Sun Microsystems acquired microprocessor startup Montalvo Systems for an undisclosed sum, the company confirmed Thursday.

Az Alerant Informatikai Zrt. és BCA Hungary új szolgáltatása, a SOA Start segítségével a nagyvállalatok saját környezetükre vonatkozóan vizsgálhatják meg egy lehetséges szolgáltatásorientált architektúra kialakításának céljait, ráfordítási igényét, s az induláshoz testreszabott SOA-bevezetési koncepciót dolgozhatnak ki.

With less than two weeks to go before the start of the H-1B visa rush, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) released rules Wednesday to prevent applicants from trying to unfairly boost their odds in the expected visa lottery.

A MÁV-START és a MÁV INFORMATIKA Zrt. az Utazás 2008 kiállításon közös standon mutatta be a nagyközönségnek azt a rendszert és a hozzá tartozó automatát, amelyen keresztül online vásárolható vasúti menetjegy. Az érdeklődők ki is próbálhatták a standon felállított jegykiadó automatát.

IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV's main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components.

The One Laptop Per Child project suffered a blow this week, with Chief Technology Officer Mary Lou Jepsen quitting the nonprofit to start a for-profit company to commercialize technology she invented with OLPC.

Sony Corp. has begun production of flat-panel televisions at a new Ľ11 billion (US$93.6 million) plant in Slovakia as demand for thin TVs is increasing in Europe.

In a move to jump-start growth in the business intelligence arena, SAP AG will acquire Business Objects SA for about ?4.8 billion (US$6.78 billion).

IBM Corp. released SOA products for integrating software applications and improving business processes, and said more customers are starting to understand the SOA concept.

Az IBM szuperszámítógépének második nemzedékét képviselő Blue Gene/P megháromszorozza elődje, a jelenlegi csúcstartó teljesítményét.

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday started limited beta offerings of Windows Live file and photo sharing services.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has tried and failed to develop spectrum auctions that allow startup companies to get into the mobile service provider industry but now Google thinks it has a better idea.

Nokia Corp. has started shipping its N95 mobile phone in Europe and Asia, the first in an expected series of devices from the Finnish company with built-in GPS (global positioning system) capabilities.

First-week retail sales of Office 2007 more than doubled the purchases of Office 2003 in the week after its launch in October 2003, according to market research firm NPD Group Inc.

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday unveiled more discounts and upgrade options for Windows Vista aimed at jump-starting sales of the operating system.

A veteran Vallejo, Calif., fire investigator said a cell phone that was left on caught fire in a sleeping man's pocket, causing a fire that critically burned the man and heavily damaged his apartment.

Sony Corp. plans to launch an online video download service next year, according to reports in both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal newspapers.

Internet phone service provider Skype Ltd. plans to start charging U.S. and Canadian users US$29.95 per year for unlimited calls to regular phones in both countries, as the end of a free trial offer looms.

Intel Corp. has started to produce samples of a quad-core processor called Penryn that offers faster clock speeds and larger cache sizes, an executive said Thursday.

Sony Corp. will soon start selling a small GPS (global positioning system) unit that can be used to add location information to digital pictures, the company said Wednesday.