Microsoft filed patent infringement complaints against Motorola and its Android phones in the International Trade Commission and U.S. federal court Friday, indicating that the software giant may hope to use its strong patent position as one way to set its mobile software apart from the competition.

A Venezuelan man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for stealing and then reselling more than 10 million minutes of Internet phone service.

Google on Friday said that the Texas Attorney General's Office is conducting an antitrust review of the search giant, following a similar investigation launched in Europe earlier this year.

Storage technology firm 3PAR confirmed late Friday that its board has accepted Hewlett-Packard's acqusition offer of $30 per share, ending more than a week of competitive bidding with Dell.

An Apple manager with responsibilities for the company's contract manufacturing in Asia was arrested Friday and charged with accepting kickbacks.

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.

Google on Friday said it acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains a database of information that it offers to website operators wishing to aggregate content about specific topics on their sites.

EMC's announcement this week of plans to purchase data warehousing vendor Greenplum represents a harbinger of things to come for that market, as well as related areas like BI (business intelligence) and data integration, according to some analysts.

The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to investigate Apple based on a complaint filed by handset maker HTC, the Commission said on Friday.

Az Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálatnál ma helyezték üzembe azt az IBM iDataPlex clustert, amellyel az eddigi 7 régió helyett 174 kistérségre lehet majd gyorsabb és pontosabb vészjelzést kiadni.

Apple's success in mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad could spill over into the TV segment if the company decides to make a push for devices with larger screens, analysts said on Friday.

Microsoft acknowledged on Friday that it used an inaccurate number to represent research company IDC's sales forecast for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform.

Toshiba managed to recover from deep losses of two years ago and moved close to break-even in the year to March, it said Friday. The company reported smaller losses or better profits at all of its key business units despite an across-the-board drop in sales.

Microsoft should add a basic PDF viewer to Windows to help protect users from the spike in attacks exploiting bugs in Adobe's Reader, a security researcher said Friday.

The former president of Chi Mei Optoelectronics has agreed to pay a fine and go to jail for his role in a scheme to fix prices for TFT-LCDs (thin-film transistor-liquid crystal displays), the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.

Fenntarthatósági szoftverben éllovas partnerét veszi meg az SAP Az SAP AG bejelentette, hogy felvásárolja a német Technidata AG-t, mely vezető szállító a fenntarthatóságot szolgáló, egészség, biztonság-és környezetvédelmi (EHS) szoftvermegoldások terén. Az akvizícióval az SAP kiterjeszti termékportfólióját főként a termékbiztonság, az egészség-és biztonság, valamint az emisszió menedzsment szegmenseiben.

Jogsértő összehasonlító reklámokat tett közzé két távközlési szolgáltató, a FiberNet Zrt. és a ViDaNet Zrt. - állapította meg a Gazdasági Versenyhivatal (GVH). A két vállalkozás elhallgatta a versenytársai által kínált internetcsomagok az övénél kedvezőbb tulajdonságait. A versenyhatóság összesen 2,5 millió forint bírságot szabott ki.

Advanced Micro Devices is trying to build momentum for its laptop chips in an attempt to improve its weak market position and gain ground on rival Intel, analysts said on Friday.

Michael Abbott, the head of Palm's software and services team, will leave the company at the end of next week, according to a regulatory filing Palm made on Friday.

A PRIMERGY RX600 S5 és BX960 S1 megbízható teljesítményt nyújt a vertikális skálázhatóságot igénylő workloadokon.