Electrons don't like to sit still. That's why the electricity grid has developed over the last 150 years without the benefit of energy storage.

The PC division contributes to HP's long-term relationship with customers, the company says.

Speaking at a conference, the Microsoft CEO also expressed satisfaction with the progress of the Bing search engine.

IBM's new mainframe and Power-based servers come with analytics and database software.

In a court brief related to its battle with Oracle, Google also says the offending code has all been removed in the next version of Android.

Apple's co-founder and chairman had struggled with a rare form of pancreatic cancer for a number of years.

The new High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) technology, developed by BalaBit IT Security, revolutionizes the global logging market: it is capable of handling up to 1.000.000 log messages* per second.

Interest in next iPhone 'unprecedented,' says one recycler.

LPDDR3 will succeed LPDDR2 and ramp up performance in tablets and smartphones while consuming less power.

Amazon has created a new browser for the Kindle Fire tablet, one with a cloud-based architecture.

Facebook hopes to match all features of its website on mobile platforms.

A proposal calls for new releases of Extended Support Release versions of desktop Firefox only every 30 weeks.

Lest we forget that Microsoft still insists Linux violates 235 of its patents, Microsoft issued a reminder today. It announced a patent licensing deal with Casio Computer Co. Ltd. that "among other things, will provide Casio's customers with patent coverage for their use of Linux in certain Casio devices," Microsoft says.

HP has started laying off workers associated with last year's billion-dollar acquisition of Palm, as it closes down the mobile device business it planned to base on Palm's webOS. The news comes almost exactly a month after HP announced a sweeping reorganization and refocusing of its business.

With the next version of its Hyper-V software, Microsoft has found a way to move live VMs across different subnets.

The availability of Google Wallet will be announced within weeks.

The CEE Board is an advisory body in collaboration with logging tool and operating system vendors and the government of the United States, providing valuable input on the CEE Log Standards. BalaBit, with its existing pattern database (patternDB) and syslog-ng user group (650 000 companies word-wide) is an active contributor of logging standards creation.

Japanese firms will team with Samsung to design chips for new smartphones and challenge Qualcomm, the Nikkei newspaper said.

Google hoped that Sun would partner with it to bring Android to market, according to court documents.

Microsoft on Tuesday blacklisted all DigiNotar certificates after seeing active attacks from at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by DigiNotar. The company has released updates for all versions of Windows with the new blacklisted data.