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.

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.

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.

IBM said Monday that third-quarter net income rose 12 percent to US$3.6 billion, buoyed by strong performance in Brazil, Russia, India and China as well as solid sales of analytics software and services.

Goldman Sachs' investment research arm expects a coming boom in wireless data consumption fueled by 4G wireless services and the rise of mobile tablet computers.

A felhőben elhelyezkedő SUSE Linux Enterprise Server igény szerinti használaton alapuló díjazás ellenében vehető igénybe, köszönhetően a Novell SUSE Cloud Programjának, amelyhez az Amazon Web Services-en kívül többek között az IBM és a Fujitsu is csatlakozott.

Google and AOL have renewed a long-term partnership that gives AOL Web properties access to Google search and advertising services.

Google has acquired Like.com, which offers a visual search engine for retail products, a deal aimed at boosting Google's shopping search capabilities and services like its Products engine.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the company's latest creation, a foray into the world of location-based services called Facebook Places.

Despite fears caused by the European debt crisis, spending on technology products and services is set to continue growing around the world, although the pace of growth in Europe overall will be lower, Forrester Research said in a report released Tuesday.

Microsoft is giving its partners tools that could help drive more business to its cloud-based services.

IBM unveiled on Tuesday a new package of pre-integrated software applications, called the Financial Markets Industry Framework, configured for the financial services market.

A Procter & Gamble (P&G) munkatársai hamarosan közvetlenül okostelefonjukról nyomtathatják ki e-mailjeiket, prezentációikat és üzleti dokumentumaikat. A Xerox vállalati nyomtatási szolgáltatásokkal (Enterprise Print Services, EPS) kapcsolatos stratégiájának részeként született mobil nyomtatási megoldással, a munkafolyamatok mobilitását, fenntarthatóságát és a termelékenység további erősítését kívánja elősegíteni.

Hewlett-Packard reported solid results for its second quarter as strong growth in PC and x86 server sales helped offset an unremarkable quarter for its services business.

Michael Abbott, the head of Palm's software and services team, will leave the company at the end of next week, according to a regulatory filing Palm made on Friday.

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

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

iSoft has secured a two-year $9.8 million contract extension from the UK's NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS).

Az Orange Business Services és a Sybase közt létrejött együttműködés alapján az Orange átfogó mobil eszközmenedzsmentet szolgáltatásba kezd vállalati ügyfelek részére világszerte. A szolgáltatás keretében a cégek platform függetlenül mobilbiztonságot és távmenedzsmentet biztosíthatnak saját eszközparkjukon.