For the first time in the company's history, Adobe Systems has generated over US$1 billion in revenue within a single fiscal quarter, it reported Monday.

Oracle's net income for the quarter ended Nov. 30 rose 28 percent from a year earlier to US$1.9 billion, buoyed by strong software license sales and an improving hardware business, the company said Thursday. Revenue was $8.6 billion, a jump of 47 percent.

Oracle wants SAP to pay it US$212 million in interest on top of the $1.3 billion awarded to it last month by a jury in the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, court papers show.

Tokyo Institute of Technology's newest supercomputer, Tsubame 2.0, proves that high-power computing can go hand-in-hand with energy efficiency. The new computer, which was inaugurated last week, is the second most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world and that's thanks to an administrator who was more concerned with the monthly electricity bill than the cost of the hardware.

A jury has awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in damages in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP.

SAP has admitted to the "massive and prolonged" infringement of Oracle's copyrights and should pay at least US$1.7 billion in damages, an Oracle attorney said Monday as the companies' corporate theft lawsuit entered its final stages.

A Sybase mobil üzenetkezelő infrastruktúrája továbbította az egy billiomodik üzenetet. A Sybase 365 üzenetkezelő hálózat ezzel fontos mérföldkőhöz ért, ha ezt a forgalmat egy évre vetítenénk le, azt kapnánk, mintha egy éven keresztül minden másodpercben 32.000 üzenet került volna továbbításra.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a controversial bill that would allow the government to seek court orders to shut down websites offering materials believed to infringe copyright.

Mark Hurd may have tipped off former contractor Jodie Fisher about Hewlett-Packard's pending US$13.9 billion EDS acquisition, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Friday.

Former Oracle President Charles Phillips testified in court Thursday that he would have been "terrified" to learn SAP had gained access to Oracle's software and that SAP would have had to pay "at least 3 or 4 billion dollars" to license it.

Facebook and eBay shared some tips this week for improving efficiency and cutting energy bills in data centers.

IBM said Monday that third-quarter net income rose 12 percent to US$3.6 billion, buoyed by strong performance in Brazil, Russia, India and China as well as solid sales of analytics software and services.

What does the world's wealthiest man do when he can't tweet? For Bill Gates, a trip to China this week has meant a jump to a Chinese micro-blogging platform.

Elképzelhető, hogy a Microsoft alapítójáról mintázták az Outlook 2010 névjegy-ikonját.

Nincs meglepetés: továbbra is a Microsoft alapítója amerikai leggazdagabb embere.

Expanding its business analytics offerings yet again, IBM is acquiring data warehouse appliance vendor Netezza for approximately US$1.7 billion in cash.

Oracle's first-quarter revenue jumped 48 percent over the same period last year to US$7.5 billion, the company reported Thursday. Net income was up 20 percent to $1.4 billion.

Hewlett-Packard will soon purchase security vendor ArcSight for $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

The bidding war between Dell and Hewlett-Packard for virtualized storage vendor 3PAR continued on Thursday, with Dell increasing its bid to US$24.30 per share, or about $1.6 billion.

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.