Cisco Systems on Tuesday reacted to a warning from the U.K.'s National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) that it had discovered a software flaw capable of causing the company's IP (Internet Protocol) telephones to crash.
Philips Electronics will make semiconductors for consumer electronics devices capable of playing Windows Media audio and video files as part of a nonexclusive deal with Microsoft, the companies said Wednesday.
IBM is looking into ways it can leverage its Blue Gene supercomputer within the company's BladeCenter line of ultra-thin blade servers, a company executive has confirmed.
Semiconductor design company, Arm Holdings, reported a 23 per cent increase in revenue for its first quarter, its first financial report since merging with Artisan Components.
Symbian has licensed a protocol from Microsoft to allow users of mobile phones based on the Symbian operating system to synchronize e-mail and other personal data with servers running Microsoft's Exchange Server 2003.
Reuters Group has awarded BT Group a worldwide network services outsourcing contract valued at US$3 billion over eight and a half years, the companies announced Wednesday. Additionally, Reuters is selling its Radianz unit to BT for US$175 million.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has offered its first peek at "Pacifica," its virtualisation technology for use on server and desktop processors, ahead of the April launch of the Pacifica specifications.
Continuing its effort to build its business consulting unit, IBM will acquire Equitant, a provider of business transformation outsourcing services, the companies announced Wednesday.
Russian security company Positive Technologies has released a patch to a security hole it said it discovered in Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) last year.
IBM will acquire Corio, a provider of software-management services and software for businesses, in a cash deal worth US$182 million, IBM announced Tuesday.
HP's board of directors is considering a plan that would redistribute some of the day-to-day responsibilities of its chairman and CEO, Carly Fiorina, to other HP executives, due in part to the board's displeasure with the company's uneven performance, according to a report published Monday.
It may be one of the software industry's largest acquisitions to date, but Oracle expects to work out its merger plans with PeopleSoft by the end of the year and will "hit the ground running in January," according to Oracle President Charles Phillips.
The creators of the Globus open source grid software formally launched software and services company Univa on Monday with the hopes of capitalizing on their work on grid computing.
In detailing its agreement to acquire IBM's personal computing division, China's Lenovo Group has revealed data about growing warranty costs for Big Blue's PC business, and in doing so raised questions about quality control issues.
Samsung Electronics plans to invest 25 trillion won (US$24 billion) in building new semiconductor production lines by 2010, the company said Monday.
High-density servers may pack a punch in carefully-controlled data centres, but when the heat is on they melt like snowflakes
