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.

IBM will soon offer software development and testing services through its public cloud, adding to a private cloud option launched in June 2009, the company said Tuesday.

The Microsoft search and map services will be put on Android phones in China first.

Lezárult a felvásárlási ügylet a Xerox Corporation és az Affiliated Computer Services között. A tranzakciónak köszönhetően a Xerox a világ vezető dokumentum- és üzletifolyamat-szolgáltatójává vált, 22 milliárd dollárnyi üzleti tőkével.

Hewlett-Packard will distribute a music service and software developed by Omnifone on over a dozen of its computer models sold in ten European nations, Omnifone said Monday.

China has restored mobile text message services in a Western province where they were suspended for months following unrest. Limited Internet access is also returning to the region.

Apple appears to have blocked iPhone applications related to the Dalai Lama in its China App Store, making it the latest U.S. technology company to censor its services in China.

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Microsoft's Juku service in China did indeed steal code from Plurk, a popular Twitter rival in Asia, the software giant admitted on Tuesday.

Mobile operator TeliaSonera has launched the world's first commercial LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks, in the central parts of Stockholm and Oslo, it said on Monday.

For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says.

SAP's attempt to convince users that its Enterprise Support service provides enough value to justify a higher price tag may drag on well into 2010.

Users of Facebook and Yahoo will find more ways to link their actions on those sites next year, as Yahoo prepares what it calls a deep integration of Facebook with services like Yahoo Mail and Yahoo News.