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Sage buys Integral Computers for €20m
British accountancy software group Sage has bought Dublin-based Integral Computers for up to €20m in cash. Integral Computers, a payment processing provider, was founded in 1989. It provides...


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Microsoft teams up with 24/7 for customer service software
Microsoft has entered into a broad partnership with customer-service software provider 24/7 that the companies expect will yield a superior cloud-based platform that large companies can use to better...
Large data center coming to India, as regional demand booms
Tulip Data Center Services is setting up a 900,000 square foot (83,612.7 square meters) data center in Bangalore, the largest in India, to benefit from scale and target growing demand for...
Upcoming Microsoft CRM clients may mean more productivity
CRM applications on mobile devices already improve productivity 14.6% for sales staff that use them, says Rebecca Wettemann, vice president of research for Nucleus Research, and these native apps...
HP to let partners host LoadRunner
Hewlett-Packard's LoadRunner performance validation software will become available on a hosted basis through HP partners, the company announced...
India builds a mega data center
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and power. It's also among the largest in the...
Sony merges PlayStation Network into broader online services
message to PlayStation Network users that their accounts will be rebranded under the Sony Entertainment Network. Online PlayStation users will be rerouted to a new login screen for the more general...
Amazon Web Services lowers price of storage in its cloud
Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3) -- saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill,...
OnLive's train wreck: Office on the iPad
one of the media hits was OnLive Desktop , a service that provisions a Windows 7 desktop environment that includes Microsoft Office 2010 to the iPad over an Internet connection. For many, the idea of...
The rise of Node.js: JavaScript graduates to the server
Node.js is gaining traction as an application development platform, letting developers extend JavaScript beyond the browser and into servers. But questions remain about JavaScript's...
BzzAgent 2.0: Dave Balter on the company's 'big data' transformation
Courtesy | Dave Balter BzzAgent founder and CEO Dave Balter said the company's acquisition by Dunnhumby has transformed his company into a "big data"...
Calif. fund eyes Zuckerberg's Facebook control
Mark Zuckerberg over his dominant voting power in the company he founded. The fund is a Facebook investor and it may jump into the debate over whether Zuckerberg's 56.9 percent voting power...
Verizon, Redbox partner on DVD, streaming service
Follow this company have formed a new joint venture in which the two companies plan to combine Coinstar's Redbox new-release DVDs and Blu-ray disc rentals with an on-demand streaming...
Verizon, Redbox team on joint venture
Follow this company said Monday they have formed a new joint venture. The two companies plan to combine Coinstar's Redbox new release DVDs and Blu-ray disc rentals with an on-demand...
The Domain getting a Microsoft retail store
Follow this company plans to open its 16th retail store at The Domain shopping center in North Austin. The Redmond, Wash.-based company (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced three years ago that it...
Emerson sees Q1 profit fall 23%
Follow this company said today that net earnings for its fiscal first quarter fell 23 percent to $371 million on net sales that fell 4 percent to $5.5 billion. The impact...
Facebook struggles with mobility
Follow this company , which filed for a public offering last week, disclosed in its paperwork that although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device,...
3M may spend $250M on corporate jets
Looking for a used corporate jet? 3M might be willing to sell as it considers spending up to $250 million to upgrade its five-plane fleet. ...
Mo. House Committee pushes tax credits for data storage
A Missouri House committee on Monday approved two bills that would give tax incentives for building underground data storage centers and for bring amateur sporting events to Missouri, St. Louis...
Kodak cuts 80 jobs in Kettering
Follow this company confirming it will lay off about 80 workers at its Kettering operations this month, according to WDTN-TV Channel 2. The future of some 500 local Kodak jobs has been in...
Top Models Share all the Glitz and Glamour of the Fashion Show with Samsung's
High-profile fashion insider Derek Blasberg and Next Models Use the Galaxy Note to Take Fans Behind the Scenes at Fashion Week's Top...
Nearly 4 mln computers infected by viruses in December: Chinese security center
BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- A total of 3.94 million computers in China were infected by viruses in December 2011, a national computer security monitoring center said Tuesday. The number of infected...
Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere
Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product. "It happened so recently that we're still in the process of analyzing and...
TCP Code revised to include new provisions
The revised Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code by the Communications Alliance has included new provisions such as regular customer usage notifications for voice, SMS and data...
Oracle asks for retrial against SAP in TomorrowNow case
Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about US$1 billion by a federal court in September last...
Rumour: 7mm thick Galaxy S III to be unveiled next month?
Samsung's next flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S III, may be officially unveiled in March and will be just 7mm thick, according to the latest...
PCEHR on track for 1 July rollout
The rollout schedule for the Federal Government's Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project is currently on track, according to the Department of Health and Ageing...
More Australians switch on IPTV: Study
More than 300,000 Australian households have changed channels to subscription IPTV which could pose challenges for operators such as Foxtel, according to a new study by analyst firm,...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: most generous living donor
Paul Allen was the third most generous donor in America last year, and the most generous one still alive. This is Allen's 10th year on the list. Only two donors have made the list more times:...
Top Congressional stock picks: Microsoft beats Apple
Follow this company . Stock ownership by members of Congress has been an issue recently after several media reports that were critical of what some viewed as politicians capitalizing on...
Computers stolen from government office
AVON, Ind. (WISH) - Laptops loaded with classified and personal information were swiped over the weekend from the Department of Child Services in Hendricks County. The initial concern was identity...
B.C. needs to be sold on Gateway, minister says
The Alberta government, keen to sell its oil to Asian markets, recognizes that it will have to share with British Columbia some of the "rewards" it will glean from the construction of a...
EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions
VFCache went on sale Monday as a PCIe card for cached data in servers, which will use EMC's FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) software. In the second quarter, the company will start...
Next round of e-health funding finalised, three months over schedule
At least three months after it was scheduled to allocate the next round of funding for the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project, the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA)...
Microsoft opens C++ extension for other compilers
Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing...
Top 7 Truths About Consumerisation of IT
Users are no longer ignorant about technology. Many are both passionate and knowledgeable. And consumer-grade tools are more and more capable for business usage -- and sometimes even superior than...
Conroy spruiks Safer Internet Day
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), together with Senator Stephen Conroy, have launched Safer Internet Day, an initiative designed to encourage cyber...
AMD execs tout firm's tablet plans
With new CEO Rory Read at the helm for about six months, Advanced Micro Devices has turned its attention to the lucrative and burgeoning tablet...
Adobe launches sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox, hopes for fewer exploits
"The design of this sandbox is similar to what Adobe delivered with Adobe Reader X Protected Mode and follows the same Practical Windows Sandboxing approach," said Peleus Uhley, platform...
Web giants remove content on India's order
Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest...
Telstra expected to report earnings lift
Telstra Corporation is expected to report a double-digit increase in first half profit as the telco grows market share, particularly in mobile, and keeps costs in...
Small business lags on computer security
Small businesses have embraced the internet but 16 per cent don't use anti-virus software and 30 per cent don't use a protective firewall, a new study...
After Megaupload shuts, BTJunkie follows
BTJunkie, a popular file-sharing indexing site, says it is voluntarily shutting down, less than three weeks after the US closure of Megaupload in a crackdown on piracy of music, films and other...
Online dating now 'mainstream' in US
The researchers said internet dating was a great help to single people in Western societies, for whom matchmaking was "grossly inefficient" after leaving school or...
Optus launches business NBN plans
Australia's number two telco, Optus, has launched a range of internet plans over the National Broadband Network's (NBN) first five mainland release sites targeting small...
CIOs, CTOs confident in growth prospects in 2012
Despite global economic uncertainty, Australian chief information officers (CIOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs) are looking to 2012 with confidence in their business' growth prospects,...
Macs take on the enterprise
For many years, Macs were perceived as being more for the creative folks, such as art designers, but had no role in a workplace where data processing was the main job. So when companies made bulk...
Microsoft Store coming next to Apple's at Stanford Shopping Center
Follow this company in San Jose. The store has been under renovation for some time but posters went up in the past week announcing that it will be a Microsoft store. The San Jose store...
First a deal with Verizon; now Coinstar buys a competitor
Follow this company that owns Blockbuster Express movie kiosks - a key competitor to Redbox. The deal is subject to regulatory approval but is expected to close in the third quarter of...
Honeywell sues smart thermostat maker Nest over patents
Follow this company said on Monday it has sued smart thermostat developer Nest Labs Inc. for patent infringement. The lawsuit filed at United States District Court for the District of...