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An SEC affidavit filed by Sun Microsystems reveals the back story of how IBM, Hewlett-Packard and ultimate victor Oracle submitted competing bids as Sun dealt with the inevitability of a takeover
If you are using Citrix XenApp to distribute applications to Windows machines, you should look at Citrix Receiver for iPhone as a possible way to get them to mobile users
Energy Star for servers won't be a simple matter, because users will have to take account of the load on their servers and the amount of work they want to do, says Dell's David Lear
The UK government has announced more details of a "world leading" plan to roll out smart meters to every home in the country
EU Commissioner Viviane Reding calls for a well developed broadband infrastructure, smart cities and smart energy grids
SAP announces its planned acquisition of Clear Standards, which designs applications for measuring greenhouse gas emissions
Yahoo continues to wrestle with the global recession and strong competition from rivals Google and Microsoft
What does the name of Fujitsu's new blade-based data centre system, the Dynamic Cube, actually mean? Forget the speeds and feeds - Peter Judge wants occult significance
Remote networking made easy, says the wireless specialist
Cisco and HP should fear the German engineering in this brute's cooling system, and its two extra blades, says Fujitsu
The UK Department for Work and Pensions says it won't pay extra for information about the carbon impact and efficiency of IT products and services
The legal actions claim that the £4.8bn compensation proposed by Oracle is unfair and inadequate
Novell announced it will create a Moblin-based product for netbooks that it will push to OEMs and ODMs.
Mainframe vendors such as IBM and CA are aggressively pushing forward the mainframe as an alternative to more distributed environments
If your blades can go to sleep, then your hot standby network can be a bit cooler, says Extreme Networks
Updated: There's life in 3Com yet. It's pressing its home-market advantage... from its Chinese customer base
There's more to sustainable IT than low-power servers. consider the materials with which your equipment is made, and you may get a shock, says Simon Perry
Google's Gmail service reportedly failed at 11am this morning - but our evidence is there was an earlier failure with some emails not restored
Research firm Techaisle predicts netbook sales worldwide will climb in 2009 and 2010 as IT budgets get trimmed and companies look to cut technology costs
Dell is offering Nvidia's Tesla GPU technology in three of its Precision workstations, a move it says will make supercomputing capabilities more affordable to users
Cisco has formed impressive partnerships for its new UCS, but why is there no security provider.on the list?
Internet founder Vint Cerf says the address crisis is serious now - and this time Google believes it
Larry Ellison has committed Oracle to investing more in Sun's SPARC, apparently because he think servers are like iPhones. That's just silly, says Peter Judge
Siemens IT for Sustainability could be what the IT department needs to green the other 90 percent of the company
The government's weather prediction department would waste less energy if it avoided converting from DC to AC current - but it still needs more power
The chief information officer of BA defended the airline's green efforts - while sniping at "greenwash" from IT vendors
The move to greener IT is unstoppable - even in a recession. But IT departments have a tough job getting their message with the other 90 percent of the company, says Forrester's Chris Mines.
After a federal investigation, the 21-year-old man now faces multiple charges here in the United States
SSD market researcher iSuppli says the increased deployment of SSDs could enable the world's data centres to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by a whopping 166,643 megawatt hours from 2008 to 2013
Product sales decreased by 22 percent, while service maintenance sales climbed by 9.4 percent, Cisco says.