The growing need for companies to manage surging volumes of structured and unstructured data is continuing to propel enterprise use …
Yahoo, Alibaba and Softbank reach agreement on Alipay
Alibaba Group has reached an agreement with Yahoo and Softbank over Alipay, the payment platform behind China’s largest e-commerce market, …
Dell aids team New Zealand manage social media and other IT services
Dell has partnered with Emirates Team New Zealand for the 2013 America’s Cup, providing it with social media advice and …
Information, cloud and connectivity dynamically changing enterprise IT: HP
“The enterprise world is rapidly changing; every process is becoming mobile, connected, interactive, immediate and fluid,” says Franz Munnich, HP …
CA Technologies buys Watchmouse for cloud monitoring
CA Technologies is purchasing WatchMouse, a maker of Software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based tools for monitoring mobile and on-demand applications, the company announced. …
Apple topples Nokia, Samsung as top phone maker
Apple blew by once dominant cellphone makers Nokia and Samsung to become the top smartphone vendor, with over 18% market …
Google buys 1000 IBM patents
Google has acquired more than 1,000 patents from IBM in a defensive move aimed at protecting itself from lawsuits. “Like …
Data centre startup Plexxi lands additional funding
Stealthy data centre start-up Plexxi has landed another $20 million in funding as it continues development of a network fabric …
Alcatel-Lucent gets $70 million in Microsoft patent case
Microsoft has been ordered to pay US$70 million to networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent in a years-old patent dispute that at one …
Oracle buys InQuira to boost Fusion CRM
Oracle is buying knowledge management vendor InQuira in order to improve the capabilities of its Fusion and Siebel CRM (customer …
IBM boosts services arm with research help
Hoping to boost its services offerings, IBM is assigning 200 of its researchers to the help the company manage its …
Pittsburgh looks to save money with Gmail migration
In an attempt to get away from paying for high-priced email administrators, the Pittsburgh city government is looking to save …
Domino’s: IT outsourcing ‘crucial to resilience’
Domino’s Pizza has said that a move to cloud computing, and the outsourcing of a number of its key IT …
Virgin mobile unifies IT operations for improved customer service
While most Australian telcos have CIOs presiding over dedicated IT departments, mobile network operator, Virgin Mobile, has unified its project …