Cisco is reportedly shutting down during the year-end holiday season to save money, the first time it has done so in its history.

Fujitsu is in talks to sell its hard-disk drive business to Western Digital, according to a report in the Thursday morning edition of the Nikkei business daily.

Ingyenessé vált a Crystal Reports szoftver alapverziója, mellyel az SAP Business One-felhasználók bővíthetik rendszerüket.

A Business Objects, SAP vállalat bejelentette, hogy globálisan, minden új és meglévő SAPŽ Business One felhasználó számára ingyenesen elérhetővé vált a Crystal ReportsŽ szoftver alapverziója. A Crystal Reports ezen verziójával az üzleti felhasználók könnyebben készíthetnek riportokat, és vizuális formában mutathatnak be adatokat egyetlen, integrált rendszer használatával. A szoftver egy példánya minden SAP Business One ügyfél számára elérhető, aki rendelkezik SAP karbantartási szerződéssel.

Advanced Micro Devices has replaced Hector Ruiz with Dirk Meyer as its CEO, as the company reported its seventh consecutive quarterly net loss on Thursday.

Microsoft is meeting with AOL executives Wednesday to talk about the two companies combining AOL and Microsoft's online division, according to a news report.

Delivery of TV programming over Internet Protocol connections (IPTV) is growing at rapid pace, with the number of subscribers more than doubling for the second year running, according to a report from industry organization The Broadband Forum.

„Két év múlva elfelejthetjük a spameket!” – jelentette ki 2004-ben Bill Gates. Azóta a két év bőven letelt, Bill Gates június 27-én otthagyta a napi munkát a Microsoftnál, a spam-kérdés pedig messze nem oldódott meg.

Two U.S. Congressmen on Wednesday accused China of hacking their office computers, possibly compromising information on Chinese dissidents, the Congressmen and news reports said.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn will proceed with his plan to replace Yahoo's entire board in an effort to force the company to reopen merger negotiations with Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

China has proclaimed itself the world's largest Internet market, with 221 million Internet users, state media reported Thursday.

For the third year in a row, Google Inc. topped the list of the 100 most powerful brands in the world, beating out Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc., according to a report (download PDF) released Monday by market research firm Millward Brown Optimor.

Yahoo is in talks with Time Warner on a deal to combine Internet operations with AOL, while News Corp. is in talks with Microsoft to jointly bid for Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Time Warner Cable and Comcast are negotiating a deal to invest in a new nationwide WiMAX company that would be jointly operated by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

Microsoft will release Windows XP Service Pack 3 during the second half of April, according to a report from a Web site that has correctly predicted recent Windows ship dates.

Microsoft will release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on Tuesday to a wider audience, according to information posted on Amazon.com and reports from a Web site that correctly called SP1's ship date last month.

Sony reported record sales and net profit for the last three months of the fiscal year on the back of strong sales in its core electronics division, it said Thursday.

A new report from Forrester Research declares that the wave of mega-acquisitions in the software industry is over for now, though big vendors will continue to snap up smaller firms as they round out their portfolios.

SAP reported a 10 percent rise in revenue for the fourth quarter, but earnings fell 6 percent compared to a year earlier, dragged down in part by the cost of launching Business ByDesign, a new offering for the mid-market, the company said Wednesday.

Apple reported strong quarterly earnings on Tuesday, boosted by record Macintosh computer and iPhone sales.