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Acer reported a rosy quarter, one InfoWorld described as its best revenue quarter ever . In the quarter in which it overtook Dell in shipments to become the world's No. 2 PC vendor, Acer ... More >
IBM has replaced Robert Moffat Jr. , a senior vice president, who was arrested in the Galleon Group hedge fund scheme, reports Bloomberg . Moffat was placed on leave after his arrest. Moffat at on... More >
In response to concerns raised by Canadian privacy officials , Facebook has revamped its privacy policy. According to PC Magazine , the updated version spells out privacy rules in a "clearer and m... More >
The global market for mobile phones will turn around in the fourth quarter, according to Strategy Analytics, a business research firm. Strategy Analytics' report predicts that worldwide shipments of... More >
Samsung Electronics reported that it tripled its profits in the third quarter of 2009, says Financial Times . The company reported 3,723 billion won (roughly US$3.12 billion) in net profits ... More >
Sony reported more losses for the third quarter of 2009, which included restructuring charges, says The Wall Street Journal . The company reported its third quarter losses at $287.5 million,... More >
According to an IDG story on CIO.com , Alcatel-Lucent reported a drop in sales and an increase in losses during the third quarter. The French company's revenue for the third quarter was 3.7... More >
Sprint plans to introduce a new, more open application store on its feature phones early in the first quarter of next year. The carrier also plans to remove its built-in set of applications from futu... More >
Motorola, a continual Sad Sack of late, surprised everyone with a third quarter in the black , reports Barron's . It reported net income of $12 million, or 1 cent a share, after a loss of $3... More >
Sprint Nextel reported a disappointing quarter as it continued to lose customers despite beefing up its phone subsidies, reports Bloomberg . It reported a loss of $478 million or 17 cents ... More >
Microsoft and Yahoo signed a binding letter agreement on their 10-year search deal in July, but ironing out all the details has taken longer than expected. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and ... More >
According to Computerworld , Google has been hit with a patent infringement suit filed by Israeli company Red Bend. Red Bend alleges that Google uses its patented technology in Courgette, t... More >
German software maker SAP reported a 12 percent increase in third-quarter profit , a figure below analyst expectations, reports Bloomberg . Net income rose to 435 million euros ($645 million... More >
Hector Ruiz, former head of AMD and current chair of AMD spinoff Global Foundries, is embroiled in the Galleon insider trading scheme that has seen six top executives arrested to date. Ruiz, who is n... More >
Indian software services firm Wipro reported net income rose 21 percent to 11.71 billion rupees ($243 million) in its most recent quarter, with revenue up 6 percent to 69.18 billion rupees ($1.44 bil... More >
FairPoint Communications filed for bankruptcy protection this week after it failed to properly integrate the phone lines it purchased from Verizon Communications last year, says The New York Times ... More >
French technology firm Dassault Systemes has signed a deal $600 million with IBM to take over part of its sales and customer support division, says The New York Times . The unit sells and supports... More >
Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell has been named to the board of directors of AOL , which is gearing up for a spinoff from Time Warner, reports The Wall Street Journa... More >
Verison reported profit declined by 29 percent in the third quarter with costs associated to its Alltel acquisition, reports bizjournals.com . Its net income was $1.18 billion, or 41 cents a... More >
EMC reported earnings were down 24 percent in the third quarter, but it beat analysts' expectations, reports MarketWatch . EMC reported profit of $298.2 million or 14 cents a share, on sal... More >
HTC worked with creative agency FigTree and ad agency Deutsch LA to develop a global ad campaign that will run across 20 countries with the tagline "You don't need to get a phone. You need a phone t... More >
Even amid the throes of recession, Amazon's profit surged 62 percent in the third quarter, according to The New York Times. , The company reported net income rose 62 percent to $199 million... More >
On the heels of its official release of Windows 7 , Microsoft announced net income fell 18 percent to $3.6 billion and revenue fell 14 percent to $12.92 billion for its first quarter, which ended Se... More >
Nokia is suing Apple claiming that the iPhone infringes on 10 of its patents, reports InformationWeek . The patents involve involve GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA), and wireless LAN standards. Ilkka Ra... More >
As previously speculated , both Microsoft and Google have announced agreements with Twitter to provide search of its posts in real time, reports The New York Times . According to The Inqu... More >
AT&T announced its net income was down in the third quarter, says The New York Times . The company could not cut costs enough to alleviate falling revenues from landlines. From July thro... More >
According to Computerworld , Phoenix Technologies Ltd. is accusing DeviceVM Inc. of trade secret theft and a former employee now at DeviceVM for breach of contract. The suit claims that former emp... More >
AT&T has sued Samsung Electronics and six other LCD manufacturers for allegedly fixing prices for panels sold in the United States, reports Bloomberg . The company claims that the manufacturer... More >
Yahoo's third quarter profits tripled , beating Wall Street's expectations, according to a Reuters story in eWEEK. The company attributes its success in part to diligent cost-cutting efforts... More >
When Apple took its Apple Store down for maintenance , it led some to believe that new Apple hardware was on its way, according to PC Magazine . The site was down since Tuesday , notes The Regist... More >
The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange plans a software- and product-development center in Belfast expected to produce 400 jobs there, according to an Associated Press story on Silicon... More >
ITWorld reports that Iconix has settled charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it violated a law prohibiting companies from collecting and using children's personal information without paren... More >
Based on customer feedback, Citrix has changed the licensing options for its upcoming desktop virtualization platform XenDesktop 4, reports ZDNet UK . Customers said per-user licensing woul... More >
Though struggling through bankruptcy and a Unix copyright trial involving Novell, SCO has fired its president and CEO, reports Computerworld . In a filing with the SEC, the Unix software vendo... More >
Apple profits soared in the fourth quarter. Apple said profits rose 47 percent to $1.67 billion. Revenue in the quarter was $9.87 billion compared with $7.9 billion a year ago. The company smashed W... More >
Microsoft has confirmed its first retail store will open Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz., to coincide with the release of its Windows 7 operating system, reports electronista . Actually, that... More >
TechFlash points to this Microsoft blog in which CEO Steve Ballmer says that the SharePoint business is "absolutely on fire." Ballmer announced Monday that public betas of both Microsoft Sh... More >
Expect more equipment failures, Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's global head of research, told those attending the Symposium/ITxpo 2009 conference. He said replacement of 3 million servers worldwi... More >
According to ChannelWeb , the FBI has charged a North Carolina couple with stealing more than $23 million from Cisco through fraudulent claims to the company's parts replacement service. Ma... More >
IBM is expanding its financing lures for businesses to help stimulate spending through the end of the year, reports Channel Web. The "Smart Financing Toolkit" announced Monday allows buyers ... More >
The U.S. International Trade Commission has concluded that Nokia hasn't infringed on patents belonging to InterDigital, reports Computerworld . Nokia says the commission has also withdrawn the po... More >
Sprint Nextel has agreed to buy affiliate iPCS for about $831 million in a deal that will end litigation between the two companies, according to The Kansas City Star . The deal involves $42... More >
Tata Consultancy Services has reported a 29 increase in profit during its most recent quarter, based on an improved business environment and cost-control measures, reports The Wall Street Journal .... More >
An IBM VP faces charges of insider trading after an FBI-led investigation including wiretapping. Five other executives at a variety of companies are also charged, including one Intel exec and a dir... More >
Dell plans to outsource the work from the manufacturing plant it's closing in North Carolina to other countries, reports the Austin Business Journal . The story quotes documents filed with t... More >
There's been a rash of stories bearing the words, "In the latest sign that the global economy may be on the mend ..." -- or something similar -- in this quarterly earnings report season. But Google's... More >
Investors are so fickle! Cut your losses like AMD did in the third quarter and they're still not happy. The chipmaker reported a loss of $128 million , or 18 cents a share, compared with a lo... More >
IBM posted third-quarter results that met Wall Street expectations and raised its forecast for the remainder of the year, but investors weren't impressed and its stock price fell by 5 percent in aft... More >
Sony Ericsson reported a fifth consecutive quarterly loss , but said the market is improving and it has arranged external credit of 455 million euros (US$679 million), largely through its parent com... More >
A district judge has ruled that Verizon Wireless doesn't have to pay separate performance rights fees for ringtones, reports The Wall Street Journal . The decision is a setback for the American So... More >
Massachusetts-based Kronos , which makes work force management software and services, has acquired time and attendance software vendor Stromberg for an undisclosed amount, reports The Boston Globe .... More >
According to V3.co.uk , Intel is taking its antitrust case against AMD to the U.S . The chip maker has already lost the case in Europe. Intel is angry that AMD failed to retain documents in ... More >
Amazon has announced it is offering same-day delivery on weekdays in seven cities: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Seattle and Washington D.C., reports TechFlash . The ... More >
Acer has overtaken Dell as the No. 2 global PC vendor after Hewlett-Packard, reports Bloomberg. According to figures from IDC and Gartner, Dell was the only top-five PC maker whose shipments... More >
Twitter is partnering with India's largest mobile services provider, Bharti Airtel, to provide tweets by SMS , the only Web connection many people in the developing world have, reports Venture Beat... More >
Nokia reported total net loss of 559 million euros ($834 million) in its latest quarter , compared with a profit of 1.09 billion euros ($1.6 billion) a year ago, according to Bloomberg . It took a... More >
As Nortel is sold off bit by bit, former CEO Mike Zafirovski has filed a claim that the Canadian company owes him more than US$12 million in pension, bonus and severance payments, reports Fierce T... More >
Though Perot Systems is in the midst of a buyout by Dell , it's also in the midst of acquiring BearingPoint China Consulting , reports InformationWeek . Financial details were not disclosed. ... More >
Providing further evidence that not-so-far down is the new up, Intel reported a 7.8 percent slide in third-quarter profits, but the market was jubilant. Intel reported net income fell to $1.8... More >
Miami-based TeleCuba Communications says the U.S. government has OK'd its plan to lay fiber-optic cable between Key West and Havana , reports The Miami Herald . The 110-mile cable, which wil... More >
U.S. venture capital firms invested nearly $6.1 billion in the third quarter, a 14 percent increase from the $5.2 billion invested in Q2, according to a report from ChubbyBrain . VC firms closed 680... More >
Vivu Inc., announced it received $3 million in Series A funding for its virtual video Webcast and collaboration platform. Vivu plans to use the infusion of cash to bring its flagship service to marke... More >
For nearly a week and a half now, some Facebook users have been unable to access their accounts , reports CNET News . Facebook will only say that the incident stemmed from "a technical issue with a... More >
According to The Boston Globe , documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show that Rocket Software Inc. has sold nearly $92 million in stock . There is no official word on who pu... More >
New research from Arbor Networks found that Google is the largest source of Internet traffic, accounting for 6 percent of Internet traffic globally. Google's position is part of a extraordinary under... More >
According to The New York Times , Cisco has agreed to pay $2.9 billion to buy Starent Networks , which makes products that help wireless telecommunications companies send large amounts of data to p... More >
Three years after Google acquired YouTube , the video-sharing site now gets more than 1 billion hits per day, AfterDawn.com reports. YouTube is in talks with UK broadcaster Channel 4. The deal wou... More >
Arthur Levinson, a director at both Apple and Google, has stepped down from Google's board as competition between the two companies continues to grow, reports Bloomberg . The departure of Levinson f... More >
The Storage Networking Industry Association announced the formation of the Cloud Storage Initiative to foster growth and success for both the commercial and consumer cloud storage market. The initiat... More >
While the Motorola Cliq 's release is a little more than a month away, Motorola is clearly staking its future with Google's Android operating system. The company already decided to drop Windows Mob... More >
In September, Facebook attracted 58.6 percent of all U.S. visits to social-networking sites, reports GigaOM . That's based on traffic analysis by HitWise of 10 million U.S. Web users across... More >
Facebook is facing a lawsuit by Phoenix Media/Communications for allegedly violating a patent related to setting up online personal profile pages, reports The Boston Globe . Phoenix Media claims th... More >
Government officials in North Carolina want Dell to repay the incentives the state offered for the company to build its plant in the state, reports eWEEK . Dell opened the plant in Winston-... More >
Infosys Technologies, India’s second-largest software exporter, reported an increase of 7.7 percent in second-quarter profit , beating analyst expectations, reports Bloomberg . Net income ro... More >
Due to its ongoing licensing litigation with Intel , Nvidia will cease developing chipsets for Intel CPUs. Nvidia's Intel chipset ban is expected to last until the matter is settled in court, report... More >
IBM has landed two multiyear outsourcing contracts with Indian companies. Under a $200 million, three-year deal, it will provide infrastructure and business solutions to Datacom Solutions as... More >
Kara Swisher at All Things Digital reports that Twitter is talking separately to Microsoft and Google about tie-ups that would allow data mining by their search engines . Twitter, which rec... More >
Dell is saying so long to its PC facility in Winston-Salem, NC, and letting go 905 employees in the process. The plant will officially be shuttered in January, but Dell plans to release the first 600... More >
A federal appeals court has ruled that eBay and Skype have not infringed on two of Peer Communication's peer-to-peer patents, reports Computerworld . Originally filed in 2006, the case deals with ... More >
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn't taking Apple's resignation quietly. Apple announced it was quitting the organization because it disagrees with the chamber's policy on climate change. The ... More >
Lawyers working for Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube say they have found evidence that managers of the video-sharing site not only knew of unauthorized content on their site, but... More >
The Federal Trade Commission has given its OK for Adobe Systems' deal to buy Web analytics firm Omniture, reports Reuters . Adobe first announced its bid to buy Omniture in September . Adobe is h... More >
According to a TechCrunch article in The Washington Post, Compuware is purchasing Web app experience management solution provider Gomez for $295 million in cash . Following government approvals, t... More >
Apple has become the latest defector -- and the first tech company to do so -- from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to regulate gre... More >
Emerson Electric, which makes power and cooling systems for data centers, plans to acquire Avocent Corp. , which makes network-management software, reports Bloomberg . The sale price is $1.2 billio... More >
Watertown, Mass-based Athenahealth is buying out software maker Anodyne Health Partners of Alpharetta, Ga., for $22.3 million in cash, reports ModernHealthcare.com. Athenahealth provides We... More >
According to InformationWeek , Psystar is looking to license its controversial Mac cloning technology to third parties. Says Psystar: In an effort to spread the Snow Leopard experience to a... More >
University of California tech spinoff Eolas has filed a patent-infringement suit against a virtual Who's Who of the tech industry's biggest players, including Adobe, Yahoo, Google and Amazon, repor... More >
To ensure that its Long-Term Evolution business hits the ground running, Verizon has launched the 4G Venture Forum, which will test and develop devices and applications on a functional LTE network. &... More >
Ciena Corp., which makes fiber-optic gear for telephone carriers, said it is in advanced talks to buy virtually all of Nortel's optical networking and Ethernet assets , reports Bloomberg . A... More >
Salesforce.com and Cisco are teaming up to offer cloud-based call center technology to small and midsize businesses, reports PC World . The Customer Interaction Cloud, designed for companie... More >
Hong Kong-based CDC Software has announced that it is buying a venture-backed business intelligence provider for manufacturing , though it did not disclose the name of the company to be acquired, no... More >
Goldman Sachs has raised its estimates on 18 IT hardware companies' stock including Dell, Apple, IBM and Seagate, saying these companies have moved “beyond stabilization” in their business to the pr... More >
Network equipment maker Brocade has quietly put itself up for sale and Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are among the potential buyers, reports Bloomberg , citing a story in The Wall Street Journal that... More >
Apple has challenged Woolworths over the Australian supermarket and retail chain's corporate logo, arguing that is stikingly similar to its own. Apple is demanding that Australian regulators issue a ... More >
According to electronista , Apple bought mapping service Placebase in July, keeping the acquisition quiet until now. Its version of how word leaked out differs from that on CNET News . Any... More >
Consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture has reported a 41 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit and backpedaled on its outlook for its upcoming fiscal year, reports BusinessWeek . It repo... More >
The first shareholder lawsuit protesting the planned Xerox buyout of Affiliated Computer Services was filed within 48 hours of the announcement, reports The New York Times . It expects there to be... More >
Microsoft's SQL Server is the most-used database in emerging markets , but the the open source database MySQL is gaining popularity, reports eWEEK . In an Evans Data survey of more than 400 d... More >
In a report with enough numbers to make your head hurt on a Friday afternoon, the Semiconductor Industry Association reports chips sales are down, but they're also up. The August numbers were ... More >
Microsoft officially showed off its data centers in Chicago and Dublin, Ireland, to the media this week, though they were due to be switched on in July , reports Channel Web . The containe... More >
IBM has quietly launched a hosted e-mail service based on its LotusLive collaboration software, reports VentureBeat . It touts the iNotes service as the "best of both worlds" -- hosted and ... More >
Microsoft's search engine Bing has been steadily gaining market share since its June launch, but September figures from online metrics firm StatCounter show its first decline , reports TopNews . ... More >
Nortel has announced plans to auction off its global GSM business , the latest sale of assets by the bankrupt telecommunications gear maker, reports Reuters . It is setting up with U.S. and ... More >
Cisco has agreed to buy Norwegian video conferencing company Tandberg for $2.97 billion in cash, reports The Wall Street Journal . Cisco will pay 153.50 kroner a share, an 11 percent premium... More >
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