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Spending by Intel and GlobalFoundries, the contract manufacturing venture formed by AMD, has pushed the United States to the lead in global spending on chip manufacturing equipment , reports InfoWo... More >
AT&T has acquired mobile application developer Plusmo for an undisclosed amount, reports PC World . Plusmo offers cross-platform technology for creating widgets and applications more eff... More >
Nortel will have to take its protest of a $3 billion U.S. tax bill to court , a judge has ruled (yeah, they were already in court -- bankruptcy court). The tax claim was submitted only last m... More >
Taiwan’s Prime View International has agreed to sweeten the deal to acquire Cambridge, Mass.-based E-Ink Corp. as value of the company has risen, reports The Wall Street Journal . E-Ink mak... More >
Hewlett-Packard is working out a plan to merge its printer and PC business units under former Palm CEO Todd Bradley, reports TheStreet.com , pointing to a story in The Wall Street Journal that req... More >
Data-integration specialist Talend is buying assets for master data management from French vendor Amalto and will make them open source, reports InformationWeek . It professes that it will ... More >
FairPoint Communications, which last week told Vermont lawmakers it is hustling to improve service there, has moved closer to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reports bizjournals.com .... More >
The city of Los Angeles' plan to update its antiquated e-mail system is turning into an epic battle between Microsoft and Google for the $7.25 million contract, reports The Los Angeles Times . The... More >
Here's a tale of an acquisition that has entirely too many references to "gov" in it -- especially for private companies -- but we'll slog through it. GovDelivery.com, which provides e-mail an... More >
QuickBooks 2010 remains desktop software, but maker Intuit is offering some Web features, including an app store , reports Venture Beat . Actually, the company says it has signed up 90,000 d... More >
Figures from Nielsen research show the amount of time people spend on social-networking and blogging sites has tripled in a year, reports ReadWriteWeb. As of August, people spent 17 percent ... More >
Xerox has announced a $6.4 billion deal to buy outsourcing firm Affiliated Computer Services, reports InformationWeek . The Dallas Morning News points out it's the third local outsourcing d... More >
So what wacky thing do you do to celebrate your birthday? That crazy Google is celebrating its 11th anniversary by putting an extra "L" in its name . At least it did Sunday, according to Telegraph.... More >
IBM is teaming up with the local government of Dongying, China, and will provide its CloudBurst software and services for the region's planned Yellow River Delta Cloud Computing Center, reports eWE... More >
Defense contractor Science Applications International Corp. plans to move its headquarters from San Diego to Tysons Corner, Va., to be near its biggest client, the federal government, report The W... More >
Shares of Research In Motion took a dive after the BlackBerry maker reported weaker-than-expected sales in the second quarter and provided a sluggish outlook, reports MarketWatch . It says the sto... More >
Twitter is wrapping up details of a deal that would provide an infusion of $100 million of new funding from as many as seven investors, reports The Wall Street Journal . That's about twice the cas... More >
The state of Washington would have no $430 million shortfall if the state forced Microsoft to pay 13 years of back taxes on licensing revenue, argues former Microsoft employee Jeff Reifman in a blog... More >
Gmail has suffered another outage affecting what Google calls "a small subset of users." The Google Apps status dashboard first reported it at 7:29 a.m. PDT (10:29 EDT), according to CNET ... More >
Microsoft is offering free software and tools to Web site design and development companies with 10 or fewer employees, reports TechFlash . The " WebsiteSpark " program offers these small bus... More >
Health technology remains a hot area, and IBM is in the thick of it with a pilot project in Bolzano, Italy, to help the elderly live independently , reports InformationWeek . In the project ... More >
For its second quarter, Red Hat reported revenues of $183.6 million , boosted by higher sales of its open-source software subscriptions and a one-time tax benefit, reports InformationWeek . It's an... More >
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal District heard arguments in a patent infringement case involving Microsoft Word, reports Computerworld . Lawyers for i4i and Microsoft were each given 30 ... More >
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters the company plans to get back into the business of acquisitions after taking a breather earlier this year. He said the company probably will acquire on... More >
Nokia is buying UK social travel site Dopplr for a price reported to be between 10 million and 15 million euros (US$15 million to $22 million), reports TechCrunch . Dopplr , based in London ... More >
Dell has won approval from the European Union to receive a 54.4 million euro (US$80.4 million) subsidy from the Polish government to build a plant in Lodz, according to an Associated Press repo... More >
After spending a year integrating EDS since its acquisition , Hewlett-Packard has renamed the unit HP Enterprise Services , reports eWEEK . HP acquired EDS in May 2008 for $13.9 billion. It... More >
Microsoft has acquired software and intellectual property from four of its reseller partners in its attempt to create more vertical industry extensions to its Dynamics AX ERP platform. Financial term... More >
IBM is teaming up with Canonical to take on Microsoft in the market for low-cost software , beginning in Africa, reports The Wall Street Journal . IBM Smart Work Client includes basic progra... More >
Microsoft has acquired the technology assets of Waltham, Mass.-based Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), which specializes in desktop tools for parallel computing, reports Ars Technica . Financial de... More >
Oracle expects to increase cost-cutting for the remainder of its fiscal 2010, which began in June, reports InfoWorld. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the compan... More >
IBM has acquired Singapore-based customer-analytics firm RedPill for an undisclosed amount, reports Computerworld. RedPill's technology, designed to pull together marketing data stored in d... More >
The sell-off continues at Nortel Networks, with the company announcing plans to auction off software assets at its carrier division , according to The Canadian Press . The assets include so... More >
Trying to solve one of advertisers' big frustrations, Facebook is teaming up with research company Nielsen to help advertisers better understand the effectiveness of ad campaigns on the site, repor... More >
Omniture, which is being bought out by Adobe , and comScore have announced a partnership to better analyze Web traffic , reports bizjournals.com. The two companies acknowledge their metric... More >
Dell announced Monday it's buying the company of former presidential candidate Ross Perot, another Texas-based company that provides a range of IT services and business solutions. Even with th... More >
AT&T's Tech Support 360 service will be able to fix PC problems remotely even when the computer can't be booted, reports PCWorld.com . The company announced Thursday it is adopting Intel... More >
The Pre smartphone was supposed to be Palm's saving grace and surely it helped, but Palm reported its ninth consecutive quarterly loss and said that sales plunged more than 80 percent, reports Blo... More >
Google has launched its much-anticipated DoubleClick Ad Exchange , a sort of stock exchange for display ads with more than 40 ad networks across North America and Europe, reports eWEEK . CNE... More >
Microsoft on Thursday released Office Web Apps to technical preview , reports seattlepi.com . It's billing the online extensions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote as a packaged competit... More >
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has agreed to sell 24 wireless licenses covering parts of Washington and Oregon, including Seattle and Portland, to a division of AT&T, reports Bloomberg . &nbs... More >
IBM, which recently opened a technology services delivery center in Dubuque, Iowa, also has "smart" plans for the city and its citizens. It plans to provide sensors, software and Internet comp... More >
Oracle's profit rose 4 percent , but sales of database and middleware programs fell 22 percent in its most recent quarter, reports Bloomberg . Sales of new software licenses fell 17 percent ... More >
Despite protests from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion , the Canadian government won't intervene in Nortel's US$1.13 billion sale of wireless assets to Sweden's Ericsson, reports The Toronto S... More >
According to exo.performance.network's nearly 20,000 monitored PCs globally, 50.6 percent of users are running Firefox , though its increase in popularity is not coming at the expense of Internet Ex... More >
Microsoft is presenting its Office Live Workspace as a way for schools closed because of swine flu to keep classes going , according to an Associated Press story on seattlepi.com. Teachers... More >
Google has acquired reCAPTCHA , a company that grew out of research at Carnegie Mellon University, for an undisclosed price, reports bizjournals.com. The service creates those letters in squi... More >
Just as Microsoft is offering enterprise customers a kick in the rump to get them to move off Windows XP , it's behaving similarly to users of Windows Server 2000. The company has announced i... More >
We knew that, but IDC is saying it again: The problem with business intelligence is not so much the technology, but getting people to use it. It's a point that IT Business Edge's Mike Vizard h... More >
As it prepares to take over Sun Microsystems, Oracle is ending its computer-building relationship with Hewlett-Packard , reports Reuters . As Maureen O'Gara put it at Web 2.0 Journal : ...b... More >
Dell has agreed to pay $4 million to settle charges of fraudulent and deceptive business practices in a case brought by the state of New York, reports IDG in a story in the San Francisco Chronicle... More >
Facebook has announced it has become “free cash-flow positive,” meaning it earns enough to cover its operating costs, including capital expenditures. And it says it has passed the 300 million-member... More >
Despite other options, desktop PCs remain the mainstay of the corporate world, according to new Forrester Research. It surveyed more than 2,000 employees at companies with 100 or more workers ... More >
Adobe is moving beyond its roots in design in its bid to acquire Omniture , which provides businesses with technology used to manage their Web sites and analyze effectiveness of online ad campaigns,... More >
DigiTimes reports that Apple's demand for NAND flash has suppliers cutting shipments to other companies. It says Samsung has halved September shipments, Micron Technology has told customers... More >
Hewlett-Packard has formed a unit dedicated to managing enterprise print services and has expanded its alliance with Canon. The division, called Managed Enterprise Solutions, aims to consoli... More >
Trying to quiet arguments that it has too much power over your data, Google has made official an effort to make it easier to move your data from its applications to other vendors' services, reports... More >
In legal filings, Intel claims the European Commission made serious errors in levying a $1.45 billion fine against the chip maker, according to an Associated Press story in The New York Times. &nbs... More >
Intel captured 80.6 percent of microprocessor revenue worldwide in the second quarter, according to figures from iSupply. It was its highest rate in four years, reports CNET News . Intel's s... More >
InformationWeek reports that the huge data center being built by Amazon along the Columbia River in Oregon isn't even under construction. The Oregonian in Portland reported plans for the $35... More >
Software giant CA has announced a $200 million deal to acquire network performance-management vendor NetQoS , reports v3.co.uk . PCWorld.com quotes Redmonk analyst Michael Coté saying NetQo... More >
Talk that Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile, could make a bid for Sprint Nextel is boosting Sprint's stock price, but doing little for its own. USA Today says the rumor, ori... More >
Just when it seems every other company is embracing developers, Skye plans to abandon its Extras third-party application development program because of lack of interest in the applications, reports... More >
Intuit is reportedly buying out Mint , the free online personal finance site, for $170 million, reports TechCrunch . Mint won the top prize two years ago at the TechCrunch50 startup conference. It e... More >
Yahoo is selling its 1.14 percent stake in Alibaba.com for as much as $151 million after the Chinese auction site's stock price nearly quadrupled in Hong Kong trading this year, reports Bloomberg .... More >
Both EMC and Intel are reported to be in for some executive-suite shuffling. Patrick Gelsinger, head of Intel's core chip business, is moving to EMC to run its storage-products operations and ... More >
Despite a legal challenge from Verizon last week, Avaya has won the auction for Nortel's enterprise-telecommunications unit and other assets with a bid of US$915 million, reports Bloomberg . It ... More >
Showing the power -- and potential damage -- of Twitter, Microsoft employees revealed the company plans to launch a new version of search engine Bing next week, reports seattlepi.com . When aske... More >
In a legal filing, Verizon is challenging Avaya's bid for Nortel's enterprise assets, saying it would put U.S. security at risk, reports The Toronto Star . Verizon claims that Avaya would not be c... More >
Taking a cue from Twitter, Facebook is making Web server technology open source to encourage developers to create applications for the service, reports Computerworld . The technology, known... More >
While the European Commission scrutinizes Oracle's proposed buyout of Sun Microsystems, Oracle at last has offered a glimpse of its plans for Sun's Unix systems, reports Computerworld . I... More >
A report card on the user-friendliness of the mobile banking efforts of 29 institutions conducted by ABI Research found a mixed bag of results, reports Computerworld . Some regional banks ... More >
Microsoft has created the CodePlex open source foundation to bring commercial software companies and open source communities together on collaborative projects, reports Softpedia . The company w... More >
IBM and a consortium funded by the European Union have developed a multimedia search engine for untagged content. They claim their results are better than that produced by Google and Yahoo, accordi... More >
Dell is targeting smaller medical practices as it dives into the market for electronic medical records, reports The Wall Street Journal . Make that offices with 10 or fewer doctors, which is how mo... More >
Equinix, which provides data center and interconnection services, has announced plans to add two data centers, reports The San Jose Mercury News . It will build a $145 million, 170,000-squa... More >
An analyst report by T3i Group cites a "golden opportunity” for providers who help small and midsize businesses with wireless equipment/expense management services , reports eWEEK . The stor... More >
Microsoft's licensing process is too difficult for customers, according to Directions on Microsoft analysts Paul DeGroot and Rob Horwitz. Their report is called "5 Reasons Why Microsoft Licens... More >
AMD plans a new marketing campaign that will focus on the applications users can run with specific chips rather than technical specifications, reports Venture Beat . Rather than marketing 2... More >
Apple kicked off it's rock-n-roll themed event in San Francisco today. Trumping all news was Steve Jobs' first public appearance since his medical leave earlier this year. To no surprise, mu... More >
Microsoft's latest data center is eight miles from its main Redmond campus, though it could be anywhere -- it's designed to be managed remotely. According to seattlepi.com , a bit of culture... More >
IBM has released a free tool to make JavaScript development easier , reports InfoWorld . The Eclipse-based EGL Community Edition allows developers who use PHP, Ruby on Rails, Groovy, JavaS... More >
Salesforce.com is revamping its Service Cloud customer-service applications to include ways to provide service besides traditional call centers, reports v3.co.uk . It's adding features for ... More >
Verizon has announced a service, Managed Mobility Solutions, to help large enterprises secure and manage mobile devices , reports InfoWorld . The service is designed to help with device prov... More >
Cisco will be devoting $32 million to an investment fund to back IT innovation in South Korea, reports Seeking Alpha . The decision to back the fund, SkyLake Incuvest & Co., follows CEO J... More >
The market for storage software remains down , but the second quarter showed improvement over the first quarter, reports IT Pro . IDC reports overall growth declined 9.8 percent when compa... More >
TriQuint Semiconductor has acquired TriAccess Technologies , which makes cable TV and fiber-to-the-premise integrated circuit amplifiers for multimedia content, reports bizjournals.com . Financial d... More >
An 11-country study by technology research firm AMI-Partners found increasing interest in managed services and software-as-a-service among small and midsize businesses, reports eWEEK . In t... More >
The recession is over and IBM chief economist Philip Swan has called it . Actually, he pointed to various signs that the economy has bottomed out and said the country stands to reap a "productivity ... More >
Fixed-line phone company Windstream has announced the acquisition of North Carolina telecom Lexcom for approximately $141 million in cash, reports The Associated Press in Forbes. The deal... More >
Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom SA announced Tuesday they plan to combine their mobile phone units in the UK. The result will be the largest operator in the UK , reports The Associated Press... More >
The Chinese government has found a buyer for a 29 percent stake in the parent company of PC maker Lenovo , reports bizjournals.com . The story says private investment group China Oceanwide Holdings... More >
Like everything else in this economy, the market for external storage was down, by 18.3 percent in the second quarter, according to IDC. EMC leads the market for external disk storage systems ... More >
Deutsche Telekom is in talks with Vodafone, Telefónica and France Telecom on the sale of its unit T-Mobile UK, according to a story in v3.co.uk pointing to The Financial Times. None of the parties ... More >
Diebold is selling its voting machine unit to competitor Election Systems & Software. According to a Dow Jones story in The Wall Street Journal, the $5 million purchase price is about o... More >
Gartner and IDC agree that the server market is the pits. IDC earlier reported global shipments and revenues were down 30 percent in the second quarter. Meanwhile, Gartner's take on the situa... More >
Windows 7 is on pace to top Linux in market share even before it launches Oct. 22, according to TG Daily . From July, Linux market share fell from 2.02 percent to 1.97 percent, while Window... More >
Yahoo plans to move development of its Yahoo News unit to Taiwan , according to Kara Swisher at All Things Digital . She says the editorial staff for the Web's No. 1 news sites will remain i... More >
Defense contractor Raytheon is buying out BBN Technologies , a Cambridge, Mass., company that built for the Defense Department a computer network called Arpanet that was the forerunner of the modern... More >
The second quarter produced another grim market for servers, with sales revenue down 30 percent to $9.8 billion, the worst drop since IDC has been tracking the market. Shipments also dropped... More >
Wow! It must be all those cheap netbooks sold in emerging market or people looking things up on smartphones, but the number of Internet searches grew by 41 percent in the past year, according to c... More >
Microsoft's Hyper-V software still won't fill the bill for most enterprise applications when it is shipped in October with Windows Server 2008 R2, the Burton Group has determined. After compar... More >
Hot on the heels of its acquisition of FastScale Technology , EMC has also bought e-discovery specialist Kazeon , reports The Register . Though EMC did not disclose the purchase price, eWEEK put... More >
For the second time , Mac clone maker Psystar has file suit against Apple alleging that the company illegally ties the new Snow Leopard operating system to its hardware, reports Computerworld . "... More >
EMC has acquired FastScale Technology as a means to provide support for private clouds, according to InfoWorld . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. EMC said the acquisitions will extend i... More >
According to InformationWeek , IBM has filed documents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent for what it describes as a platform "for automatic blogging of media viewing using an e... More >
eBay has announced the sale of Skype to a group of investors including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen. The New York Times originally published the story based on unnamed sources, and Th... More >
Dell is teaming up with Brocade and Scalent to created a unified computing fabric to track virtual machines and resources across the data center, reports GigaOM . The story says Dell will pu... More >
Nokia Siemens has a new CEO, Rajeev Suri. According to Reuters , former CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie resigned and Suri, head of the company's services unit, stepped in. The Wall Street Journal... More >
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