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  • Toshiba, Fujitsu & Hitachi to create storage giant?

    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 to buy Cognos for $5 billion

    IBM yesterday announced plans to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a US$5 billion all-cash transaction.

  • 3Com sold for US$2.2bn

    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.

  • SAP goes on-demand in Web software makeover

    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.

  • Virtualisation adds up to real dollars

    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.

  • SAP admits 'downloading' not hacking Oracle

    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 gifts code to AIDS research

    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 to acquire Altiris

    Symantec announced on Monday that it plans to acquire IT management software company Altiris, in a deal valued at approximately AU$830 million.

  • SAP's great succession debate heats up

    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 tackles risky hole in PDF

    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.

  • Mozilla: Patch Firefox now

    The Mozilla Foundation has issued "critical" security updates to vulnerabilities discovered in the Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client and SeaMonkey application suite.

  • HP chairman resigns, CEO confirms knowledge of probe

    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.

  • HP chairman: Use of pretexting 'embarrassing'

    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 fixes faulty security patch

    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 irons out security patch

    Microsoft on Tuesday in the US fixed two glitches related to one of its recently released security patches.

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