Teradata said Thursday it plans to buy data warehousing and analtyics startup Aster Data Systems, continuing a run of consolidation in the market for technology that can process ever-growing amounts of "big data."

Novell's shareholders have approved the sale of the company to Attachmate for about US$2.2 billion, although the deal depends on Novell getting approval to sell hundreds of patents to a consortium led by Microsoft.

Those curious about the final release date for the hotly debated HTML5 need wonder no more: The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) plans to finalize the standard by July 2014, the organization announced Monday.

In a move that will be seen by many as a big win for open-source advocates, a plan to create a consortium led by Microsoft to buy Novell patents has been withdrawn.

Az IBM nemrégiben megrendezett programozóversenyének győztese egy olyan megoldás, amelynek révén az intereten könnyen egymásra találhatnak az anyatejet kereső és felajánló anyukák.

China's strict controls on its Internet usage will eventually fail as more of the country's people go online and express themselves, said Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

A vállalat egyik nyilvánosságra került belső feljegyzése szerint az Oracle a továbbiakban kizárólag a Sun által kifejlesztett operációs rendszer kereskedelmi verziójának fejlesztésére koncentrál.

Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead.

Frustrated by what they consider poor treatment and lack of interest from Oracle, members of the OpenSolaris Governing Board are essentially delivering an ultimatum to the vendor, asking that it appoint a liaison to the group by no later than Aug. 16, or else the board will be disbanded.

EMC's announcement this week of plans to purchase data warehousing vendor Greenplum represents a harbinger of things to come for that market, as well as related areas like BI (business intelligence) and data integration, according to some analysts.

Összezavarja az OpenSolaris közösséget az Oracle szótlansága, a soron következő kiadás már jócskán késésben van.

The news comes after Google last week snubbed the Chinese government over censorship.

Users in China had brief technical problems accessing Google.com and Google.com.hk.

China did not immediately block any Google sites after the company stopped censoring search results.

The company is redirecting from its Chinese site to Google.com.hk.

Apple appears to have blocked iPhone applications related to the Dalai Lama in its China App Store, making it the latest U.S. technology company to censor its services in China.

A frissítés többek között VMware Consolidated Backup és Windows 7 támogatással egészíti ki a megoldást.

For the last few years Nintendo has been riding high on the runaway success of the Wii console but now that success appears to slowing considerably. Sales and profit at the Japanese games company fell sharply during the first half of its financial year as demand for the console dropped.

Brocade has reportedly put itself up for sale, a development that portends significant consolidation within the data center IT industry.

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.