Lenovo is in talks to acquire PC makers, a sign that it is taking advantage of a stagnant market to expand its worldwide presence.

Az IDC 2008. II. negyedéves jelentése alapján (IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker) a Sun Microsystems kiváló eredményeket ért el a lemezes adattárolók piacán. A Sun a negyedév során elért 29 százalékos bevétel növekedéssel maga mögé utasította az összes jelentős szállítót, és a piaci átlaghoz képest háromszoros növekedést produkált.

The worldwide PC market grew at a healthy 15.3 percent in the second quarter but the weak economy means tough times and possibly a wave of consolidation may lie ahead for PC makers, according to surveys released Wednesday.

Hewlett-Packard is in advanced talks to acquire IT services company Electronic Data Systems in a deal that would give HP more competitive muscle against worldwide services market leader IBM.

The economic slowdown in the U.S. has led Gartner to revise its 2008 worldwide PC shipments forecast downward slightly but the analyst firm is still predicting a strong year, particularly in the mobility space.

Strong laptop sales are making this a hot holiday shopping season for PC makers, according to a report from IDC.

Forty students from around the world got to pitch their software projects to Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday as part of a worldwide software development challenge.

For his traditional last-minute surprise near the end of the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company is releasing a beta of its Safari browser that runs on the rival Windows operating system.

As Windows Vista appeared in computer stores worldwide, Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that part of the design of the new operating system is the work of the European Commission.

A Data Access Worldwide kiadta a Visual DataFlex fejlesztőeszköz legújabb, 12-es verzióját, amely most ingyenesen ki is próbálható.

Microsoft Corp. said Friday it is on track to launching Windows Vista simultaneously worldwide. Less than a month ago it warned that antitrust problems could delay the launch in Europe and South Korea.

Toshiba Corp. will later this year put on sale worldwide new microSD and SDHC memory cards, the company said Wednesday.

A Gartner Dataquest piackutató cég 2006 első naptári negyedévére készített Worldwide Server Database című felmérése szerint a Sun növelte részesedését a szerverek világpiacán.

Worldwide server revenue remained flat at US$12 billion in the first three months of the year, bucking several consecutive quarters of year-on-year growth, research firm Gartner Inc. said Tuesday.

Thirty-five percent of the packaged software installed on PCs worldwide in 2005 was pirated, the same percentage as in 2004, according to a study released Tuesday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

Imation, a worldwide supplier of removable data storage media, has announced that it has begun its scale-up of manufacturing for HD-DVD and Blu-ray optical recordable media in preparation for product introduction early this year.