Protesting what it perceives as Oracle's undue control of Java, the Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat from the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, the organization announced Wednesday.

A loosely organized group of Internet hacktivists took down Visa's website Wednesday, after organizing a similar attack on MasterCard.

Facebook is in breach of South Korean data privacy laws and needs to do a better job of getting consent from users when getting their personal information, a South Korean regulator said Wednesday.

Google opened its Web application store for Chrome browser users on Tuesday, offering highly interactive, graphically rich applications from a variety of sources, including National Public Radio, Amazon.com, Electronic Arts and Sports Illustrated.

Unisys on Tuesday introduced a dedicated, hosted computing service that lets customers quickly add extra capacity for short-term use, a feature Unisys says is unique among what it calls "hosted private clouds."

Oracle on Thursday stepped up its efforts to rebuild Sun's hardware business, announcing a high-performance clustered database system that could turn up the competitive pressure on rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

U.S. Web users should be able to sign up for a do-not-track feature in browsers that would prohibit websites and advertising networks from following their movements online, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.

The European Commission is investigating allegations that Google has abused its dominant position in online search to promote its other services, such as price comparators, the Commission announced Tuesday.

Az Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ: EPIC), a középvállalati szereplők és a világ 1000 legnagyobb vállalata számára kialakított üzleti szoftver megoldások vezető szolgáltatója, a mai napon bejelentette az Epicor Retail Enterprise Selling Google Adaptert, amelynek segítségével a kiskereskedők meg tudják mutatni a fogyasztók számára, hogy a Google Termékkeresőben talált termék raktáron van-e náluk valamelyik közeli üzletükben.

Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman said Wednesday.

A New York-i Tőzsde történetében mindössze 350 cég ünnepelhette meg eddig az 50. évet a parketten, és most az Avnet is belép ebbe a patinás klubba.

Dell on Thursday reported a growth in profits and revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2011, driven by strong demand for the company's commercial products.

Research In Motion has not agreed to turn over corporate data sent to and from BlackBerry devices to the Indian government, contrary to reports that surfaced on Wednesday, RIM said.

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Az Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ: EPIC), a középpiaci szereplők és a világ 1000 legnagyobb vállalata számára kialakított vállalati szoftveres megoldások vezető szolgáltatója, a mai napon közzétette a 2010. szeptember 30-án lezárult harmadik negyedévre vonatkozó pénzügyi eredményeit.

Third parties, not Google, would be liable for any Java copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, according to a filing the vendor made Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Some people speculated that Mark Hurd joined Oracle to get back at his former employer, Hewlett-Packard, but on Thursday he described other reasons for taking the job.

Cisco Systems posted gains in both profit and revenue on Wednesday for its fiscal first quarter that ended Oct. 30, despite what it called "a challenging economic environment."

The market for microprocessors, the chips that act as calculating engines inside PCs, servers, laptops and other gadgets, slowed during the third quarter as consumer demand slackened, market researcher IDC said Thursday.

Oracle's potential damages in its corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP have been reduced by US$500 million following an order from Judge Phyllis Hamilton, SAP said on Tuesday.