Open source goliath Red Hat, said Friday that it will be buying over Qumranet, a privately held company behind KVM ( Kernel Virtual Machine) virtualisation technology for USD 107 million...

In the second quarter of 2008, Asia Pacific (AP) server shipments posted yet another healthy growth of 15.6 % year-on-year, with revenue increased 5.4 % year-on-year, according to analyst firm Gartner...

Asia Pacific’s (AP) semiconductor sector revenue is forecast to reach almost USD160 billion in 2008, a 6.4 % increase from 2007 revenue of USD150 billion, according to the latest projections by Gartner, Inc...

Search Engine bellwether Google appears to be shaking up the browser ecosystem with the release of its own open source web browser, vying for a piece of the browser pie that is currently dominated by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox...

Communications giant Ericsson is to supply, build, integrate operate and manage multiplay communications infrastructure for Saudi Arabia’s high-tech flagship, King Abdullah Economic City...

IT bellwether Infosys made headlines this week revealing intentions of acquiring UK based SAP consulting company Axon for USD 753.1 billion. Hailed as the biggest outbound acquisition by an Indian IT company, the deal is expected to be consummated by November 2008...

Microsoft's Photosynth has finally gone live after a technical hitch on its launch day caused the site to go down for hours. Microsoft said on the Live Labs blog that demand had been simply overwhelming and that Photosynth.com had...

A new ABI study has revealed that although the overall dynamics of CDMA markets are overshadowed by the hype around UMTS/HSPA and the migration to LTE, CDMA operators continue...

Amazon has rolled out a persistent storage feature for its EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud, which should allow developers to use its hosted computing services for a much broader range of applications...

HP has announced three new ultra-portable EliteBook series of business notebooks including a 3-pound model, which is claimed to be the smallest and lightest by the company with a built-in optical drive...

In a recent announcement Microsoft said that it is dropping the additional license fees it charges customers when they move server software from one host computer to another ...

Mobile devices are the biggest-selling consumer electronics products in the world, with more than one billion shipping every year. However, the market is in a state of rapid flux, warns ABI research...

Bluetooth seems to have reached a maturation period with growth rates that, while strong, do not match the growth of the recent past, reports In-Stat in its latest study titled : “Bluetooth 2008: New Standards Signify an Increasingly Complex Market"...

Singapore has officially kicked off a six-month Near Field Communications (NFC) trial which will see electronic payments provider, NETS, working together with SingTel and United Overseas Bank to allow Singaporeans to make payments using their mobile phones...

Microsoft has made its new SQL Server 2008 database software available for public evaluation via a free download from the company's Web site. With SQL Server 2008, Microsoft is adding a number of features to improve scalability...

Microsoft is reportedly working on a project, codenamed Midori, to create an internet-centric operating system to replace Windows. Midori is a distributed operating system that appears, in part, to contain elements of Microsoft’s failed 'Cairo' and WinFS projects.

The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers is revolutionizing social networking. Location-based mobile social networking services allow users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged...

NetApp, a provider of storage and data management solutions, Wednesday established its first ASEAN regional innovation center in Singapore. Estimated to be worth USD 1.5 million, the NetApp Innovation Center (NIC) acts as a showcase center for partners and customers from ASEAN to test business-critical...