Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies’ CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Tony …
Microsoft set to acquire Skype: Report
Microsoft is close to finalizing a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies for over US$7 billion, and a …
Apple topples Google as top brand, says report
Apple has topped Google as the most valuable brand in the world, according to a study released over the weekend …
Caught in the Web
With increased use of the Internet, organisations worldover have realised the infinite benefits and challenges associated with using this channel. …
Malaysia to offer free e-mail to all citizens by 2015
Malaysia plans to offer every adult in the country a free Web-based e-mail account to ensure that tax returns, court …
Greenpeace slams Apple’s ‘dirty’ data centre
Apple has come in for stern criticism in environmental group Greenpeace’s ‘How Dirty is your Data’ report, issued this week. …
Social media essential to IT service management: Ovum
CIOs must start to think about integrating social media into their service desks as the technology becomes ubiquitous in everyday …
Salesforce.com to acquire Radian6
Salesforce.com plans to buy social media monitoring vendor Radian6, whose technology tracks conversations occurring on social sites like Facebook, Twitter …
Enterprise software getting more mobile
Mobile application development, including the need to extend enterprise applications to mobile devices, is growing in prominence, according to research …
BMW aims for cars to take e-mail dictation
BMW has developed a prototype system that allows drivers to compose full-text e-mails and text messages using voice commands. Unlike …
Citrix invests in personal cloud management company
Citrix Systems has invested in Primadesk, a company that is developing a free, Web-based application to help users keep track …
Collaboration apps need to be adapted: Gartner
IT managers implementing collaborative software such as SharePoint have been warned that simply installing applications out of the box will …
Intel to hire 4000 workers this year
Intel will hire 4,000 workers in the U.S. this year, primarily in product development and research and development, the company …
Social networks credited with role in toppling Egypt’s Mubarak
As Egypt’s embattled President Hosni Mubarak gave up his presidency Friday, analysts and some of the Egyptian protestors said he’d …
HP takes first run at tablet market
Hewlett-Packard rolled out its debut entrant into the red-hot tablet market, the HP TouchPad, as well as two new smartphones …
Sony PlayStation phone to be launched at MWC
Sony Ericsson will officially unveil its highly anticipated ‘PlayStation phone’ at Mobile World Congress this year. The Xperia Play features …
With protests growing, Egypt cuts links to Internet
As protesters continue to clash with police in anti-government demonstrations, Egypt has pulled the plug on the Internet. The cut-off …
World test day for IPv6 announced
There's been plenty of talk about the shortage of IPv4 addresses and the imminent arrival of IPv6 as its replacement. …
The next-gen contact centre
Today’s consumers demand more from the companies they do business with. They expect higher levels of service and enhanced communications …
Back to normal?
Telecom equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent saw losses grow and revenue drop during the first three months of 2010. Although, positive signs …