IDC is predicting that worldwide IT spending will jump 3.8 percent this year, to $1.47 trillion (£1.02bn)
The storage giant settles suit claiming it induced the General Services Administration (GSA) to sign a contract including pricing based…
The UK is leading the way in turning the tables on software vendors and providers in terms of liability
Salesforce chief Marc Benioff used strong language during a recent earnings call to describe a patent-infringement lawsuit brought by Microsoft
Mayor Boris Johnson's plan for public Wi-Fi in London might not make it through the cuts, warns the Cloud
Successful IT companies get targetted by regulators, says Clint Boulton. First it was Microsoft, soon it will be Google, and…
A new report finds high performance needs are driving early successes for flash SSDs in the enterprise server sector
IBM has introduced pushing a new technology to allow Sybase ASE applications to connect to a DB2 DBMS
The Tory / Lib Dem government plans to top-slice the BBC licence fee to pay for faster broadband
Dell reports net income of $584 million for its first fiscal quarter and considers the tablet PC will create a…
A German decision has gone against EU policy and advice from open source experts, making software patentable
While bankers bin their BlackBerries for iPhones, Biffa is giving them to bin men
The search giant introduces Chrome Web Store so 70 million users of its web browser can find create shortcuts to…
Google launches new version of hosting platform and a VMware partnership to help bring enterprise Java developers to the cloud
Google has opened up Google Wave to everyone for free, one year after introducing the real-time collaboration platform to Google…
Digital manifesto for the region faces criticism on open source and copyright expectations
Microsoft has gone legal and slapped Salesforce.com with a patent infringement lawsuit, alleging its CRM service infringed nine Redmond patents
IT departments within the SMB community are expanding their budgets and jumping on the virtualisation and cloud bandwagon
The UK Electoral Commission admits that it has no system in place to monitor the activities of users who are…
The IT industry will be hit by spending cuts in the UK budget, but green vendors could see fresh opportunities
Now ordinary people are concerned about Facebook's privacy practices, Larry Walsh asks: will they change their behaviour?
Microsoft is to pay $200 million (£138 million) in order to settle a patent-infringement suit from communications specialist VirnetX
The bean counters at tech companies are sounding an optimistic note over the state of the economy and jobs market
Data centres are set to face a rapid rise in problems associated with power, cooling and space, thanks to the…
The open source FSF group has recruited a former proprietary software exec to make the GNU Project's work more accessible
The combined entity of Orange and T-Mobile has been named Everything Everywhere, but the two brands will remain autonomous
The US IT industry added a net gain of 8,800 jobs in April, reversing job losses in March
A man has been fined £1000 after posting a joke on Twitter about blowing up a snow-bound airport
Retina-X Studios has released Mobile Spy for the Apple iPad, pitching it as a way for businesses to keep an…
Amid economic pressures and technological advances, keeping up with the market becomes an issue. The answer is good management, says…