While worldwide computer chip sales have been relatively strong so far during 2010, analysts warn that next year's sales totals could prove disappointing.

As Ray Ozzie prepares to leave Microsoft, he's offering a new five-year plan for the company that eschews the current PC-centric world, just as he made his mark five years ago issuing a call to arms away from software products toward cloud computing.

SAP is seeking a court order to prevent Oracle's lawyers from making public statements about the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, fearing the talk will influence potential jurors and prevent SAP from getting a fair trial, according to an SAP motion filed on Friday.

Yahoo's revenue grew slightly in the third quarter, even though the online advertising market has rebounded this year, as the Internet pioneer's ability to turn its fortunes around remains in question.

The next major version of OS X took center stage at an Apple press event Wednesday, but it wasn?t the only Mac-centric news to come out of Cupertino. In addition to previewing Mac OS X 10.7?which Apple calls ?Lion??the company also released an updated version of iLife, rolled out a desktop version of its FaceTime video-conferencing application, and revamped its MacBook Air lineup. Apple CEO Steve Jobs called Mac OS X Lion the ?entrée? of Wednesday?s press event, though the company didn?t offer extensive information about its next major OS X update. Lion is slated to arrive in summer 2011.

Jim Balsillie az Apple vezérigazgatójának hétfői, a cég üzleti eredményeit bemutató sajtótájékoztatóján elhangzottakra reagálva azt mondta, Steve Jobs és munkatársai ?kommunikációs torzítómezőt? hoztak létre.

Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie has accused Apple of creating a "distortion field" and spreading half-truths, but he predicted that even Apple fans will soon grow tired of its stories.

Internet shopping mall operator Rakuten has asked Japan's Fair Trade Commission to examine an Internet search deal between Yahoo Japan and Google, it said Wednesday.

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect and the executive responsible for pushing the company into the cloud, plans to step down, Microsoft said on Monday.

The global body in charge of allocating Internet addresses expects to hand out the final blocks of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses to regional registrars early next year, it said Monday.

Google reported strong increases in profit and revenue in the third quarter, during which the company had good results in both its core and emerging businesses.

AOL is exploring the idea of teaming up with a number of investment firms to make a bid on Yahoo, its much-larger Internet rival, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

IBM has refreshed its CloudBurst products for building a virtualized private cloud, adding configurations based on its Power7 processor on top of the x86-based systems it already offered.

Intel reported an increase in quarterly profits on Tuesday, brushing off weakness in the consumer market and predicting "healthy worldwide demand for computing products" moving forward.

Google is continuing to back green energy projects, this time investing in the construction of a backbone that will carry energy produced by wind turbines off the East Coast back to shore.

The iPad and Kindle need to be reconsidered in order for e-reader devices to maintain popularity and relevance, an Australian web designer has warned.

Microsoft will unveil devices running its new Windows Phone 7 operating system for the first time Monday at an event in New York that some experts predict will be a make-or-break product launch.

Microsoft has acquired AVIcode, a private Baltimore-based company that offers application monitoring for the .NET Framework, the companies announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The chief executive officers of Microsoft and Adobe met recently to discuss how best to deal with their common foe -- Apple -- and whether a Microsoft buyout of Adobe might be in the cards, The New York Times reported Thursday.

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