Infor's roughly US$1.8 billion offer for Lawson Software will likely be far from the only salvo in a bidding war for the ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor that could see the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle enter the fray, according to some analysts.
Nvidia on Wednesday appointed a new chief technology officer for its Tesla business unit to provide a spark to its fast-growing high-performance computing (HPC) business.
While devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android are in most cases welcomed into the corporate world, there's uncertainty about how to fit them into enterprise IT security practices that have been concerned so long by Microsoft Windows.
Users of Apple's Time Capsule have taken to the Web with complaints about their dead storage and wireless devices and are tallying the hardware failures in an effort to convince Apple that there's a problem.
SAN FRANCISCO— IT executives who flocked to the RSA Conference this week heard more evidence that enterprise networks are increasingly vulnerable, while cybercriminals are becoming better organized and more dangerous. An estimated 250,000 computers are compromised every day by botherders, according to Robert Holleyman, president and CEO of the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The number of exploits is seven times higher than it was a year ago, and the cyberthreat is "growing exponentially,'' he said.
The sparsely populated floor at Linuxworld was a disappointment, but netbooks made an impact at this year's show, a sign that these lightweight machines may bring the Linux OS to a larger audience.
Consumers are trading in their iPads and other tablets at an "unprecedented rate" to buy the newest offerings from Apple, Google and Microsoft, according to SellCell, an electronics trade-in website.
Though U.S. political leaders managed to spark some good news for the economy Friday, technology stocks are down for the week, showing a continued lack of confidence in the sector.
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Talk of young IT workers being disillusioned or expecting too much from employers ranks right up there with heated debates over religion and politics. The idea that IT employees shouldn't expect good compensation, excellent benefits and a lot of respect cause many Network World readers to sound off on the issue.
China will soon roll out a plan to stimulate sales of IT products, which could help revive PC shipments in the nation, and further stimulate purchases of smartphones.
Earnings reports from IBM, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices and acquisition news from Oracle and Sun did nothing to calm IT investor fears about an uncertain U.S. economy this week.
Young technology start-ups that hadn’t received funding before drew a steady stream of cash from investors during the first quarter of 2005, despite a dip in overall investments to $4.6 billion from $5.4 billion in the last quarter of 2004.
U.S. President Barack Obama's proposed changes to the National Security Agency's surveillance programs don't go far enough, some technology and digital rights groups said, while others hailed it as a good first step.
Autodesk announced Wednesday an open software platform for 3-D printing called Spark, which will be open and freely licensable to manufacturers and others.
The chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid and the spark behind Microsoft's inspirational Super Bowl ad has been named Chief Strategy Officer in a shakeup of the company's inner circle announced today.
Corpus Christi this week took back ownership of a municipal wireless mesh it built and then sold to Earthlink in 2007. The deal could spark realignments in the troubled municipal broadband market.
Confidence in software-as-a-service, mobile and cloud technology is spurring tech mergers and acquisitions, despite lingering economic worries, according to market watchers.
When Apple Inc. launches the iPhone on Friday, it is set to get a jump on its competitors and spark a flurry of new phone designs, regardless of how well the device actually sells.
You have to hand it to the tabloid headline writers at the New York Post: They know nothing if not how to turn the tiniest spark into a five-alarm conflagration.