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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU regulators signaled they could clear Oracle Corp’s $7 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc, after the U.S. software company promised measures to ease competition concerns. The European Union’s executive European Commission said it was optimistic a “satisfactory outcome” was possible. It had previously objected to the deal, citing possible competition constraints […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Google Inc plans to sell its own cellphone direct to consumers as soon as next year, bypassing wireless operators in a rare strategic move, the Wall Street Journal cited sources as saying on Saturday. Called the Nexus One and made by smartphone maker HTC, the phone will run on the search […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft and SAP will voice their concerns at a European Union hearing on Friday over Oracle’s plan to buy Sun Microsystems, adding to regulators’ skepticism over the deal. The European Commission has objected to Oracle’s $7 billion bid for Sun, saying the purchase may limit competition in the database market. The EU […]

Microsoft said Wednesday it will buy private health-care software firm Sentillion and integrate it with its Amalga line of health management software. The move is intended to enable health-care professionals to improve patient care by providing higher levels of integration among hospital and other care systems. “Combining Sentillion’s products with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Amalga Unified […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc is preparing to launch a tablet personal computer in late March or April, with manufacturer partners poised to roll out as many as 1 million units per month, according to an Oppenheimer research note. The highly anticipated tablet is expected to pitch Apple into the digital book market popularized […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook, the world’s No.1 Internet social network, took a step toward opening up parts of its site to outsiders on Wednesday by introducing a broad revision of its users’ privacy settings. But Facebook’s implementation of the new settings drew quick criticisms from privacy advocates who claimed the changes were pushing Facebook’s […]

With the current state of the economy causing unrelenting pressure to cut costs, companies are forced to do more with less and seek maximum return from existing software investments. Yet businesses continue to demand new solutions and innovation even as IT resources are reduced. Companies are welcoming the increased business value, lowered total cost of […]

The key to supporting adoption of the Cloud—Software as a Service (SaaS) and other Cloud services—within your business is to develop a holistic strategy and enterprise roadmap for securing your Cloud environment. Come join the thought provoking webinar on Cloud security to discuss: * Cloud Computing and the key security challenges * Compliance risks and […]

This paper explores the questions organizations should consider as they plan for desktop infrastructure that can help them better address client computing challenges. First, it takes a closer look at the issues many enterprise organizations face today, with questions in the first four sections to guide you in a desktop capability assessment for your own […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook, the world’s No.1 Internet social network, took a step toward opening up parts of its site to outsiders Wednesday by introducing more options for user’s privacy settings. The changes will make it easier for Facebook’s more than 350 million users to limit who sees their musings, videos, photographs and other […]

The popularity of the iPhone as a consumer device practically guarantees that most iPhones brought into the enterprise will have additional non-enterprise applications running. As a result, companies are taking different approaches to supporting the iPhone in the enterprise, some treating them as “personal use” devices, while others are deploying them as business tools for […]

Today, a fresh set of trends and technologies is changing the way that we build computing systems and operate them. Two of the biggest are virtualization and cloud computing. Virtualization effectively decouples operating systems and their applications from server hardware, and thereby makes it easier to physically move them from one machine to another. Cloud […]