A little more than a year after the service was launched, Google is pulling the plug on its Google Wave social-networking service, the company said Wednesday.

Despite fears caused by the European debt crisis, spending on technology products and services is set to continue growing around the world, although the pace of growth in Europe overall will be lower, Forrester Research said in a report released Tuesday.

Microsoft is giving its partners tools that could help drive more business to its cloud-based services.

IBM unveiled on Tuesday a new package of pre-integrated software applications, called the Financial Markets Industry Framework, configured for the financial services market.

WiMax service provider Clearwire on Thursday introduced its first 4G/3G modem that works with Mac laptops, as well as its first Wi-Fi hotspots with integrated 4G or 4G/3G radios.

Twitter is recovering from an unspecified technical problem that affected the microblogging service's main site and its APIs (application programming interfaces) for about one hour late Tuesday morning.

A Procter & Gamble (P&G) munkatársai hamarosan közvetlenül okostelefonjukról nyomtathatják ki e-mailjeiket, prezentációikat és üzleti dokumentumaikat. A Xerox vállalati nyomtatási szolgáltatásokkal (Enterprise Print Services, EPS) kapcsolatos stratégiájának részeként született mobil nyomtatási megoldással, a munkafolyamatok mobilitását, fenntarthatóságát és a termelékenység további erősítését kívánja elősegíteni.

Hewlett-Packard reported solid results for its second quarter as strong growth in PC and x86 server sales helped offset an unremarkable quarter for its services business.

CIOs and IT managers know they must address concerns like security, compliance, service levels and end-user resistance when moving to cloud-based enterprise software, but they must not overlook a critical area: the feelings of their IT staffers.

EMC chief executive Joe Tucci believes IT customers will have their choice from hundreds of viable cloud computing service, and that the cloud market will not be dominated by a small group of vendors, he said at the EMC World conference in Boston Monday.

A bug allowed Facebook users to view their friends' chat sessions on the site, prompting the social-networking company to disable its internal instant-messaging service. The bug also let people see their friends' pending friend requests.

VMware and Salesforce.com are jointly developing a cloud computing service called VMforce designed for hosting Java applications, executives from the two companies said Tuesday.

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.

Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams shared some long-awaited usage figures for the service and sought to assure developers that Twitter is becoming a stable platform for building applications, as they kicked off the first-ever developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday.

Twitter on Tuesday introduced a new service called Promoted Tweets, which will let companies send ads in the form of ordinary messages, according to a blog posted by co-founder Biz Stone.

The news comes after Google last week snubbed the Chinese government over censorship.

China did not immediately block any Google sites after the company stopped censoring search results.

iSoft has secured a two-year $9.8 million contract extension from the UK's NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS).

Az Orange Business Services és a Sybase közt létrejött együttműködés alapján az Orange átfogó mobil eszközmenedzsmentet szolgáltatásba kezd vállalati ügyfelek részére világszerte. A szolgáltatás keretében a cégek platform függetlenül mobilbiztonságot és távmenedzsmentet biztosíthatnak saját eszközparkjukon.

It could be confused with Integra Telecom's Nexus service, the patent and trademark office said.