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New research from Forrester predicts that spending on IT goods, services and staff will grow 7 percent in 2005 and continue at a similar pace through 2008 -- only slightly faster than overall economic growth. This finding is consistent with the cyclical nature of IT spending, where periods of digest...

Just a month after finalizing a billion-dollar settlement with California consumers, Microsoft was sued again, this time by several cities and counties that believe the software giant used its market dominance to charge artificially high prices. The suit, filed Friday in San Francisco Superior Court...

Ciber today reported that it has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire, subject to approval by German antitrust authorities, approximately 67 percent of the net outstanding shares of Novasoft AG, a Heidelberg, Germany, international consultancy specializing in implementation of SAP's products...

Microsoft announced it will target broad availability of the Windows client operating system codenamed "Longhorn" in 2006, and make key elements of the Windows WinFX developer platform, which Longhorn provides, available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft said Longhorn will deliver ma...

A federal judge has tossed out an antitrust claim filed by VeriSign against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), saying that the domain registrar failed to prove antitrust activity has taken place. The decision came after VeriSign was ordered to file additional informatio...

The Thomson Corporation and KnowledgeNet, a privately held company, have signed an agreement under which Thomson will acquire KnowledgeNet and merge it with its enterprise learning business, Thomson NETg. "The acquisition underscores our commitment to delivering high-impact integrated learning solut...

TiVo reported today that it added approximately 288,000 total subscriptions in the second quarter, more than triple the number it added in Q2 of last year. According to TiVo, the company's total installed base has more than doubled to approximately 1.9 million in the past twelve months. Service reve...

British pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of the antidepressant drug Paxil, says it will pay US$2.5 million as part of a settlement of the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

Server sales rose again in the second quarter as demand remained strong around the world, according to a report from research firm Gartner that also showed Dell and Sun Microsystems making gains along with the Linux operating system. Suggesting that at least some parts of the technology sector remai...

IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Venetica, a privately held company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Financial details were not disclosed. Venetica's operations will be integrated into the Information I...

The European Commission (EC) has launched another investigation into Microsoft -- this time over plans to take over an antipiracy software supplier. Microsoft and media group Time Warner's joint purchase of a controlling interest in ContentGuard could boost the Redmond-based software giant's dominan...

The California Assembly has approved a bill that would require employers to warn their employees if they plan to monitor workplace e-mail and Internet activities. SB 1841 -- an act to add Section 436 to the Labor Code, relating to electronic monitoring of employees -- has created a debate that pits ...

European antitrust regulators said they will conduct an in-depth review of the proposed acquisition of digital rights management company Contentguard by Microsoft and Time Warner. The European Commission said Wednesday it would proceed to a second-phase investigation of the deal, which was announced...

The scene opens. It's Google's day. The festivities are full steam ahead, the skateboarding mathematicians are jumping for joy and have thrown away their used hockey sticks while sipping champagne. They are now calculating the tractions and the centrifugal forces of their new Ferraris. Looking from ...

Oil prices continued to slide well below recent record levels Tuesday, but once again the stock market seemed to shrug in reaction. Crude futures fell for the third straight day. After flirting with the US$50 per barrel level on Friday, oil closed Tuesday at $45.25 and dipped to its lowest levels in...