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Article | 19/06/2009 Alcatel-Lucent will team with HP to sell telecom products

Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent and IT vendor Hewlett-Packard plan to jointly market their products to businesses looking for...

Article | 9/06/2009 Cheerleader for new domain names defends ICANN plan

Plans to introduce new top-level Internet domains will not force trademark owners to make defensive registrations to protect their brands, according t...

Article | 29/05/2009 HP plans to outsource European server production

Hewlett-Packard plans to outsource the production of enterprise storage and servers in Europe in order to cut costs, it said Thursday.

Article | 27/05/2009 Red Hat sues Swiss government over $39M Microsoft contract

Red Hat has filed suit with the Swiss Federal Administrative Court, asking it to cancel a contract for desktop software and services that a government...

Article | 7/05/2009 Micro Focus buys Borland Software

Micro Focus International plans to beef up its range of software quality assurance tools with two acquisitions it announced Wednesday.

Article | 1/05/2009 Apple snapping up chip designers

A year after buying low-power processor designer PA Semi, Apple is looking for yet more chip design expertise.

Article | 20/04/2009 Google offers top tip to help beat bots

Google has put a new spin on the CAPTCHA, a way of helping Web sites distinguish between human visitors and bots: It wants people to tell it which way...

Article | 10/04/2009 Russian President warns of foreign threat to 'Net security

Foreign investors in Internet companies pose a potential threat to national security, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned members of the United R...

Article | 9/04/2009 Europe sets rules for energy-efficient gadget power adapters

Those external power supplies that deliver electricity to many of today's gadgets aren't just ugly, they're wasting energy, but, in Europe at least, t...

Article | 1/04/2009 Zend Technologies readies a new PHP application server

Zend Technologies is putting the finishing touches to Zend Server, a new Web applications server aimed at mission-critical PHP applications.

Article | 27/03/2009 Google plans fifth birthday present for Gmail users

Google will announce the next step in Gmail's evolution, a new product with "a European multilingual angle," on Monday.

Article | 26/03/2009 Pixazza plans to profit from pictures with Google funds

Pixazza is looking to turn any photo on the Web into a miniature online store with a new service it calls "Product in the picture." It likens the serv...

Article | 20/03/2009 Thomson pumps up volume with tools for MP3HD lossless codec

Thomson has released software for the creation and playback of a new type of audio file using lossless compression. MP3HD files will be around four ti...

Article | 20/03/2009 Sony eBook Store to offer classic books digitized by Google

If you have a Sony Reader, you have a lot of reading to catch up on. Sony Electronics has struck a deal with Google to distribute half a million title...

Article | 18/03/2009 Software companies adapt graphic novels for the mobile phone

The corner of the Paris Book Fair devoted to e-book readers was larger than last year -- but the most interesting devices were smaller: smartphones ru...