Advanced Micro Devices is trying to beat Intel on price with its latest six-core desktop Phenom II X6 processors, which were announced on Tuesday.

Microsoft is firmly on the cloud-computing bandwagon and with good reason -- it can make more money by doing so, even as it helps customers cut costs, business division head Stephen Elop said at the Convergence conference in Atlanta on Sunday.

Israel lifted a ban on imports of Apple's iPad on Sunday, saying the device conforms with local wireless standards, the government said.

Intel on Tuesday reported strong earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, with the company calling it the "best first quarter ever."

Apple has updated the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models with Intel's Core i5 and i7 processors, which will include two integrated graphics processors to improve the laptops' battery life and performance.

The latest family of Intel microprocessors, code-named Sandy Bridge, will be in production by the end of this year, while desktops and laptops with the chips will likely be on world markets in early 2011.

Intel will ship computers with an experimental 48-core processor to researchers by the end of the second quarter as the company tries to reshape its future chips.

IBM on Wednesday announced a new range of integrated systems for large-scale data analysis, mounting a fresh challenge to rival Oracle's Exadata platform.

Drivers are among the virtualization vendors' problems.

TurboHercules accuses Big Blue of freezing out smaller companies.

iSoft has secured a two-year $9.8 million contract extension from the UK's NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS).

The server-side utility transfers e-mail, calendar and contacts data from Exchange servers to Google Apps.

It could be confused with Integra Telecom's Nexus service, the patent and trademark office said.

Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM rolled-out new servers on Tuesday based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and power consumption.

US customers can get up to an $850 credit for each user who switches to Dynamics.

A number of companies plan to ride Apple's coattails with tablet devices of their own.

Third-party developers can integrate with Google's own applications.

The algorithm could help to more quickly predict weather and financial risks.

The inquiry follows complaints filed by three Google rivals.

Free Software Foundation urges Google to open source the video codec acquired with On2.