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Accenture pays $64m to settle kick back case

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:10:00 GMT

Denies liability in US government contracts case which names Cisco, HP, Sun, EMC and CSC

Technology services and consulting company Accenture has agreed to pay $63.7 million to resolve whistleblower allegations that it participated in a large-scale kickbacks scheme involving U.S. government contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Broadcom pays £2.3bn for NetLogic

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:20:00 GMT

Communications processor maker joins list of high priced IT takeovers

Broadcom has agreed to acquire communications processor company NetLogic Microsystems for US$3.7 billion (£2.35 billion), the companies announced today.

Supercomputer Nautilus 'knew where Bin Laden was'

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:45:00 GMT

Machine digested hundreds of millions of news articles to predict Arab Spring

A supercomputer in America predicted the revolutions in Egypt and Libya and located where Osama Bin Laden was, according to an academic - but only after the events had happened.

iPhone users finally to have Flash

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:45:00 GMT

Despite Apple's attempts to restrict Flash, Adobe have launched a server using Apple's live streaming protocol

Apple may not have approved it, but it appears as though iPhone users will soon gain access to Flash content.

Nvidia CEO: Intel chased us out of chipset market

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Intel don't mind working with Nvidia on graphics cards, but don't want it in the chipset market

Nvidia concluded that it would exit the chipset business as Intel made it impossible for the company to operate in the market, the company's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said this week.

New HP app enables printing & scanning to iPhones, Facebook

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:10:00 GMT

HP announces new mobile and and 3D printing capabilities

For those running HP printers and scanners alongside their Macs, a series of new products were launched at HP's Imaging and Printing Conference 2011, to help both its home and business consumers adopt mobile and 3D printing.

Carol Bartz quits Yahoo board after continued investor pressure

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:26:00 GMT

Leading investor also calls for chairman Roy Bostock to go

Carol Bartz, the chief executive fired by Yahoo last week, has quit the company’s board of directors.

Lenovo expects to beat Dell in PC sales by year's end

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:26:00 GMT

Lenovo currently holds the number three spot in global PC sales

Lenovo's chairman believes the company will overtake Dell to become the world's second-largest PC vendor by the end of this year.

SAP to plead guilty to TomorrowNow criminal charges

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:13:00 GMT

The US Department of Justice filed a criminal suit against former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow

Former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow will plead guilty to criminal charges of copyright infringement for downloading software from Oracle's servers.

Apple wins permanent ban on German sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 is too similar to Apple's iPad 2 and may not be sold in Germany, a court there has ruled

Samsung must not sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany because it looks too much like Apple's iPad 2, the district court in Düsseldorf has ruled.

Nokia to put free Microsoft apps on Symbian Belle smartphones

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:27:00 GMT

Word, Excel and PowerPoint coming in 2012

Nokia will offer several Microsoft applications for free on their latest Symbian Belle smartphone later this year, the Finnish company announced on Thursday.

Twitter announces 100 million active users

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:10:00 GMT

Social media business model gets fleshed out

After years of silence about how many active users Twitter has, the company has finally announced a milestone worth talking about: Twitter now has 100 million active users.

Apple criticised for not blocking stolen SSL certificates

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:03:00 GMT

Security researcher says Apple 'dragging its feet'

Apple have been criticised for "foot dragging" over the DigiNotar certificate fiasco and have been urged to quickly update Mac OS X to protect users.

US Senate approves major patent system overhaul

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:00:00 GMT

The first major update of U.S. patent law goes to President Obama for his signature

The US Senate has voted to approve a major overhaul of the nation's patent system, with the legislation allowing a new kind of challenge to patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Microsoft investigates its own mobile location practices

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:27:00 GMT

Camera application on Windows Phone 7 handsets allegedly collects location data from nearby Wi-Fi and cellular networks

Microsoft said this week it is investigating a lawsuit's allegation that the camera application on Windows Phone 7 handsets collects location data from nearby Wi-Fi and cellular networks -- even if the user refuses permission to do so.

Lawson embroiled in ERP lawsuit with customers

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:56:00 GMT

Healthcare firm alleges mismanaged project

Lawson Software is embroiled in the latest instance of an allegedly failed ERP software project to become public.

IBM and 3M to make microprocessors 1,000 times faster

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:34:00 GMT

Silicon brick to power smarthphones, tablets, computers and gaming devices

IBM and 3M have announced they will jointly develop a new line of adhesives they hope will let them make it possible to build commercial microprocessors composed of layers of up to 100 separate chips.

HTC launches new patent lawsuit against Apple

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:09:00 GMT

Google patents back up new front in Android war

Armed with new patents transferred from Google, HTC has filed a new lawsuit against Apple and amended two previous legal complaints.

HP Cloud Services beta launched

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:54:00 GMT

Infrastructure as a service platform in testing phase

Carving out a space in the growing market for cloud computing, HP has launched a beta IaaS offering, called HP Cloud Services, the company announced.

Google and Oracle execs involved in mediation in Java-Android battle

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:20:00 GMT

Safra Catz and Andy Rubin will sit down to try to settle mobile OS case

Google and Oracle will send top executives to mediation in front of a magistrate judge, in a last-ditch attempt to settle their differences over Google's use of Java in the Android OS.

HP announces new range of all-in-one PCs

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:46:00 GMT

Omni, TouchSmart and Pro models

Hewlett-Packard may be looking to spin off its personal computer unit, but that didn't stop the company from announcing seven new all-in-one PCs. HP refreshed its Omni, TouchSmart and HP Pro lineups.

Lawson acquires Approva to add governance controls to ERP technology

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:40:00 GMT

Infor business unit buys up enterprise monitoring firm

Lawson Software and its parent company Infor are adding governance capabilities to their ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with the acquisition of Approva, announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal, which closed September 1, were not disclosed.

Amazon revamp offers clues about tablet

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:14:00 GMT

Amazon.com's redesigned website has a lot more white space, the messy left-hand sidebar is gone and the search bar is larger

Amazon.com is testing a redesigned version of its website, a development that's noteworthy given that the new look could be a roadmap of what Amazon is building into its runoured upcoming tablet, and how the company is fortifying its own Apple-esque ecosystem.

Google had hoped to partner with Sun on Android, papers reveal

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:35:00 GMT

Google offered to split mobile revenue

Google hoped at one time to codevelop Android with Sun, and was prepared to offer Sun a share of its mobile service revenue in return for making Java open source, according to newly released documents in Oracle's lawsuit against Google.

Data centre expenditure growth defying downturn

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:37:00 GMT

Twenty five percent growth in UK shows dependence on resilient IT

The growth of data centre expenditure by companies is defying the economic crisis, according to an in-depth report.