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IBM Retirement Plan Promises Jobs Through ‘13
IBM is offering employees who are nearing retirement a one-time opportunity to take advantage of a program...

Cisco offers early retirement to certain employees
Cisco this week instituted a voluntary early retirement program, its first in two years, in an effort...

HP's layoff plans and what they mean
HP is expected to announce a large layoff at its quarterly investors briefing on Wednesday, losing as...

$500M state pension software system wracked by backlogs
An expensive and long-troubled software program for California's pension system that went live last year...

AT&T packages enterprise mobile apps
AT&T on Monday made another grab for business mobile users, introducing two more hosted applications...

BoxTone Adds Automated Security to Mobile Software
BoxTone, an enterprise mobility management software provider, today announced new enhancements to its...

Enterprise Mobility: Keeping Apps and Phones Under Control
The term "mobile workforce" has been around for years, but in 2011, mobility will become even more of...

Bitzer uses virtualization to link personal mobile devices to enterprises
Company's Enterprise Virtualized Mobility (EVM) technology will help support employee-owned mobile phones...

IBM’s Watson shows up for work at Cedars-Sinai’s cancer center
IBM's Watson supercomputer has begun work with the Cedars-Sinai cancer center to develop applications...

IBM’s Watson Advises at Cancer Center
The Watson supercomputer is about to begin evaluating cancer treatment options that can be delivered...

IBM’s Watson to Diagnose Patients
Healthcare applications using the 'evidence-based medicine' are being jointly developed for Jeopardy-playing...

IBM’s Watson supercomputer to diagnose patients
Early next year, IBM plans to begin using its supercomputer, Watson, in a pilot program to assist physicians...

EMC combines Clariion, Celerra line in VNX, revamps entire storage line
EMC announced a revamp of its entire product line, dropping its midrange Clariion SAN and Celerra NAS...

Trend Micro Revamps Entire Product Line With ‘Titanium’
Following up Norton's new product launch early Wednesday, Trend Micro announced an overhaul of its entire...

IBM pushes new integrated, lower-cost Linux servers
IBM announced new "affordable" Linux servers on Wednesday as the company tries to push its...

Harman AKG releases Quincy Jones Signature Line of Headphones
Quincy Jones is a legendary record producer and composer responsible for producing Michael Jackson’s...

IBM Aquires Vivisimo to Advance its Big Data Analytics

IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based Vivisimo. The privately held company is a provider of federated discovery and navigation software that helps organizations access and analyze big data across the enterprise. Financial terms for the deal were not disclosed. [...]

EMC Harnesses Cloud Data with Greenplum Purchase
EMC announced a definitive agreement to purchase Greenplum, a privately-held provider of data warehousing...

Web.com to acquire Network Solutions
Web.com said Wednesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held domain name...

Trend Micro Purchase Boosts Data Protection
Trend Micro announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobile Armor--a company that...

Symantec to acquire Clearwell for e-discovery
Symantec today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire privately held Clearwell Systems...

Intel CISO:Biggest security threat is not understanding risk
What is the most significant vulnerability that information security faces today and in the future? According...

Fortinet secures remote and branch office environments
Fortinet, a network security and unified threat management (UTM) solutions provider, has launched a new...

The security threat Stephen King warned us about?
Remember the film "Maximum Overdrive," where machines took over and went on a murderous rampage?...

Microsoft Exposes Scope of Botnet Threat
Microsoft this week unveiled the ninth volume of its Security Intelligence Report (SIR). The semi-annual...

IBM’s new expert integrated systems line gets Linux update
IBM's PowerLinux product line got a substantial upgrade on Wednesday, as the company announced three...

Permabit extends data dedupe to Linux-based NAS
Deduplication vendor Permabit announced a product aimed at lower-end NAS systems based on Linux servers...

Windows and Linux servers grow at Unix’s expense
Demand for Windows and Linux servers is increasing at a rapid pace, at the expense of Unix servers and...

Five Reasons Linux Beats Windows for Servers
Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows,...

Enterprises extend more business apps to employee smartphones
Roughly 75% of senior IT executives plan to make internal applications available to employees on a variety...

Internal data breaches a rarity, study finds
Internal data breaches might keep CSOs awake at night, but they appear to be a rare event, a university...

Cloud architecture: Questions to ask for reliability
I've been an architect on some complex applications and I have a significant concern about assessing...

Google Tracks You Too, Internal E-mails Show
A series of internal e-mails from last year highlights how important location data is to Google, and...

Toshiba to buy IBM's retail Point-of-Sale business for US$850 million

Toshiba said Tuesday it will purchase IBM's retail point-of-sale (POS) business for US$850 million, with the Japanese company taking over the hardware business while IBM shifts its focus to back-end software solutions. [...]

Toshiba parties with lighter laptop and Android smartbook
Toshiba has spent the last 25 years refining the basic laptop design of flat screen, x86 processor, full-size...

Toshiba launches thin and light Portégé R700
Toshiba has spent the last 25 years refining the basic laptop design of flat screen, x86 processor, full-size...

Toshiba to launch 3D-capable laptop in July
Toshiba is set to become the first PC maker to put a 3D-capable Blu-ray Disc laptop on sale, it said...

DOJ: VeriFone must divest Hypercom point-of-sale unit to complete buy
The Department of Justice said today that in order to complete its acquisition of Hypercom, VeriFone...

Oracle Q2 net income jumps 17 percent, but hardware sales slump
Oracle's net income for the second quarter ended Nov. 30 rose 17 percent to US$2.2 billion, with...

September Video Game Revenue Rebounds, PS3 Sales Surge
After a stormy six months of year-over-year declines, the video games industry finally turned the corner...

Oracle Q4 net income rises 36 percent
Oracle's net income for the fourth quarter ended May 31 rose 36 percent to US$3.2 billion over the same...

SAP earnings rise as revenue continues to slip
SAP's revenue fell in the third quarter, but earnings rose -- although neither figure was as high as...

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