Facebook Inc. will sell a US$240 million minority stake to Microsoft Corp., which as part of the deal will also expand the advertising services it provides to the social networking phenom, the companies said Wednesday in a statement.

A HP bővíteni kívánja a Business Technology Optimization (BTO) portfólióhoz tartozó „szolgáltatásként nyújtott szoftverek” (Software-as-a-Service, SaaS) kínálatát, hogy még több ügyfelének segítsen gyorsan és gazdaságosan kihozni a maximumot szoftverberuházásából.

Microsoft Corp. this week blamed "human error" on the part of its IT staff for a server problem that caused the company's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation service to incorrectly tag legitimate users of Windows XP and Windows Vista as software pirates.

Yahoo Inc. will close an almost two-year public test for its new version of Yahoo Mail on Monday with several new enhancements, as the Sunnyvale, California, Internet giant boosts this Webmail service that is key to both its usage and advertising growth.

Microsoft Corp. has partnered with handset manufacturer Nokia Corp. to deliver some of its Windows Live services on wireless handsets in Europe and the Middle East.

Dell Inc. has agreed to acquire ASAP Software Inc. in a move to meet demand from large customers for tools and services that help manage their software assets.

Elérhető a Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 frissítőcsomag és az új Virtual Machine Driver Pack.

Az IFS globális ERP megoldásszállító partneri megállapodást kötött, a Tata Consultancy Services-zel (TCS), hogy közösen nyújtsanak vállalati eszközgazdálkodási (EAM), valamint szolgáltatás-menedzsment megoldásokat az IFS ügyfeleknek. A partnerség – melynek célja a meghatározott iparágakban új üzleti lehetőségek generálása mellett, a meglévő ügyfelek támogatása – egy agilisabb megközelítésmód alkalmazását jelenti a globális vállalatoknál végzett IT projektek megvalósításában.

The European Union's antitrust regulator has fined telecommunications operator Telefónica SA ?152 million (US$207 million) for overcharging its competitors for wholesale access to broadband services in Spain. But competing operators say the fine is still not enough to ensure fair competition in Europe's telecommunications markets.

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday started limited beta offerings of Windows Live file and photo sharing services.

Maven Networks, which provides hosting services for Internet TV, will announce Wednesday plans to add Microsoft's new Silverlight technology as a video delivery vehicle.

EBay Inc. is getting into the radio advertising business, becoming a broker of ad spots and on its way to competing with Google Inc., which provides a similar service.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has tried and failed to develop spectrum auctions that allow startup companies to get into the mobile service provider industry but now Google thinks it has a better idea.

Microsoft Corp. plans to acquire aQuantive Inc., a digital marketing services agency, for around US$6 billion in order to grow its Internet advertising business, it was announced Friday.

Mozilla Corp. developers are experimenting with a service that lets users store online content on a remote server and access that information on cell phones.

Microsoft Corp. has closed the public testing period for Windows Live Hotmail and has begun a months-long process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its Hotmail Web mail service, the company will announce Monday.

IBM Corp. laid off 1,315 U.S. workers from its global services division, a union group under the Communications Workers of America said Tuesday.

New data from eBay shows that its Skype VOIP service is still picking up lots of new users, but at a slower rate than in previous quarters.

The owner of a blog dedicated to software patches has posted online more than 100 fixes he said are expected to be included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft Corp.'s first major update to its latest Windows client OS.

A Novell évente megrendezendő BrainShare konferenciáján bemutatta nagyvállalati felügyeleti megoldásait Linuxra és vegyes platformokra, bejelentésre került a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 és az Open Enterprise Server 2 nyílt bétaverziói is. A BrainShare 2007 konferencia fő szponzorai az AMD, a GWAVA, a HP, az Intel, a Messaging Architects és a Microsoft voltak.