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(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co named Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, 38, to its board of directors, tapping one of the industry’s best known investors to help guide the world’s biggest PC maker. Chief Executive Mark Hurd is likely to look to Andreessen, one of the developers of the first widely used Web browser, to help expand […]

(Reuters) – Google Inc announced a major overhaul of the DoubleClick ad exchange it acquired last year, an important step in the Internet search giant’s plan to extend its advertising business into the market for graphical, display ads. Google acquired DoubleClick for more than $3 billion in March 2008, in hopes of supplementing its lucrative […]

Oracle and its soon-to-be-acquired partner, Sun Microsystems, made their first joint product announcement since the April 20 merger announcement on Sept. 15 when they unveiled a souped-up, NAND flash-based database server designed for both enterprise-level data warehousing and extreme-performance online transaction processing. As the trend has been playing out for the last two years, it’s […]

A trio of new surveys indicates that SMBs will: (a) be reducing their budgets 4 percent this year (Forrester Research); (b) make significant investments in new hardware and software over the next six months (Spiceworks); and (c) believe the economy will improve moderately by the end of the year (PartnerUp). So basically, pick your survey […]

(Reuters) – Oracle Corp has ended a high-profile computer-building partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co as Oracle prepares to acquire Sun Microsystems Inc, a rival of HP. Sun, the world’s No. 4 server maker, and Oracle have jointly developed a second-generation version of a specialized database computer, dubbed Exadata. Oracle and HP launched the first version a […]

NetApp has announced a series of enhancements to its FAS unified storage architecture system. This includes a new solution for the lower part of the midsize enterprise space, the FAS2040 storage system. The company also announced significant price reductions for its FAS2020 systems and associated software. And it announced a significant reduction in FAS2020 SKUs, […]

(Reuters) – Adobe Systems Inc plans to pay $1.8 billion for fast-growing business software maker Omniture Inc as the maker of Photoshop and Acrobat looks to turn around declining sales. Adobe, which announced the deal on Tuesday as it reported lower quarterly sales and profit, has been struggling over the past year as the recession […]

The most recent Dell earnings showed steep declines in PC sales, which dragged overall corporate earnings by 23 percent. The numbers are stark: sales to large corporate customers down 32 percent and PC sales down 33 percent. The trend is not unique to Dell. HP, Lenovo, Acer and other Windows-based PC manufacturers have noted declines […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co unveiled several new products for the important fall season, including thin and light laptop PCs and an eye-catching new netbook. The world’s No. 1 PC maker has ably navigated a steep industry downturn in computer sales, managing to grow its global market share to 20 percent even as consumers […]

By Clare Baldwin and Jim Finkle SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON (Reuters) – Intel Corp, the world’s top chipmaker, announced a reorganization of its major product divisions and said an executive who helped run a group that rang up more than half its sales last year had left the company. The restructuring combines Intel’s two major product divisions […]

On Monday IBM will announce its latest set of Express Advantage offerings for the midmarket, via the channel, with the biggest focus on business intelligence. According to the research data, including the mammoth CIO study results Big Blue released last week, BI is hot. "CIOs are investing in business analytics capabilities to help them improve […]

(Reuters) – A U.S. court of appeals on Friday overturned a $358 million damages award against software maker Microsoft Corp in a long-running patent dispute with French telecoms equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles many patent and trademark cases, held that Microsoft did indirectly infringe Alcatel’s […]