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(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) is expected to unveil a plan that emphasizes software over hardware in a move that could send its shares significantly higher, according to a report in Barron’s financial newspaper. HP, which has lagged behind rivals in the software business, is likely to increase its software holdings through acquisitions, according to […]

Within hours of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, cyber-criminals had poisoned search results based on the disaster with malicious links. Users searching on "most recent earthquake in Japan" may encounter some malicious links to fake anti-virus software, Trend Micro researchers said March 11. Malware writers used black-hat search engine manipulation techniques to push […]

With Apple launching its iPad 2 on March 11, Aptilon, an online marketing firm in Montreal, has released the results of a survey revealing that 79 percent of physicians preferred the iPad, while 12 percent would go for a Windows-based tablet and 9 percent for an Android model. In addition, about 38 percent of physicians […]

Novell’s $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate, approved by shareholders of both companies last month, has run into some legal snags. The deal hinges largely on the sale of 882 patents to a Microsoft-led consortium of vendors. As might be expected, due diligence by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission in […]

Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 devices won’t hit the market for another two years, and the company’s partnership with Microsoft carries some wide-ranging and systemic risks. That comes from Nokia’s publicly released Form 20-F 2010 report, a massive tome submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and posted on Nokia’s Website. A good portion […]

Google March 9 added Gmail Smart Labels, another tool to help its 150 million-plus users sift through the loads of social-network digests, e-commerce messages and credit card statements they receive each day. While users may already create labels and filters to tell Gmail how to treat incoming messages, Smart Labels will automatically dump messages into […]

BOSTON—SAP is promising an aggressive 2011 roadmap for new applications that leverage its in-memory technology as well as a new release of its HANA system that company officials say enterprises could use instead of traditional databases from rivals such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. At a daylong event here March 9, SAP executives outlined 10 […]

When VMware’s Rod Johnson talks, people tend to listen. One person who clearly is listening to Johnson — general manager of VMware’s SpringSource division — is Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, who commissioned Johnson to acquire WaveMaker and its Spring-based visual development tool that enables “non-expert” programmers to build Web applications quickly and easily. The […]

Hewlett-Packard officials have moved quickly to stamp out rumors that the company was planning to sell its PC business. In a terse two-paragraph statement issued March 10, Bill Wohl, HP’s senior vice president and chief communications officer, said the rumors were unfounded and illogical, and took aim at the source of the rumors. "Irresponsible reporting […]

Tablets are fast gaining interest in enterprise segments, where security has long been a major concern, but IT managers are slowly softening to the idea of supporting employee-owned devices. However, tablet users, it turns out, are transferring sensitive information at a greater rate than even smartphone owners, according to a March 10 report from Harris […]

Midmarket companies are not doing enough to protect their mobile phones, according to survey results by research firm Canalys. Based on 814 SMB (small and midsize business) respondents, the report indicated that 86 percent of SMBs have not yet adopted mobile phone security throughout their organizations. The research signals an “alarming gap” between the growing […]

VMware already supplies the world’s most popular virtualization layer for IT systems. Now the company wants to become your handy-dandy cloud computing operations provider. VMware on March 9 launched a new platform, VMware vCenter Operations, which centralizes and automates administrative control of dynamic virtual and cloud environments. The new package provides visibility throughout a private […]