Channel Insider Staff

TIANJIN, China, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Wipro Ltd (WIPR) (NYSE:WIT), India’s No.3 software services exporter, said on Monday that customers remain cautious about technology spending, with budgets flat to slightly higher as they look for transformational projects. "Folks are cautious in the way that they’re spending," Martha Bejar, Wipro’s president of global sales and operations, […]

LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Anssi Vanjoki, the Nokia (NOK1V) executive in charge of smartphones and services, is resigning following the appointment of outsider Stephen Elop as CEO of the world’s biggest cellphone maker. Vanjoki, who joined Nokia in 1991 and has been head of Mobile Solutions since 2008, has a six-month notice period and […]

(Reuters) – Nokia has hired Stephen Elop, a Canadian Microsoft executive with Silicon Valley credentials, to replace its embattled chief executive and renew its drive to compete with Apple. The world’s top cellphone maker said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who presided over a halving in Nokia’s market value to about $37 billion during his four years in […]

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Chip makers National Semiconductor (NYSE:NSM) and Texas Instruments Inc (NYSE:TXN) on Thursday issued quarterly financial targets that stoked investors’ worries about a sluggish economy. Both companies cited weak demand for personal computers and other devices that use microchips and National Semiconductor said consumers were not spending as much […]

NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) said on Thursday it is relaxing strict guidelines on how software developers create applications for its popular App Store service even as it faces competition from Google Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) in the wireless sector. Apple plans to ease restrictions on which development tools can be used to […]

Google Inc’s search engine now displays results before users finish typing. The new technology, dubbed Google Instant, can shave two seconds to five seconds off every Internet search, Google said on Wednesday, and could entice users to search more on its website. And with competition increasing from Internet rivals such as Microsoft Corp, Yahoo Inc […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co’s (NYSE:HPQ) interim chief executive said its relationship with Oracle has been "strained" by the fallout from Mark Hurd’s hiring by the software company, but she expects the companies to be "good partners" in the future. HP asked a court on Tuesday to block Hurd, HP’s former CEO, […]

Dell and other PC vendors will stop shipping systems with Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home installed, beginning Oct. 22. Dell customers will no longer have Windows XP as an option starting in late September, although the manufacturer plans to continue Windows XP driver support through December 2012. >> Click here to read the […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Salesforce.com will offer mobile versions of its Chatter tool for social networking inside companies from later this year as it seeks to make its software more ubiquitous and its customers more productive. The company, which pioneered the delivery of software as a service to companies over the Web, said on Wednesday Chatter […]

(Reuters) – Oracle Corp offered its new president, Mark Hurd, former head of Hewlett-Packard Co, a salary of $950,000 and a bonus of up to $10 million for fiscal 2011, plus stock options. Oracle, the world’s No. 3 software maker, named Hurd co-president on Monday, a month after he stepped down from HP following a […]

Cloud voice and video services vendor Skype is looking to up its game in the business world by introducing the Skype Channel Partner Program to help serve businesses that want to use Skype for their collaboration and communication needs. And for solution providers looking to become serious players in video conferencing, Skype may very well […]

IT distribution giant Ingram Micro has named a new head of its managed services and cloud computing business.  Renee Bergeron will head up that arm of the business, replacing Justin Crotty who left Ingram Micro this summer to join hosted infrastructure and applications services provider, Netenrich. Bergeron will be responsible for Ingram Micro’s managed services […]