Enterprise IT

Applied Materials announced plans to reduce its workforce by 1,000 as part of a global cost-cutting move. The company, one of the largest suppliers of semiconductor equipment, said the year-long reductions would come through job elimination and attrition. It will take a $20 million charge for the re...

Just months after it decided to stop its legal battles against the landmark EU antitrust finding, Microsoft now finds itself facing new inquiries into claims that the software giant abused its market dominance. The European Commission is looking into accusations that Microsoft used its power in the ...

IBM posted strong fourth quarter results Monday, beating profits and sales targets as it rode to the rescue of a sagging stock market by providing renewed optimism about technology earnings. Big Blue's profit rose 24 percent to $2.80 per share in the fourth quarter of 2007 while revenue increased 10...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating Intel for possible illegal business practices meant to keep rival AMD at bay -- the latest development in an ongoing antitrust entanglement for the leading chipmaker. Cuomo's office has issued a "wide-ranging" subpoena to California-based Intel...

Ever notice that Microsoft -- with cash to burn, apparently -- waits for the obvious to become inevitable and then ends up paying huge premiums for companies in order to catch up to reality? We saw it with aQuantive, Softricity and Groove Networks. It's happened again with Tuesday's $1.2 billion bid...

Understanding the business and technical reality of your software assets is imperative in order to align them with corporate priorities. The ability to predict a body's responses to environmental triggers can have significant therapeutic benefits. A researcher could analyze the "compliance" of your...

Bidding to reshape its image, Xerox is launching a major rebranding effort meant to encourage business customers to think of it as an innovation company, not just a leading maker of copiers. The new image is meant to reflect the needs of today's business and to be "a bit less formal, a lot more live...

Shares of leading chipmaker Intel lost more than 7 percent in midday trading Friday after the company's stock was downgraded for a second time in a week. JP Morgan analyst Christopher Danely downgraded the company on Friday, citing rising inventory levels at personal computer makers and a likely slo...

Some recent Iona Technologies announcements point up the growing practice of multiple ESBs within enterprises, often associated in a federated manner, and sometimes using ESBs tasked with specific types of integration duties. Iona is taking a "hybrid" approach to ESB offerings, with a coordinated op...

IBM has teamed with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment software company, to develop a payment system powered by IBM's open standards based System Z platform. The new offering will include IBM's DB2 database, WebSphere middleware and Tivoli management software as well as its Crypto-chip technology...

A Silicon Valley startup with an unlikely name announced Monday a new platform designed to enable telephony in a wide variety of applications. Using an open platform to facilitate connections between telephony and the Web, Ribbit is working with a community of more than 600 developers to help voice-...

China-based software company CDC raked in the most revenue for a third quarter of its history but nevertheless suffered a net loss of more than US$7 million, a situation blamed in part on "pirate" servers allowing people to play its online game Yulgang without authorization. The Q3 report by CDC, wh...

Possibly causing worldwide feelings of deja vu, Opera Software has filed a complaint with the European Commission that says the bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system amounts to unfair monopolization. Opera, based in Norway, developed and distributes the Opera Web browser. I...

Dell added another big gun to its fast-growing retail arsenal Thursday, saying it would begin selling some of its personal computers at hundreds of Best Buy stores across the U.S. The partnership may come too late to give Dell an immediate boost during the holiday season, however, with the Round Roc...

Living up to a promise it made investors, Dell announced Tuesday it will return to buying back its stock now that an internal accounting investigation is concluded. The stock repurchases will begin this week with the buying back of $10 billion worth of shares, the Round Rock, Texas, computer giant s...