Cloud Sherpas, a provider of services and software for Google Apps, has closed a funding round worth US$1.6 million and will use the money in part to develop vertical-market applications for the cloud-hosted collaboration and communication suite.

Google on Tuesday said it won preliminary approval to settle a class-action lawsuit related to alleged privacy violations caused by its Buzz service.

• A Novell fő támogatásával rendezték meg Nürnbergben az openSUSE konferenciát, ahol a nyílt forráskódú közösség egyik legfontosabb kérdésére keresték a megoldást: hogyan lehet a fejlesztő csoportok együttműködését összehangolni a határokon át? • Az openSUSE konferencia további kiemelt témái: az openSUSE Build Service fejlesztői keretrendszer újdonságai, a Bretzn projekt bejelentése, a LibreOffice eredményeinek és az openSUSE KKV-knak szánt Invis Serverének bemutatása és az oktatás segítése

Google and a reseller of its products have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior after the agency solicited bids for cloud-based e-mail and messaging services specifying that bidders must use Microsoft products.

IBM said Monday that third-quarter net income rose 12 percent to US$3.6 billion, buoyed by strong performance in Brazil, Russia, India and China as well as solid sales of analytics software and services.

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Intel and South Korea's KT Corporation plan to work together to expand WiBro (Wireless Broadband) Internet service to several new areas of South Korea and and have worked to make the network compatible with mobile WiMax.

A Venezuelan man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for stealing and then reselling more than 10 million minutes of Internet phone service.

Goldman Sachs' investment research arm expects a coming boom in wireless data consumption fueled by 4G wireless services and the rise of mobile tablet computers.

A felhőben elhelyezkedő SUSE Linux Enterprise Server igény szerinti használaton alapuló díjazás ellenében vehető igénybe, köszönhetően a Novell SUSE Cloud Programjának, amelyhez az Amazon Web Services-en kívül többek között az IBM és a Fujitsu is csatlakozott.

Leapfactor, an SAP partner and start-up, today announced a cloud-based system to support mobile applications, including back-office custom applications for accounting and customer support.

Google and AOL have renewed a long-term partnership that gives AOL Web properties access to Google search and advertising services.

Google has acquired Like.com, which offers a visual search engine for retail products, a deal aimed at boosting Google's shopping search capabilities and services like its Products engine.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the company's latest creation, a foray into the world of location-based services called Facebook Places.

A little more than a year after the service was launched, Google is pulling the plug on its Google Wave social-networking service, the company said Wednesday.

Despite fears caused by the European debt crisis, spending on technology products and services is set to continue growing around the world, although the pace of growth in Europe overall will be lower, Forrester Research said in a report released Tuesday.

Microsoft is giving its partners tools that could help drive more business to its cloud-based services.

IBM unveiled on Tuesday a new package of pre-integrated software applications, called the Financial Markets Industry Framework, configured for the financial services market.

WiMax service provider Clearwire on Thursday introduced its first 4G/3G modem that works with Mac laptops, as well as its first Wi-Fi hotspots with integrated 4G or 4G/3G radios.

Twitter is recovering from an unspecified technical problem that affected the microblogging service's main site and its APIs (application programming interfaces) for about one hour late Tuesday morning.