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Article | 30/12/2009 Adobe will be top target for hackers in 2010, report says

Adobe Systems' Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsoft Office applicati...

Article | 15/12/2009 IBM slapped with suit alleging unfair mainframe competition

IBM has been disparaging products made by a smaller rival in order to protect its lucrative mainframe business, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday...

Article | 3/12/2009 Microsoft's Bing tries to leapfrog Google Maps

Microsoft is taking aim at one of Google's most popular services, Google Maps, with a richer version of its own online mapping service that was releas...

Article | 3/12/2009 Microsoft's Bing tries to leapfrog Google Maps

Microsoft is taking aim at one of Google's most popular services, Google Maps, with a richer version of its own online mapping service that was releas...

Article | 1/12/2009 IBM stays tops as server market stabilizes, Gartner says

IBM retained its narrow lead over Hewlett-Packard in the worldwide server market as sales began to stabilize during the third quarter, Gartner said Mo...

Article | 24/11/2009 HP reports solid Q4 on services growth

Hewlett-Packard reported an 18 percent jump in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, thanks to cost-cutting efforts and the strength of its services b...

Article | 24/11/2009 HP reports solid Q4 on services growth

Hewlett-Packard reported an 18 percent jump in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, thanks in large part to the strength of its services business.

Article | 20/11/2009 Dell's Q3 profit slides 54 percent

Dell reported third-quarter profits on Thursday that were down 54 percent from this time last year, though the company said it was encouraged by a sli...

Article | 17/11/2009 HP pushes thin clients with new hardware, tools

Hewlett-Packard is trying to tackle concerns about the cost and complexity of thin-client computing with new products and tools announced Tuesday.

Article | 12/11/2009 AMD talks Bulldozer, Hemlock and Fusion

If chip makers competed on the basis of code names rather than products then Advanced Micro Devices might have beaten Intel a long time ago.

Article | 11/11/2009 Updated: Adobe laying off 680 staff to cut costs

Adobe Systems will lay off 680 staff, or 9 percent of its workforce, in its latest move to cut costs, the company confirmed Tuesday.

Article | 10/11/2009 EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition

The European Commission on Monday issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying the deal w...

Article | 10/11/2009 EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition

The European Commission has issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun said in a regulator...

Article | 5/11/2009 HPC vendor pitches tools to build 'private cloud'

Much of the talk about cloud computing in data centers has been about enterprise workloads, but high-performance computing (HPC) customers are getting...

Article | 28/10/2009 Survey revives debate over mainframe's future

A new survey of data center users predicts a sharp drop in mainframe usage, though some industry analysts say the results seem unlikely.