U.S. mid-size outsourcer iGate is to acquire a majority stake in Patni Computer Systems, a larger Indian mid-size outsourcer, reflecting the need for smaller outsourcers to merge and become larger to compete.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple.

Microsoft said Wednesday that the next version of its Windows PC operating system will run on Arm processors, part of an effort to adapt Windows to the fast-growing market for tablet computers, where Apple and Google have gained traction.

The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications.

Az amerikai tőzsdei felügyelet nyomozói szerint lehetséges, hogy a HP-tól botrányos körülmények között távozott egykori vezérigazgató bizalmas információkat adott ki az EDS cég 2008-as akvizíciójával kapcsolatban.

For the first time in the company's history, Adobe Systems has generated over US$1 billion in revenue within a single fiscal quarter, it reported Monday.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an information investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mark Hurd's departure from Hewlett-Packard, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Like at least half the nerds in America, I applied to be part of Chrome OS beta testing program as soon as it was announced last week. On the surface, at least, I figured myself to be an ideal Chrome user?to a sometimes-scary extent, my life is already lived in Google?s cloud. Even on a Mac I default to the Chrome browser, where I write in Google Docs, check my feeds in Google Reader, and even sync Google Calendar and Contacts to my iPhone and iPad instead of paying for MobileMe. The company?s cloud-based operating system seemed the next logical step.

At next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will demonstrate a number of new Windows-run tablets and possibly even an early version of the next generation Windows 8 operating system, according to reports.

BMC Software announced Friday it has purchased GridApp Systems, maker of software tools for database provisioning, patching and management in physical and cloud deployments. Terms were not disclosed.

Oracle on Thursday stepped up its efforts to rebuild Sun's hardware business, announcing a high-performance clustered database system that could turn up the competitive pressure on rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

Politikai, informatikai vezetők, valamint kórházak döntéshozói érkeznek egész Európából jövő májusban Budapestre az eHealth Week (e-Egészségügy) 2011 konferencia alkalmából. Az európai digitális egészségügyi infrastruktúra fejlődésének előmozdítását célzó négy napos rendezvény programját oktatási szekcióülések, kiállítás, workshopok és számos hálózati lehetőség gazdagítja. Most először tartanak az eseménysorozaton szimpóziumokat a kórházak informatikai igazgatói számára az ambiens - infokommunikációs - rendszerekkel segített életvitellel (Ambient Assisted Living), a Health 2.0-val és az egészségügyi informatikai vezetők szerepével kapcsolatban. A konferencia az Európai Bizottság, a HIMSS Europe (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Europe) és az Európai Unió Tanácsának soros magyar elnöksége közös szervezésében valósul meg.

Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman said Wednesday.

A Centrum Exclusive Divatház Kft. a Synergon Retail Systems Kft-t választotta informatikai beszállító partnerének

Problems with its SAP system are forcing San Diego to delay a city budget audit for six months, in just the latest tale of woe for the troubled ERP (enterprise resource planning) project.

Former chief iPhone engineer Mark Papermaster has joined Cisco Systems as the head of its switching chip division.

Cisco Systems posted gains in both profit and revenue on Wednesday for its fiscal first quarter that ended Oct. 30, despite what it called "a challenging economic environment."

A Magyar Telekom elsősorban telekommunikációs szolgáltatásaival és eszközeivel a Veszprém megyei vörösiszap-katasztrófa által sújtott települések és lakosok megsegítéséről döntött.

IBM has refreshed its CloudBurst products for building a virtualized private cloud, adding configurations based on its Power7 processor on top of the x86-based systems it already offered.

Microsoft will unveil devices running its new Windows Phone 7 operating system for the first time Monday at an event in New York that some experts predict will be a make-or-break product launch.