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The stockholders have scheduled a special meeting for Friday, June 25, to vote on the proposed merger. Hewlett-Packard moved a step closer to officially owning smartphone-maker Palm June 1, when the Federal Trade Commission gave its approval of the acquisition, granting the early termination of a waiting period imposed by a 1976 antitrust act. “The […]

(Reuters) – Small businesses are borrowing more than they were at the depths of the recession, but their appetite for loans remains poor, data released by PayNet Inc on Tuesday showed. The Thomson Reuters/Paynet Small Business Lending Index, which measures the overall volume of financing to U.S. small businesses, jumped 12 percent in April from […]

Calif (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said the transition from PCs to smartphones and tablets is a time of "potential tumult" in the technology industry, but said the software maker will continue to prosper in the changing market. Ballmer said that Microsoft’s Windows operating system, currently used in the vast majority of […]

(Reuters) – Dell Inc’s (NASDAQ:DELL) chief executive said on Thursday he has considered taking the company he founded private, but said the transformation of the personal computer maker is still incomplete. In response to a question at the Sanford C. Bernstein investor conference, Michael Dell said he considered taking Dell private but declined to comment […]

Microsoft’s Windows XP should be eliminated from businesses’ PCs by the end of 2012, according to a new report from research firm Gartner, as both ISVs and application builders begin to cut off support for the operating system. At the same time, the report states, organizations planning on a Windows 7 transition should begin planning […]

Linux-based smartphones, such as those running Google’s Android, will outstrip the growth of the rest of the market and account for more than a third of worldwide market share by 2015, ABI is predicting. In a June 1 report, ABI Research is forecasting such growth to continue – though not based on Google’s Android alone. […]

Although Google has not officially confirmed that its executives are trying to shift employees away from Windows PCs, online reports suggest that Google is doing so out of concerns for security. Google has blamed a January security breach, which resulted in the theft of intellectual property, on a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Google itself may […]

NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) – AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) plans to stop offering an unlimited pricing plan for new subscribers to its mobile data services, a move that it says will cut prices for as many as 98 percent of its customers. The exclusive U.S. provider for Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone said the new metered […]

In a bit of competitive irony, the technology was used to build Wired magazine’s June iPad edition – despite Apple’s refusal to support Adobe’s Flash, which is used to display many popular Websites’ rich content but which Apple CEO Steve Jobs has condemned as slow and buggy. Adobe’s digital magazine viewer seeks to marry digital […]

The two new chipsets, called Mobile Station Modem (MSM) 8260 and MSM8660, integrate two enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz. The former is designed for compatibility with HSPA+ networks – such as the one T-Mobile has been rolling out – and the latter for HSPA+/CDMA200 1xEv-DO Rev. B. READ MORE >>

The Chinese boast two of the world’s top ten fastest supercomputers, according to rankings published by the TOP500 organization. The Nebulae, based in Shenzhen, is currently the fastest system worldwide in theoretical peak performance at 2.98 petaflops per second (PFlop/s). China’s ambition to enter the supercomputing arena, among other areas of world competitiveness, because clearer […]

(Reuters) – Apple Inc said it sold 2 million iPads since launching the touch-screen tablet in the United States nearly two months ago and taking it to nine international markets this past weekend. The company did not give a geographic breakdown of sales in its statement, but had previously said it sold 1 million iPads […]