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Hewlett-Packard and Alcatel-Lucent are partnering on a series of unified communications solutions, part of the 10-year technology alliance the two companies announced almost a year ago. HP and Alcatel-Lucent officials announced May 24 a mix of solutions and services from both companies designed to make it easier for enterprises to migrate to a UC (unified […]

Tech Data, a distributor of IT products, announced it finalized an expanded distribution agreement with Avaya, a provider of enterprise communications. In addition to supporting products and services added to the Avaya portfolio following the acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions, Tech Data offers IT resellers nationwide access to the full range of Avaya’s unified communications, […]

ScaleMP officials announced May 25 that vSMP Foundation 3.0, which is aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, will support Intel’s Xeon 7500 series “Nehalem EX” processors and Xeon 5600 series “Westmere EP” chips. Doing so means that vSMP Foundation enables the creation of virtual SMP systems that have two to 128 physical nodes. ScaleMP […]

Seagate pulled no punches on May 24, introducing a spinning-disk/solid-state hybrid drive that it boldly described as the “world’s fastest drive for laptops.” The Momentus XT, which can hold up to 500GB of capacity in a 7200-rpm package, will become available for the first time as an upgrade in Asus laptops. The OEM pricing is […]

Google pays 51 percent of revenue to publishers that use its AdSense for search product. The information about how the shared revenue is split comes as Apple prepares to launch its iAd platform with a 60-40 split in favor of developers, and as regulators are increasingly hounding Google to be more transparent. READ MORE >>

The company, which helps ad networks and publishers deal with the issue, collected the data from its telemetry system. Dasient estimated approximately 1.3 million malicious advertisements are viewed on the Web daily. According to the company, the average malicious ad lives on the Web for more than a week. READ MORE >>

NEW YORK/BOSTON, May 24 (Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) plans to buy Sterling Commerce from AT&T Inc (T.N) for about $1.4 billion in cash, extending the technology behemoth’s portfolio of business software. The move comes amid a flurry of software acquisitions by International Business Machines Corp, Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) and SAP AG (DE:SAPG), as they look […]

IBM is offering new technology that will allow Sybase users to move to IBM DB2 with virtually no changes to application code. The technology is called DB2 SQL Skin, and will be sold to DB2 customers as a feature starting May 28. Developed jointly by IBM and ANTs Software, the technology is aimed at easing […]

Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest producer of PCs, is recalling an additional 54,000 lithium ion batteries used in laptops after reports surfaced that the batteries are prone to overheating and can catch fire. HP, along with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, issued the additional recall on May 21. The recall involves several models from HP’s […]

By Jim Finkle SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (Reuters) – Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM) issued a full-year profit outlook at the low end of Wall Street projections as the Web-based software maker plans to increase spending to fuel sales growth. Salesforce, whose shares fell 5.6 percent in after-hours trading, said profit will also be hurt by costs […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Dell Inc’s (NASDAQ:DELL) quarterly sales and profit beat expectations but its gross margin fell short of analysts’ forecasts and the computer maker warned that components supply will remain tight. Dell, whose shares fell 3 percent after the results on Thursday, has been struggling to boost profitability due to both sales of […]

Google is partnering with VMware on what the companies are calling cloud portability – technologies that make it easy for Java developers to use their standard tools to develop web applications. The partnership falls under the Google App Engine for Business, a set of technologies that enable companies to create and deploy their own applications […]