Retailers in Japan began accepting reservations for Sharp's new Galapagos media tablet on Friday ahead of its launch next week. Sharp hopes to sell a million of the devices and in doing so take the lead in Japan from competitors like Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle.

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.

A Live Spaces szolgáltatásról eddig több mint 500 ezer felhasználót tereltek át a Wordpress.com-ra.

While many Oracle customers are interested in running IT services on private clouds, most are still in the early stages of development, a new study from the Independent Oracle Users Group has found.

China will investigate and prosecute Google next July if the search engine company does not acquire the necessary state license to operate its Google Maps service in the country, according to the government.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

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.

When it comes to power-efficient computing, CPUs are weighed down by too many legacy features to outperform GPUs (graphics processing units) in executing common tasks in parallel, said the chief scientist for the GPU vendor Nvidia.

Az Intel együttműködésbe kezdett néhány iparági szakértő céggel, hogy javítson az amerikai futball sisakok biztonságán. Legújabb ötletük nyomán Atom processzorokra alapuló mérőrendszereket építenek a sisakokba, hogy azok valós idejű adatokat szolgáltathassanak az egészségügyi személyzet számára arról, hogy épp milyen hatások érték a játékosokat.

Intel has been working with several industry experts to improve the safety of football helmets, including an idea to put its tiny Atom microprocessors inside football helmets to measure and feed real-time impact data to medical personnel on the sidelines of a game.

Misys is buying fellow financial services software vendor Sophis for ?435 million (US$595 million), creating a company with products for both buy-side and sell-side purposes, the company announced Friday. The deal is expected to close before the end of February.

Védekezni kényszerül az Oracle a MySQL támogatás áremelése miatt. A cég azt hangsúlyozza, hogy továbbra is van ingyenes változat és az ügyfelek sokkal többet kapnak, mint akkor amikor az adatbáziskezelő még a Sun birtokában volt. A 24/7 támogatás valóban olcsóbb lett, a sokmagos processzorokat tartalmazó kiszolgálók tulajdonosai pedig szemtelenül jól járhatnak a MySQL-el.

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.

Igazi Windows Server gyilkost lát új termékében a Red Hat. A vállalati Linux kiadás hatodik változata mindenesetre évekre előre meghatározza majd a Linux világának alakulását, beleértve a felhő platformokat és a többprocesszoros programozást.

Former Oracle President Charles Phillips testified in court Thursday that he would have been "terrified" to learn SAP had gained access to Oracle's software and that SAP would have had to pay "at least 3 or 4 billion dollars" to license it.

Cloud Sherpas, a provider of services and software for Google Apps, has closed a funding round worth US$1.6 million and will use the money in part to develop vertical-market applications for the cloud-hosted collaboration and communication suite.

Google and a reseller of its products have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior after the agency solicited bids for cloud-based e-mail and messaging services specifying that bidders must use Microsoft products.

A former director of sales at HannStar Display of Taiwan has agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time for participating in a global conspiracy to fix the prices of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Közzétette vegyes eredményeket tartalmazó gyorsjelentését a Telenor Magyarország, amely vesztett előfizetőinek számából is. A második legnagyobb hazai mobil távközlési cég bevétele a recesszió enyhülése ellenére még mindig elmarad a korábbi időszakétól. A cég vezetője reményét fejezte ki, hogy hamarosan kiszámíthatóbb lesz a befektetési környezet idehaza a mostaninál. Különben nem tudnak beruházásokat végrehajtani.