Oracle plans to launch its long-awaited Fusion Applications in 2010, and they will be deployable both on-premises and as SaaS (software as a service), CEO Larry Ellison said Wednesday during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.

Acer overtook Dell as the world's second-largest computer vendor during the third quarter, as the PC market showed signs of coming back to life, IDC said on Wednesday.

Corporate security and network administrators face a "nightmare" task just trying to figure out what to patch and what to let slide after Microsoft issued its biggest-ever batch of updates today, researchers argued.

Cisco Tuesday announced its second multibillion dollar deal this month: a definitive agreement to acquire Starent Networks, a provider of IP-based mobile infrastructure for carriers, for about $2.9 billion.

Nvidia has delayed the development of chipsets that work with Intel's microprocessors, citing "unfair business tactics" employed by Intel, the company said on Thursday.

Despite Google's phenomenal growth, the Internet search giant does not appear to be worried about taking on too many projects, judging from comments made at a media roundtable Wednesday with company cofounder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt.

Wednesday's collapse of the on-again, off-again, US$23 billion deal between South Africa's MTN and India's Bharti Airtel -- which occurred after the complex proposal attracted much intervention from political leaders and unions -- had as much to do with matters of national pride and politics as anything else.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put on his sales hat Tuesday and made a case for why businesses should upgrade to Windows 7, despite an economy in which many IT budgets have been frozen or are lower than in years past.

Dell introduced the Latitude Z business laptop, which includes a new wireless charging technology that could eventually find its way into other Dell systems, the company said on Tuesday.

A Hewlett-Packard szerint a jövő évben ismét fellendül az IT-költés, ennek ellenére a 2010-es üzleti előrejelzése elmarad a tőzsdei elemzők várakozásaitól. A HP megszünteti az EDS márkanevet, és más üzletágait is átalakítja.

NetSuite on Wednesday plans to unveil a new native application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users of its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite tap a number of key capabilities while on the go.

Intel's chips already go into many laptops, but it is now making a play for television sets and cable boxes through a new processor it released on Thursday.

Nintendo will cut the price of its popular Wii gaming console to $199.99 this weekend, the company said Wednesday, escalating a price war with rival consoles in a weak video game market.

Microsoft has purchased assets in a company that specializes in parallel computing, a function used mainly in supercomputing that Microsoft aims to develop for a broader audience, the company said Tuesday.

Former SAP CEO Henning Kagermann is joining the board of India's third-largest outsourcer, Wipro, the company said on Tuesday in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Megfizethető összegért a SwissDNA Bank vállalja ügyfelei DNS-állományának és emlékeinek megőrzését.

Az OCZ a vetélytársaknál lényegesen olcsóbb, SLC-szervezésű SSD-t dobott a piacra. Még mindig nem fognak sorok állni érte a boltok előtt, de a trend ígéretes.

A Vista rendszerekhez is letölthető lesz a Windows Ribbon framework.

Legalábbis a Sandisk vezérigazgatója szerint olyan mértékben zuhannak a flash memóriák árai, hogy hamarosan nem éri meg beruházni a gyártásukba.

Bár az elmúlt héten három amerikai informatikai cég is a tőzsdére ment, a szakemberek szerint ebből még korai levonni azt a következtetést, hogy a befektetők ismét kiéhezettek lennének a technológiai papírokra.