A nyomtatott sajtó sorsának kérdése évek óta a levegően lóg, s az okostelefonok és táblagépek elterjedése következtében hordozhatóvá váló digitális tartalmak elterjedése csak tovább növeli a bizonytalanságot: egyelőre csak találgathajuk, hogy forradalomra, lassú átmenetre vagy hosszabb távon békés egymás mellett élésre számíthatunk. Egy biztos azonban: a zsebre rakható internet jelenségét a kiadók nemigen vehetik félvállról.

Rambus on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire security technology company Cryptography Research (CRI) for US$342.5 million in a cash and stock deal. The move could help the company address interest among chip makers to add security features on hardware.

Chip maker Broadcom said Sunday that it will pay US$41.9 million for SC Square, a move that will bring expertise in smart-card security to the Irvine, California, architect of silicon for communications equipment.

A környezettudatosság és a zöld megoldások előtérbe kerülése az utóbbi időben vitathatatlan. A tudatos környezetvédelem mellett ma már az IT szektor sem mehet el szó nélkül. Az elvárások és előírások egyre szigorúbbak, a megoldás szükségessége pedig egyre égetőbb.

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) and software giant Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new pact under which the two companies will partner to offer a variety of Bing related services to BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook tablet users. Bing is Microsoft's Web search offering, and it's one of the top three search engines along with Google and Yahoo Search, according to Hitwise.

Az Apache Software Foundation képviselőit az Oracle jogászai szeretnék kifaggatni a Google ellen indított Java szabadalmakkal kapcsolatos perben.

Minnesota Senator Al Franken and the attorney general of Illinois have separately pressed Apple and Google to provide more information about the location data they collect about their end users.

The U.S. Department of Justice will require Google to develop and license travel software to competitors as a condition of its US$700 million acquisition of travel software maker ITA Software.

Microsoft and Toyota plan to use Windows Azure, the software giant's cloud offering, to build a telematics service that will initially serve people who have the car maker's electric and plug-in hybrid cars.

SugarCRM has acquired iExtensions, which makes customer relationship management (CRM) software for IBM Lotus Notes users, in a bid to attract more enterprise customers and compete better against bigger rivals like Salesforce.com and Microsoft.

Oracle customers this week expressed concern about the effort and cost of upgrading IT infrastructures after the software maker said it would stop development for Intel's Itanium chip architecture.

Microsoft has agreed to pay $7.5 million to purchase a block of 666,624 IPv4 addresses from bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker Nortel in a move that some see as a signal of the increasing value of IPv4 addresses.

A szoftvergyártó szerint a könyvkiadó Android operációs rendszerre fejlesztett Nook e-olvasója általuk bejegyzett szabadalmakat sért.

AT&T will buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and stock, easily making AT&T the nation's largest wireless carrier, ahead of top-ranked competitor Verizon Wireless and reducing the number of major national wireless carriers from four to three.

China is blocking Gmail in the country with methods that make it look as if the access problems lie with Google, said the search engine giant on Monday.

Oracle customers on a range of significant releases have a choice to make this year: Upgrade, or potentially pay more for support.

VMware said on Tuesday it had acquired WaveMaker, the creator of open-source software that lets non-developers build Java Web applications.

YouTube has acquired web video production startup Next New Networks to help contributors to YouTube make successful videos.

Later this year, Oracle will begin requiring people interested in gaining Java and Solaris certifications to attend "hands-on" training courses, at an additional cost of thousands of dollars.

Intel has completed its US$7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee, the chip maker announced on Monday.