Police in South Korea said they had raided Google's Korea head office in Seoul on Tuesday on suspicion that the subsidiary of the search engine company had illegally collected location data from application subscribers.

The widely publicized hack of Sony's computer networks is worse than previously thought, also affecting 24.6 million Sony Online Entertainment network accounts.

Oracle will have to wait a bit longer to get its hands on the US$1.3 billion awarded to it last year by a jury in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP.

The ultimate fee for the data breach last month at email service provider Epsilon could reach as high as $4 billion, depending on what becomes of the data that was stolen, according to a cyber-risk advisory firm.

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Representatives from both Apple and Google will testify at a Congressional hearing next month on consumer privacy and smartphones , two U.S. senators confirmed on Thursday.

CnturyLink has agreed to buy hosting company Savvis for about US$2.5 billion in cash and shares, the companies announced Wednesday.

Lawson Software has agreed to be purchased by Infor affiliate GGC Software Holdings for roughly US$2 billion, the company announced Tuesday.

Google will allow companies to sign up users for its paid Apps for Business hosted collaboration and communication suite on a month-to-month basis, without having to commit them to an annual contract.

Minnesota Senator Al Franken and the attorney general of Illinois have separately pressed Apple and Google to provide more information about the location data they collect about their end users.

While Microsoft has not announced the release date, or even the official name, of its follow-up to Windows 7, an early pre-beta version of the OS has surfaced on the Internet, the second version to appear within a month.

A Smartmobil konferencián az év alkalmazása lett a LogMeIn Ignition iOS-re készített verzója. A magyar start-upként indult, és fejlesztőközpontjait ma is Magyarországon üzemeltető LogMeIn nagy sikerű appja nemcsak hazánkban sikeres: 2010-ben az év legnagyobb bevételt generáló, nem az Apple által fejlesztett appja lett, illetve bekerült az Apple Hall of Fame-jébe is.

Intel reported growth in revenue and income for the first quarter of 2011, driven by the addition of new products and strength in the enterprise market.

IBM on Tuesday reported quarterly sales growth across all its major divisions and raised its earnings outlook for the full year, the latest sign that business spending in the IT sector continues to recover.

Az IT Factory hallgatói a NetAcademia és a BalaBit együttműködésének értelmében most ingyen juthatnak hozzá a syslog-ng Premium Edition változatához.

Oracle announced Friday that it will no longer sell a commercial version of the Open Office productivity suite, and that the open-source OpenOffice.org will be transitioned to "a purely community-based open-source project."

Longtime partners Huawei Technologies and Motorola Solutions have agreed to settle trade-secrets lawsuits against each other, the companies announced.

Nokia launched an updated version of its Symbian^3 mobile operating system on Tuesday, along with two phones running the software, the X7 and the E6.

A New York man who claims he's entitled to a sizable stake in Facebook has amended his initial complaint, adjusting his ownership claim and providing additional documents, including e-mails he allegedly exchanged with Mark Zuckerberg.

Apple will not launch the iPad 3 in 2011, though it is working on a next-generation iPad that will have a better screen resolution than the iPad 2.