While many Oracle customers are interested in running IT services on private clouds, most are still in the early stages of development, a new study from the Independent Oracle Users Group has found.

Microsoft has started letting developers build and release applications for Windows Phone 7 using Visual Basic, potentially opening the door to more applications on the new smartphone platform.

China will investigate and prosecute Google next July if the search engine company does not acquire the necessary state license to operate its Google Maps service in the country, according to the government.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

A 250 ezer titkos táviratnak csak egy része publikus, de a botrányhoz már ennyi is elég. Amerika szerint Kína áll a Google elleni támadások mögött.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

Hálózati hiba okozott problémát a Telenor Magyarország mobilhálózatán kedden a déli órákban. Emiatt a cég egyes ügyfelei elérhetetlenek voltak, és ők maguk sem tudtak hívást kezdeményezni, valamint a mobilinternet szolgálatással is gondok adódtak. Mostanra a hibát elhárították, a távközlési cég ügyfelei újból tudnak telefonálni.

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.

Speaking publicly for the first time since he was appointed CEO of Hewlett-Packard in late September, Leo Apotheker on Monday said that HP will focus more on software and that he still has some learning to do about the company.

A Reader X a sandbox technológiával jóval több támadásnak képes ellenállni, mint elődei.

A UPC Magyarország Kft. bejelentette, hogy megállapodást írt alá az Invitel Holding S/A leányvállalatával, a Magyar Telecom B.V.-vel az ország negyedik legnagyobb kábelszolgáltatója, a Fibernet Kommunikációs Zrt. kábeltelevíziós hálózatai egyharmadának a megvásárlásáról. Bejelentették azt is, hogy a Magyar Telecom B.V. megállapodást írt alá a Fibernet egyedüli tulajdonosa, a Fibernet Tanácsadó Kft. teljes törzstőkéjének megvételéről is.

Strong earnings from Dell and Salesforce.com, a positive report on online ad spending and two Internet IPOs this week highlighted underlying strength in the tech sector despite worries about the economy.

Research In Motion has not agreed to turn over corporate data sent to and from BlackBerry devices to the Indian government, contrary to reports that surfaced on Wednesday, RIM said.

When it comes to power-efficient computing, CPUs are weighed down by too many legacy features to outperform GPUs (graphics processing units) in executing common tasks in parallel, said the chief scientist for the GPU vendor Nvidia.

A San Ramon, California, man is facing charges he stole valuable technology from his former employer in hopes of building competitive location-aware products.

Windows HPC Server customers will soon be able to run high-performance computing workloads on Windows Azure, Microsoft is announcing at this week's SC10 supercomputing conference in New Orleans.

Intel has been working with several industry experts to improve the safety of football helmets, including an idea to put its tiny Atom microprocessors inside football helmets to measure and feed real-time impact data to medical personnel on the sidelines of a game.

Negotiators working on a controversial international copyright-enforcement agreement have finalized the language in the proposed pact, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Monday.

Misys is buying fellow financial services software vendor Sophis for ?435 million (US$595 million), creating a company with products for both buy-side and sell-side purposes, the company announced Friday. The deal is expected to close before the end of February.

Former chief iPhone engineer Mark Papermaster has joined Cisco Systems as the head of its switching chip division.