Google continues to aggressively pursue social-networking capabilities, this time with the acquisition of Angstro.

Google's real-time search engine, which indexes and serves up status updates, messages and other public content from sites like Twitter and Facebook, now has its own Web address and contains new filtering capabilities.

A védelmi megoldások piacán jelentős növekedésre számít a Gartner.

Intel considered acquiring either Symantec or McAfee for years before it announced last week that it would buy the latter, former Intel senior vice president Pat Gelsinger said on Thursday.

A keresőcég internetes telefonszolgáltatást indít. A Google Voice felhasználói saját Gmail-fiókjukon keresztül kezdeményezhetnek és fogadhatnak majd hívásokat.

Motorola appears ready to do more development on top of Android, with its acquisition of 280 North, a company that develops Web applications.

Ontario alapokon vékonyabb netbookok készülhetnek, amelyek az integrált GPU-nak köszönhetően akár 1080p felbontású videók lejátszására is alkalmasak lehetnek majd.

Federal agents found more than US$150,000 in cash when they searched the house of Apple manager Paul Devine earlier this month, prosecutors said in court Monday.

Hewlett-Packard has offered to buy 3PAR, a vendor of virtualized storage systems, for US$1.6 billion in cash, topping a bid of $1.15 billion made by Dell last Monday.

Google has acquired Like.com, which offers a visual search engine for retail products, a deal aimed at boosting Google's shopping search capabilities and services like its Products engine.

Intel said Thursday it plans to acquire security vendor McAfee in a cash deal valued at about $7.68 billion and aimed at enhancing the chip maker's mobile strategy.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the company's latest creation, a foray into the world of location-based services called Facebook Places.

A Facebook Places érkezése alaposan felforgathatja a lokalizáció-alapú alkalmazások piacát. A FourSquare és Gowalla ugyanis erős versenytársat kapott.

Oracle appears set to deliver more information than ever before about its long-awaited Fusion Applications at the OpenWorld conference in September, with more than 30 sessions listed as of Tuesday.

As it starts transitioning to Microsoft's Bing search engine this week, Yahoo has decided to drop Search Monkey, a developer platform designed to let external coders create applications that enhance Yahoo search results.

Dell on Monday announced it has agreed to acquire virtualized storage provider 3PAR for about US$1.15 billion, a move that will boost its capabilities for building public and private cloud computing environments. The deal is expected to close later this year.

Analysts are developing a short list of possible candidates to replace former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned Friday. But it's worth noting that Hurd's name didn't come up often, if at all, as a contender in 2005, when he was tapped for the HP job.

Cisco Systems revenue and profit both grew significantly in the company's fiscal fourth quarter that ended in July, the company announced on Wednesday.

Google and Verizon Communications have released a proposal that would give the U.S. Federal Communications Commission limited power to enforce network neutrality rules, including levying fines up to US$2 million for violations by broadband providers.

Az FCC illetékesei szerint a szélessávú szolgáltatókkal és más partnerekkel folytatott tárgyalások eddig nem hozták meg a kívánt eredményt.