7 percent of... More >
Salesforce.com reported its profit more than doubled in the more recent quarter and raised its outlook for the remainder of the year, reports The Wall Street Journal . It reported earnings o... More >
The state of Montana is asking Qwest to reconsider pursuing a federal grant aimed at bringing broadband Internet to underserved areas, according to an Associated Press story in seattlepi.com. &nb... More >
Network storage vendor NetApp has named a new CEO. President and Chief Operating Officer Tom Georgens is replacing CEO and board chairman Dan Warmenhoven, reports eWEEK . Warmenhoven, CEO f... More >
Palm's former CEO Ed Colligan rejected Steve Jobs' proposal that the two companies form a pact against poaching each other's employees , reports Bloomberg . The news service says it has revi... More >
Google is offering enterprises a chance to compare their internal search results with those Google produces in a product called Side by Side, reports v3.co.uk . It's also allowing users to ... More >
IBM is looking to boost the tech industry in Brazil , which could join China and India as hot spots of innovation, reports BusinessWeek . It's kicking off its efforts with a forum for venture... More >
Hewlett-Packard is considering selling off parts of its outsourcing business in order to focus on areas with higher margins, reports Reuters . Offloading its business processing outsourcing... More >
Hewlett-Packard blamed weakness in sales of PCs and printer ink for a 19 percent drop in profit in its latest quarter, reports The Los Angeles Times . It reported earnings of $1.64 billion, ... More >
Apple still topped PCs in the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index survey, but the popularity of netbooks cut the margin, reports Computerworld . The study done by the University of M... More >
A California judge has ordered Matthew Miller of Delaware to pay $210,563 in damages and court costs for selling copies of software packages on an Internet auction site, reports Computerworld . &n... More >
Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry, is ranked No. 1 in Fortune magazine's ranking of the fastest-growing companies . It's kept the breathless pace of increasing revenue by 77 per... More >
It's hard to keep up with URL shortening service tr.im, as IT Business Edge Ann All has found out. In just eight days, it has gone from shutting down, to reopening in search of a buyer, to ... More >
Qwest is getting out of the wireless business and has told customers they have to find a new carrier by Oct. 31, reports Reuters . The company did not own its own wireless network, but used ... More >
Troubled handset maker Sony Ericsson has announced that President and Chief Executive Dick Komiyama is being replaced by Bert Nordberg , the head of Ericsson's broadband and Internet protocol unit, ... More >
IBM is looking to the design of DNA molecules to create ever-smaller microchips, reports InformationWeek . IBM researchers, along with scientists at the California Institute of Technology, ha... More >
Alltel, T-Mobile, and Verizon were ranked the top wireless carriers in customer service in J.D. Power and Associates' latest study, reports InformationWeek . For the report , 12,000 people ... More >
Lenovo is quietly recalling some Thinkpad laptop batteries because they erroneously display a message that they are damaged, reports The Register . As TG Daily notes, Lenovo's home page do... More >
China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, said Thursday that PC makers will not be required to bundle an Internet filtering program with computers sold in the country, re... More >
Clearwire has named Huawei as one of its suppliers for the national Wimax network it's rolling out. The deal is seen as a coup for the Chinese infrastructure company, which has struggled to gain a f... More >
Smartphones were the bright spot in the mobile handset market in the second quarter and the iPhone the star among the smartphones, reports The Wall Street Journal . Gartner found that around ... More >
Network security vendor Fortinet plans an initial public offering to raise as much as $100 million, reports Reuters . According to its regulatory filing, it plans to use the money to develo... More >
Microsoft isn't abandoning its Quincy, Wash., data center , though it announced last week it was moving its Azure cloud operations out of the Northwest. Microsoft referred to "a change in loca... More >
Ethernet equipment vendor Extreme Networks has snapped up the technology assets of Soapstone Networks for a price that Extreme will disclose only as less than $5 million, reports Telephony Online ... More >
Online retail spending declined 1 percent to $30.2 billion in the second quarter when compared with a year ago, according to comScore figures. Computerworld calls it only the second time tha... More >
VMware is acquiring software maker SpringSource , which offers Web application development and management services for about $362 million in cash and stock, reports CNNMoney.com . As part of the dea... More >
Facebook is buying FriendFeed for an undisclosed sum, reports InformationWeek . It didn't say what it plans to do with the social-media aggregator, though PCWorld.com points out that withi... More >
Houston-based BMC Software announced Monday the acquisition of MQSoftware , which will expand its business into middleware, reports CIO.com . Financial terms were not disclosed. The story sa... More >
Microsoft is diving into the effort to revise the Web standard HTML 5 , reports CNET News , noting that it previously left it to Apple, Google, Opera and Mozilla. It raised a bunch of conce... More >
Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski is stepping down after three years of trying to salvage the troubled company and its board is being reduced from nine members to three, according to a Dow Jones story in... More >
Though faulty graphics chips still haunt Nvidia, the company posted a smaller loss in the second quarter than a year ago, reports MarketWatch . It posted a loss of $105.3 million, or 19 cen... More >
Microsoft is selling its Razorfish digital advertising unit to French ad giant Publicis Groupe for $530 million, reports InformationWeek . Publicis will pay with cash and 6.5 million of its ... More >
Google and Apple had an unofficial policy not to poach each other's workers, reports TechCrunch . It's not clear whether the unwritten policy remains in effect now that Google CEO Eric Schm... More >
Thanks in part to netbook vendors making processor purchases put off during Q1, the 2009 second quarter brought a rise of 10 percent in PC microprocessor sales, according to IDC. PCWorld.com says... More >
A judge has ruled that SCO cannot sell off part of its business in order to fund its ongoing litigation against Novell and IBM, reports The Register . In June, SCO proposed a deal in which Gulf Ca... More >
TechRadium Inc. is suing Twitter for patent infringement , reports boston.com . The company claims tweeting infringes on its “systems and methods” of three patents for what it calls the “mass noti... More >
Analysts are expecting Cisco Systems to report today a 17 percent drop in revenue from the year-ago quarter, and a drop in earnings. Further, says, internetnews.com , they expect the following qua... More >
Nortel Networks has received approval for the sale of its wireless business, after filing for bankruptcy at the beginning of the year and making a "stalking horse" agreement for the assets with Avaya... More >
The new China Analytics Solution Center just opened by IBM in Beijing joins similar new facilities in Berlin and Tokyo, and employs 300 engineers, mathematicians and scientists, with another 300 to... More >
Starting today, Google is advertising its Google Apps productivity software through a series of billboard placements in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston, reports PCWorld.com . The ads, wh... More >
According to NetworkWorld , Apple has patented a nano-phone concept . Diagrams presented on MacNN show an iPod nano-sized handset that has a screen on the front and a touch-sensitive surface on... More >
Google chief Eric Schmidt is leaving his position on the board of directors for Apple. CEO Steve Jobs cites the likelihood that Schmidt's position would be "significantly diminished" given that the... More >
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