Based on Slackware, this tiny, 210 MB distro offers a GUI and a variety of preinstalled apps.

Popular Android apps such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Gmail do not always require a log-in each time they are launched, leaving them open to misuse.

Apple's planned investment of $100 million next year in a U.S. manufacturing facility is relatively small, but still important. Apple has the money, talent and resources to build a highly automated factory that turns out products that are potentially cost competitive with those it now makes in China.

As 2012 comes to a close, the ERP software market's biggest players, Oracle and SAP, are seeing their long rivalry become a stalemate, while they face a common set of enemies in the form of upstart ERP vendors based in the cloud, such as NetSuite and Workday.

BufferBox operates a network of storage lockers where people can receive deliveries when they're not home.

Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Cariden Technologies, a Sunnyvale, Calif., developer of network planning, design and traffic management software for service providers.

An Italian firm sells a mannequin that has a camera built into one of its eyes.

Apple alleges Samsung's latest products infringe on its patents

Apple is said to have taken ownership of 1,024 patents acquired by the Rockstar Consortium - of which Apple is a major stakeholder.

Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Cloupia, a software company that develops products for automating data center operations for the deployment and configuration of physical and virtual resources.

Apple says it's just the store, but judges ruled that it profited from the sales.

Australian telecommunications provider, MyNetFone (MNF), has announced that it will purchase Melbourne-based Internet service provider (ISP), Connexus, for $4.75 million in cash.

The smartphone makers have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement that ends their conflict

The move heats up Oracle's rivalry with IBM and CA in the PPM market

Middleware vendor Thought says Oracle is knowingly infringing on a number of its patents

Networking vendor, Brocade, is buying California-based Vyatta as part of its research and development (R&D) investments in Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networking (SDN). Vyatta is an SDN operating system vendor whose solution is relevant for multiple applications in network virtualisation, SDN, and private/public Cloud computing platforms.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan, which the lab hopes will give the U.S. an edge over China and Japan in the race to build the world's fastest computers.

Information about sales, profits and margins for specific Apple products should be made public, the judge hearing the company's lawsuit against Samsung Electronics ruled on Wednesday, though a higher court's decision could keep the data from ever being revealed.

Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70% stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for $20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators.

An Arizona man has admitted his involvement in a May 2011 computer attack against the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment that was carried out by the now-defunct LulzSec hacker group.