Whether they are cloud service outages or natural disasters, cloud computing can be both a nightmare or a savior to your IT organization: either it halts your business operation or loses your data, or it allows you to continue operate your business as workloads are switched to or backed up by physically safer data centers.

The city of Chongqing wants to build an IT hub free of China's Internet censorship.

The cloud communications and collaboration suite is available in 40 markets globally.

In a legal filing, Oracle defends its legal expert on damages in the Java-Android lawsuit.

The hacking group LulzSec claims to have disbanded.

Last year, he helped obtain 120,000 iPad users' e-mail addresses and other information

An Oracle expert estimated that Google owes up to $6.1 billion for its use of Java in Android.

The company is showing off apps that developers built after getting access to the SDK yesterday.

The deal will expand Ericsson's presence in North America and in network optimization systems.

The IMF is said to have suffered a 'very major breach,' but it's unclear what data was accessed.

IBM has made what it claims is the first graphene-based integrated circuit, using many of the same techniques now used to produce silicon circuits. The technique could one day be used to produce superior wireless communication devices and less-expensive displays.

Microsoft showed the next version of its Windows OS at a press event in Taipei on Thursday, unveiling a completely new tile-based interface that it hopes will be better suited for the emerging world of tablet PCs.

Marius Haas, who led Hewlett-Packard's networking business through the 3Com acquisition that made it a broader competitor to Cisco Systems, is leaving the company for investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

A U.S. Senate committee has unanimously approved a controversial bill that would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders requiring search engines and Internet service providers to stop sending traffic to websites accused of infringing copyright.

PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the area of mobile payments and point-of-sale strategies.

Software AG has entered into an agreement to acquire Terracotta, which will allow the software vendor to develop more advanced cloud services and increase the performance and scalability of its business software management tools using Terracotta's in-memory technology for Java, it said.

A Verbatim az optikai adathordozó szektorban bemutatja új AZO technológiával gyártott 6x BD-R LTH típusú Blu-ray lemezét, amely 25 GB tárolókapacitást kínál és 6x-os sebességgel írható. A lemez hamarosan belső gyűrűig nyomtatható felülettel ellátott változatban is kapható lesz. Az új Verbatim BD-R LTH típusú 25GB 6x Blu-ray lemez, ami alkalmas nagyfelbontású (HD) filmek felvételére, nagy mennyiségű adat tárolására és fényképek vagy videók hosszú élettartamú archiválására, már megvásárolható.

U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble might have found a buyer. On Thursday the maker of the Nook e-reader said it has received an acquisition proposal from media conglomerate Liberty Media.

SAP is preparing to release a major revamp of its software for EPM (enterprise performance management), a subset of BI (business intelligence) that focuses on areas such as budgeting, planning and compliance, the company announced Monday in conjunction with the annual Sapphire conference in Orlando.

Global technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals grew during the first quarter (Q1) of 2011, according to Ernst & Young's quarterly report, Global Technology M&A Update, January - March 2011.