Rumour Mill : IBM to buy AMD

Microsoft Office 365 can greatly reduce business IT costs, should a company require the complete package but what if a business only requires Microsoft Office without the Lync, Exchange or Sharepoint components, would Office 365...

'neb·u·lous' - adjective - cloudy or cloudlike - Dictionary.com 'Lick' has a lot to answer for. In 1963 Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, 'Lick' to his friends, wrote a memo to his colleagues entitled 'Members and...

Financial news service Bloomberg has reported that the Google plans to use Motorola's patents to move into the hardware business by merging together has been temporarily suspended, by EU regulators. Bloomberg has it that the...

Samsung, as we wrote recently, is the US tech industry's new bogeyman. It's far too big and powerful for the liking of the likes of Apple or Intel, never mind HP or Qualcomm. While we didn't think much of the rumours that...

Market experts and tech critics have cited the merger of Motorola Mobility and Google Inc as one of the major gambles so far by the search giant; the deal is already being contested by one of the shareholders of the mobile...

Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha has claimed that the Smartphone market will evolve with hardware-software collaborations.Speaking during an interview with Fortune, Jha hinted a consolidation in the future of the company but it...

Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison on Wednesday exalted the completion of the long pending $7.4 billion takeover of the beleaguered software & hardware company Sun Microsystems, after the European Commission cleared off the...

The competition amongst major players in the networking equipment market is likely to go up in any of them manage to purchase Brocade, a company known for its robust storage and networking solutions.  Amongst the names...

The European Commission's decision to investitgate Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems under competition rules could lead to a major rift with US authorities, a competition law expert has warned. Alan Davis, a competition law...

The office cleaner wanders around the IT department emptying bins into a black plastic sack. He bends below each desk to look for stray sandwich wrappers and plastic cups. Whilst he’s under the desk, it is a matter of seconds for...

This year's Data Center Summit was all about the obvious and the not so obvious.