Google's revenue and profits grew in the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2009, and exceeded Wall Street's expectations, capping a year in which the search company did well despite the global economic turmoil.

Gartner has revised its outlook for worldwide IT spending this year, predicting the industry as a whole will see 4.6 percent growth to $3.4 trillion, up from its previous prediction of 3.3 percent growth, according to its latest figures released Thursday.

The European Commission granted Oracle an unconditional approval to take over Sun Microsystems on Thursday, following a controversial and drawn out examination of the deal.

Samsung will invest $200 million in Rambus stock and pay around $700 million over the next five years.

The intrusion isn't seen as an inside job but China staff will be scrutinized.

China has restored mobile text message services in a Western province where they were suspended for months following unrest. Limited Internet access is also returning to the region.

Intel's net income hits US$2.3 billion, which is up 875 percent.

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will invest US$250 million over three years on a product integration strategy meant to "significantly simplify" technology deployments for companies of all sizes, they said Wednesday.

A Progress Software hétfőn jelentette be, hogy közel 49 millió dolláros áron felvásárolta a BPM-megoldásokat szállító Savviont. Az IBM a piaci konkurens Lombardi Software-re vetett szemet.

A Microsoft megteremtette a technikai lehetőségét a MySQL-SQL Server migrációnak, így már csak idő és pénz kérdése, hány felhasználót tud elcsábítani a MySQL-től, amennyiben az Oracle megszerzi a Sun Microsystems ingyenes, nyílt forráskódú adatbázisát.

Suspect initially claimed that his company and clients were victims of another's actions.

A webforgalmat figyelő Net Applications adatai szerint az év végén a Windows 7 és a mobil operációs rendszerek tortaszelete nőtt a leglátványosabban.

A U.S. representative plans to introduce legislation to prohibit the kind of deal proposed.

Apple plans to buy mobile ad company Quattro Wireless for $275 million, a blog owned by the The Wall Street Journal said Monday, a move that would intensify Apple's growing competition with Google.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has decided to investigate separate complaints made against Sharp and Research In Motion (RIM) that each allege the companies are infringing patents held by the complainants.

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has closed an antitrust investigation of the flash memory industry, concluding that there is no evidence of a pricing cartel.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in taking the first step toward creating net neutrality rules earlier this year, has reignited a contentious debate about government regulation of the Internet.

Next year will be challenging for Intel as it fends off accusations of monopolistic behavior while trying to establish a larger presence in the mobile and graphics segments.

Mostantól a biztonsági szoftvereket gyártó Lumension Security, Inc. termékei is rendelhetők a központosított közbeszerzésben.

Chip designer Broadcom plans to pay US$160.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over stock option accounting practices commonly called backdating after hundreds of companies were forced to restate earnings a few years ago due to the practice.