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Google is hoping that a panel of judges that is deciding where to consolidate several lawsuits against the company over its Wi-Fi snooping will choose the Northern District of California , according... More >
The U.S. Justice Department has filed suit against Oracle , claiming the company defrauded the federal government on a huge software contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars between 1998 and 20... More >
Alcatel-Lucent cut its operating loss by two-thirds in the second quarter, though revenue was down 2.4 percent, reports PCWorld.com . The company an adjusted operating profit of 28 million euros (... More >
Research firm iSuppli says the market for telecom gear will grow 7 percent in 2011. The market declined 5.7 percent during the economic downturn of 2009, reports Reuters . It says aggressi... More >
The Droid smartphone is helping to put Motorola back on track, with the company beating sales expectations in the second quarter, reports Bloomberg . The company sold 2.7 million smartphone... More >
According to Computerworld , a trio of plaintiffs has sued Apple over claims that its iPad easily overheats , then suddenly switches off. The plaintiffs -- Jacob Balthazar, Claudia Keller an... More >
A London High Court essentially slapped World Programming Ltd. on the wrist for infringing SAS documentation copyrights, but referred the crux of the case -- infringement upon SAS software copyright... More >
SAP reported profit increased 15 percent in the second quarter, with revenue up 12 percent, reports Bloomberg . It posted profit of 491 million euros ($638.2 million), or 41 cents a share, f... More >
Though Google beat out Microsoft for that $7.25 million contract with the city of Los Angeles to replace its aging e-mail system, Google has missed the implementation deadline, reports The Los A... More >
To shamelessly rip off a line from Chico Escuela on "Saturday Night Live," Windows 7 has been bery, bery good to Microsoft. The company reported Thursday that revenues were up 22 percent, to... More >
Massive layoffs in its fixed-line business pushed Verizon into the red in the second quarter, reports Market Watch . The company reported it lost lost $198 million or 7 cents a share, down... More >
Nokia, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, is still struggling to find its mojo in the smartphone market. Nokia's second-quarter net profit fell 40 percent to 227 million euros (US$289.8 ... More >
Whatever its woes, Apple's iPhone remains good for AT&T. The carrier announced a 26 percent increase in profit during the second quarter, reports PCWorld.com . It reported earnings o... More >
Motorola has added competitor Huawei Technologies to its 2-year-old industrial spying lawsuit, claiming that Huawei received valuable technology from its own rogue employees. According to C... More >
Chip maker Qualcomm reported Wednesday third-quarter profit rose 4 percent, topping Wall Street estimates, reports Reuters . Its profit reached $767 million, or 47 cents a share, compared... More >
Reuters reports that Intel has reached a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. According to Barron's , not only would Intel have to extend changes required under it... More >
VMware posted rosy quarterly results Tuesday, as did EMC, which holds a majority stake in VMware. VMware said revenue climbed 48 percent in the second quarter to $674 million, up from $456... More >
In another sign that companies are spending on IT -- and that the data explosion is forcing them to -- storage vendor EMC more than doubled its profit in the second quarter. Its profit reac... More >
Though IT Business Edge's Rob Enderle wrote that Apple’s lost its magic when CEO Steve Jobs compared the iPhone 4's antenna woes to other cell phones', the company certainly had mojo in its most re... More >
Dell is buying Ocarina Networks, which makes compression and deduplication technology, cutting the amount of data that customers need to store, reports Channel Web. The price was not disclosed. &nbs... More >
IBM blamed a weaker euro as sales missed Wall Street estimates in the second quarter, reports ABC News . Shares fell 3 percent in after-hours trading. Revenue rose 2 percent to $23.7 billio... More >
Google has bought Metaweb, a startup with a database of 12 million things -- people, movies, books, etc. -- that Google hopes will help it improve search, reports PaidContent.org . It notes ... More >
Nokia Siemens will pay $1.2 billion for Motorola's wireless network assets to help it expand in North America and Japan, according to a Bloomberg story in BusinessWeek. The deal gives Nokia... More >
Hewlett-Packard has told employees it will close its 100-acre campus in Cupertino, Calif., and will consolidate operations in Palo Alto, roughly 13 miles way, reports The San Jose Mercury News . &n... More >
AMD topped analyst expectations for a second consecutive quarter, though it still isn't in the black, reports Forbes . The chip maker posted earnings of 5 cents per share above the consensus foreca... More >
Google's revenue in the second quarter beat Wall Street estimates, but it's overall profit didn't. As a result, its share price dipped 4 percent in after-hours trading, according to the New York Da... More >
Texas Instruments is buying two chip factories in Japan in a move Bloomberg describes as "providing leeway to tailor production to fluctuations in demand." It did not disclose the price, but calle... More >
Gartner's second-quarter figures on PC shipments show big growth for Acer, Lenovo and Asus, reports The New York Times . The top five companies were HP, Acer, Dell, Lenovo and Asus. Acer, ho... More >
Japanese telco NTT is buying South African IT company Dimension Data for the U.S. equivalent of $3.2 billion in cash, reports Channel Register . In announcing the deal, the two companies ... More >
Finjan has sued five rival security companies for patent infringement, reports Computerworld . Symantec, McAfee, Webroot Software, Websense and Sophos may be forced to pay unspecified financial dam... More >
Facebook is facing a lawsuit that questions whether Mark Zuckerberg is the owner of the popular social networking site. According to Computerworld , Paul D. Ceglia alleges that he signed a co... More >
According to The Wall Street Journal , eBay is facing a $3.8 billion patent infringement suit filed by XPRT Ventures LLC. XPRT alleges that eBay unfairly swiped the idea and method of payme... More >
IBM is taking the blame for a massive outage at a Singapore bank, reports CIO.com . The problems kept DBS' IT systems offline for seven hours. IT Business Edge's Paul Mah, who lives in Singapore,... More >
According to an Associated Press article on USA Today, a federal judge has given the OK for a monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple and AT&T's mobile phone unit to move forward as a class actio... More >
Judge Legrome Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has approved a $16 million Comcast class-action settlement , according to Computerworld . Under the se... More >
Computerworld reports that patent holding company NTP has filed patent infringement suits against six makers of smartphones or related software. Among the companies being accused of infringement a... More >
Just when you thought it was over... Computerworld reports that SCO has filed an appeal in its epic battle with Novell. SCO wants the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider all rulings... More >
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit from a Canadian law firm over the alleged mishandling of users' private information and breach of privacy. According to Computerworld , Merchant Law... More >
In a surprising move, Google says China has renewed its license to operate its website in China, reports The Los Angeles Times . It quit automatically redirecting searches to Hong Kong an... More >
Nokia is selling its wireless modem business for $200 million to Renesas Electronics of Japan, reports The New York Times . The deal comes with some patents and 1,100 employees working on ... More >
HTC, the world's largest manufacturer of phones using Microsoft's mobile operating system in terms of shipments, largely has Google's Android platform to thank for exceeding Q2 expectations , report... More >
Though I tend to hate made-up words, I did enjoy the use of "cyberventilating" on InventorSpot to describe reaction to Google's acquisition of airfare data provider ITA Software. The $700 million d... More >
IBM will buy systems management software vendor BigFix for an undisclosed sum, according to Computerworld . It's another move to expand Big Blue's management software line for automation i... More >
Pricing software maker Versata has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission claiming SAP prevented it from selling its products to some of the world’s largest companies by refusing ... More >
According to InformationWeek , a couple of Maryland residents have filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging that the iPhone 4's defective antenna has caused them "emotional distress," as well as ann... More >
Suicide-plagued electronics manufacturer Foxconn plans to move production facilities from Shenzhen in north China to the Hebei province to cut costs, reports MarketWatch . It issued a profi... More >
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