Financial Markets

Romania Issues €100 Million To Microsoft Without Bids

Contracts are drafted to exclude any alternatives and hand the money over to Redmond, say local activists

16 years ago

IBM Offers Government Stimulus Kit On Credit

Why wait for government cash for green projects when you get the technology right now and pay later, says IBM

16 years ago

Facebook Finds A Friend In Russian VC

Digital Sky Technologies is investing in privately held Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, which becomes a 1.96 percent equity…

16 years ago

Emulex Boss Rebuffs Broadcom Offer

Emulex president and chief executive Jim McCluney in a letter to stockholders calls Broadcom's offer inadequate

16 years ago

Carbon Reporting Model To Meet Future UK Laws

With the UK government about to impose mandatory carbon accounting, PwC has produced a reporting model which it says will…

16 years ago

UK Government To Force IT Training At Suppliers

If you want government money, you'll have to show your IT  training plan, says skills secretary John Denham

16 years ago

Fault Tolerance (Re)Discovered

Fault tolerant virtualisation technologies can be hardware or software based but they don't necessarily offer the same level of protection…

16 years ago

Why The Mainframe Will Never Die

Users need support in ever more demanding workloads, greening strategies and cloud computing models, which guarantees the mainframe's continuing relevance,…

16 years ago

Digital Minister: We’ll Cut £35bn In Costs By 2011

Updated: Tom Watson has announced how smart use of IT has enabled the government to save £26.5bn across government whilst…

16 years ago

BT’s Problems Come From Global Services Unit

BT's poor results and shock redundancy plan have come about because of problems in its Global Services division, says Bathwick…

16 years ago

IT Is Key To Climate Change Control

BT and Marks & Spencer and other users are looking to IT for solutions, according to a conference on the…

16 years ago

Citrix Receiver for iPhone: Enterprise Apps Go Mobile

If you are using Citrix XenApp to distribute applications to Windows machines, you should look at Citrix Receiver for iPhone…

16 years ago

SAP Plans To Acquire Greenhouse Gas Specialist

SAP announces its planned acquisition of Clear Standards, which designs applications for measuring greenhouse gas emissions

16 years ago

Struggling Yahoo Planning New Data Centre

Yahoo continues to wrestle with the global recession and strong competition from rivals Google and Microsoft

16 years ago

Twitter Founder Denies Acquisition Rumours

In March 2009, the site had a reported 9.3 million users, boosting its popularity immensely both among the general public…

16 years ago

Oracle Is Nuts To Stick With Sun Hardware

Larry Ellison has committed Oracle to investing more in Sun's SPARC, apparently because he think servers are like iPhones. That's…

16 years ago

Green IT Is Mainstream: Now Comes The Hard Part

The move to greener IT is unstoppable - even in a recession. But IT departments have a tough job getting…

16 years ago

Cisco Reports 24 Percent Profits Fall

Product sales decreased by 22 percent, while service maintenance sales climbed by 9.4 percent, Cisco says.

16 years ago

Netbooks May Have Harmed Acer’s Revenues

Acer has pulled back its 2009 netbook shipments forecasts by several million, after reporting a disappointing first quarter

16 years ago

How To Run An Efficient Data Centre

The technology to make data centres more efficient is well-proven - but it's only implemented on a minority of data…

16 years ago

IBM Takes Brocade Equipment To Fight Off Cisco

IBM will sell Brocade's Ethernet switches under its own brand - in response to Cisco's move to sell servers

16 years ago

Motorola May Spin-Off Handset Unit

Motorola originally announced the plan more than a year ago, but the slumping economy forced it to shelve the idea

16 years ago

Job Cuts – The Biggest Security Risk Of All?

The recession is creating an army of disaffected ex-employees - many of whom will still have access to their former…

16 years ago

Sun, Do You Have A Plan B?

As its deal with IBM evaporates, Sun needs a backup plan. Chris Preimesberger thinks there might be another deal on…

16 years ago

Rackable Plucks SGI From Chapter 11

Rackable's announcement came the same day that SGI filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years

16 years ago

Google Plans Venture Capital Fund Despite Downturn

Google is setting up Google Ventures, a venture capital fund with the capacity to invest in emerging areas such as…

16 years ago