Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate, is talking to Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems, according to reports.
IBM yesterday announced plans to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a US$5 billion all-cash transaction.
Networking company 3Com has announced it will be acquired by private equity company Bain Capital and former joint-venture partner Huawei Technologies, in a US$2.2 billion cash deal.
Enterprise software giant SAP on Wednesday unveiled a midmarket on-demand service, Business ByDesign, putting it in competition with the on-demand offerings of Salesforce.com, NetSuite and archrival Oracle.
Competition in the virtualisation market is set to heat up after VMware's stock offering on Tuesday in the US showed that virtual machines equal cold hard cash.
Oracle earlier this year accused SAP of hacking into its customer support centre and stealing proprietary software code -- it turns out that SAP made some "inappropriate" downloads.
Microsoft has announced that it has released to the AIDS research community the source code for four analytical software tools, a move intended to aid the development of a vaccine for the disease.
Symantec announced on Monday that it plans to acquire IT management software company Altiris, in a deal valued at approximately AU$830 million.
Water-cooler sessions at SAP are expected to become more intense in the next month as the world's largest business applications vendor debates the future of its chief executive officer.
Adobe Systems issued updates on Tuesday for security flaws linked to versions of its Reader and Acrobat software that could allow a malicious attacker to remotely commandeer a user's computer.
The Mozilla Foundation has issued "critical" security updates to vulnerabilities discovered in the Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client and SeaMonkey application suite.
Hoping to slow a growing storm of criticism over a controversial leak probe, Hewlett-Packard said last Friday in the US that Patricia Dunn would step down immediately as chairman and board member, to be replaced by CEO Mark Hurd.
The "pretexting" technique used in a Hewlett-Packard investigation of board members and reporters has been an embarrassment for the company, Chairman Patricia Dunn said on Friday.
Microsoft on Thursday in the United States issued a "hotfix" for a fault in a security patch designed to correct a flaw already being targeted by worms.
Microsoft on Tuesday in the US fixed two glitches related to one of its recently released security patches.
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