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Microsoft executives are saying they see the beginning of a long-heralded business IT refresh, and suggested during an April 22 earnings call that it could persist for a number of years. While Microsoft reported increased spending on its business products during the third quarter of fiscal 2010, revenues for the Microsoft Business Division remained lower […]

IBM’s Storage business is on a roll.  IBM this week reported 11 percent year-over-year revenue growth for its storage products in the first quarter of 2010. That followed a final quarter of 2009 that saw IBM outperform EMC and HP and, according to IDC, seize the No. 2 position in the global market. As if […]

What a week of leaks. Following the Apple iPhone 4G debacle and leaked photos of Research In Motion’s latest operating system for its BlackBerry smartphones (not to mention a new clamshell handset), photos and information concerning Dell’s Windows Phone 7-powered portrait slider called the “Lightning” popped up on the technology blog Engadget. The spec sheet […]

News Analysis: In its most aggressive position against Google yet, Consumer Watchdog April 21 asked the U.S. Department of Justice to sue the search engine and suggested the government agency could break up Google into several companies. Consumer Watchdog advocate John M. Simpson argued that the government must go beyond opposing Google’s attempts to grow […]

A comprehensive security assessment and certification program from Verizon Business is aimed at helping small to medium-size businesses better assess and manage their security risks associated with protecting sensitive company information, according to a Verizon announcement. The company’s Security Management Program (SMP) Business helps proactively protect businesses from security threats by leveraging a set of […]

Microsoft has released its Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 to users with touch-screen devices. The Touch Pack comprises six applications designed take advantage of the operating system’s multitouch capabilities: three games and three Microsoft Surface applications. “Until today, the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 was only available for OEMs to put on new […]

If Apple-related rumors were bad news for Samsung at the start of the week, for chip designer ARM Holdings they worked to drive stock prices up. Rumors that Apple may be considering purchasing ARM—which currently makes chips for the Apple iPhone—drove ARM stock to an eight-year high, the Guardian reported April 22. READ MORE >>

NEW YORK—Oracle unveiled Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g, a platform that consolidates various systems management and support tools with an integrated interface, during an April 22 presentation at the Guggenheim Museum. “Traditional systems management products don’t address the complexities of modern data centers,” Richard Sarwal, Oracle’s senior vice president of Product Development, said in a statement […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Target Corp will begin selling Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle e-reader this month, the first time Amazon is allowing distribution of its popular product outside its website. Amazon’s dominant ereader is fending off new competition from Apple Inc’s iPad tablet and the Nook from Barnes & Noble Inc. Both of those devices are […]

Even as the iPhone continues to help drive Apple’s substantial revenue growth, new features in the smartphone’s upcoming version could allow the company to drill into entirely new business areas, including video social networking and conferencing. On April 19, tech blog Gizmodo posted an extensive breakdown of a device, reportedly found in a California bar, […]

Microsoft released the final version of SQL Server 2008 Release 2 (R2) to manufacturing today. According to Microsoft, customers can expect availability in the next few weeks through Microsoft distribution channels. The update features a number of enhancements centered on scalability, analytics, reporting and data management. More than 300,000 users downloaded the database’s technology previews, […]

(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s results blew past Wall Street expectations on the back of record iPhone sales, and the company gave a strong revenue forecast, sending its shares up more than 5 percent to an all-time high. The results and forecast should boost Apple’s stock price, which has charged upward for more than a year […]