By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service\Boston Bureau 16 Apr, 2009
Sun Microsystems would be willing to revive acquisition talks with IBM if the latter company "makes a stronger commitment to complete the purchase," according to a Bloomberg News report Thursday. read more »
Apple's Mac sales in the U.S. fell last quarter compared to the same period the year before, the first time the company has posted a year-to-year slide in six years, market research firm IDC said Thursday. read more »
VMware on April 21 will release highly anticipated vSphere software, the next generation of its flagship virtualization engine, according to VMware business partner Unisys. read more »
By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service\New York Bureau 10 Apr, 2009
Just before the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems came careening to a halt, then-CEO Scott McNealy and President Ed Zander held a meeting where they discussed the future of their company. read more »
Microsoft's chest thumping last week over its 96% share of the U.S. netbook market for February doesn't appear to be just its normal bravado as the company also is charging toward dominance on a global front. read more »
IBM will be remembered as the last, best hope for Sun Microsystems. Unless you believe IBM wasn't serious and would have eventually walked away regardless, then Scott McNealy was foolish to any reasonable terms that Big Blue offered. read more »
By Marc Ferranti, IDG News Service\New York Bureau 2 Apr, 2009
A March rally on the markets brought shares in tech companies back into positive territory for the year after hitting seven-year lows, and Research In Motion got the quarterly earnings season off to a strong start, but IT sales for the year look bleaker than ever as Gartner and Forrester both slashed forecasts this week in the face of a prolonged recession. read more »
By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld (US) 2 Apr, 2009
The high-stakes, but still under-the covers battle by IBM to take over Sun Microsystems Inc. is still in play, but IBM may be rethinking what it is willing to pay for the enterprise vendor. read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
