The Web today is fast becoming a basic feature of global civilization with some 1.1114 billion people dependant on it for communication, to do business, as a source of information and for social networking purposes amongst others. However, with the Internet being ubiquitous so are the harmful threats...

Samsung Electronics has said that 21 of its DDR3 solutions have been validated on Intel Corporation’s reference platform to work with Intel’s next generation Double Data Rate - Version 3 (DDR3) chipsets. This is the largest number of DDR3-based solutions to have passed the validation program...

SAP AG plans to acquire OutlookSoft Corporation, a privately held provider of integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation software. In making the announcement, SAP stated that the acquisition is expected to be completed in June 2007, pending approval from...

Hyakugo Bank and Nihon Unisys have teamed up to develop the BankVision online banking system, which has gone live. BankVision is an open banking system developed for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server. This new banking system solidifies the position of Hyakugo Bank...

In the space of a year, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has grown from a point-solution curiosity to a platform for the deployment of mission-critical application workloads for many user enterprises. Research by Saugatuck Technology also shows that the depth and breadth of enterprise SaaS impact...

Oracle has made available the Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) 10g Release 3, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. The new software delivers an ECM platform that helps organisations effectively capture, store, manage, find, publish and retain unstructured content...

Samsung said the new chips would increase competition in the flash market and also maintain the pressure that has seen chip prices fall by more than half over the last one year....

By offering an Intel-sponsored day of free global calling over Skype on Mother's Day, the two companies are encouraging users to take advantage of Internet communication via their PCs or laptops...

Red Hat, a provider of open-source solutions, has acquired MetaMatrix. The aim of the acquisition is to utilise MetaMatrix’s data-management solutions to stimulate the functional value of Red Hat's JBoss middleware for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs)...

SAP AG and Cisco Systems have entered into a global market innovation agreement to jointly develop a new breed of business solutions that can transform how applications and networks interact. These new solutions are designed to enable the business network agility that is essential...

SAP AG and IBM have revealed the expansion of their partnership to serve midsize companies in a total of 12 countries through reseller agreements for SAP All-in-One solutions, building on last year's announcement in the United States...

SAP AG has said that members of the Industry Value Network (IVN) for banks, which brings together SAP, banks and non-banks to collaboratively develop solutions for the banking industry have formed an expanded definition group to co-innovate and create global standards for enterprise...

Microsoft is planning to offer a Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) as a program to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). The program will provide ISVs with business and technical guidance, consulting services, and access to a hosting channel for the delivery of their applications to customers. For participating...

Digital road maps may have been materialized to assist with navigation requirements ensuring accurate and efficient route mapping but are quickly evolving to offer more than just a convenient heads-up on which lane to take next...

Software AG, a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provider, and webMethods, a business integration and optimisation software company, have inked an agreement for Software AG to acquire webMethods in a cash tender offer for USD 9.15 per share or approximately USD 546 million...

A survey released by Hitwise has reveals that Google’s foothold in the search engine market has risen to 64 per cent of all queries among US Internet searchers in March. This indicates Google’s prowess in the realm of the search market hogging most of it. Rivals Microsoft and Yahoo seem to be relegated to the background...

Yahoo China has rolled out a new blogging and networking service. This initiate is aimed at branching out into many sections of the market in order to rope in revenue. The new service is called Yahoo Space (yahoo.com.cn and club.yahoo.com.cn)...

HP has launched an entry-level workstation sporting a dual-core1 AMD Opteron processor, the HP xw3400 Workstation has been specifically designed for customers in key emerging markets in the region. It will be first offered in China, India, Malaysia and Singapore...

Google dominates the online text-advertising arena and is slowly planning to bid even for the online display-advertising realm. The company has expanded to try and conquer the offline advertising arena as well, but has not fared as well as the company has fared in online advertising market...

Microsoft has launched a mobile Web browser that is said to allow users to surf the Internet on wireless platforms. The new tool is dubbed Deepfish. The tool is a step to compete with rival players like Google and Yahoo...