EnterpriseDB has signed up FTD Group, a florist, as a customer. The move seems to be a vote of confidence for the fledgling database company, which is trying to poach customers from Oracle with the promise of lower licence fees and compatibility with Oracle applications.
Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile division has won a deal to sell Apple's iPhone in Germany starting on November 1, according to a report in a German regional newspaper.
Web surfers in the U.K. spend more time online than those in the rest of Europe or the U.S., according to results from a study released on Monday.
Google Inc. is hosting events for software developers in 10 cities around the world on Thursday, promoting the use of its tools and services to build Web-based applications.
UK bank Barclays will move 10,800 jobs to India following the recently-announced merger with ABN Amro. The offshoring move is part of an effort to generate billions of euros in annual savings.
Google has released a new version of its desktop search tool, adding a preview feature to help find information more quickly and making some improvements to the interface design.
Oracle has agreed to acquire business intelligence software vendor Hyperion for US$3.3 billion (NZ$4.76 billion) in cash.
Playing high-action video games for a few hours each day can improve your vision, according to researchers in the U.S.
Alcatel-Lucent SA has closed its acquisition of Nortel Networks Corp.'s UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) mobile infrastructure business, the companies announced Tuesday.
Users are being advised to disable a certain type of file in Microsoft's Windows Media Player software following the discovery of a new security hole in the software.
Businesses could soon have more hosted applications to choose from following a new program from Microsoft being launched initially in Europe this week.
Another open-source software group has criticized the collaborative agreement between Microsoft and Novell, accusing Novell of betraying the principles of open source and urging it to reconsider the deal.
Business Objects has agreed to buy Armstrong Laing, which makes profitability management software, for about £30 million (NZ$85 million). It expects to close the deal by the end of the year, subject to regulatory approvals and other conditions.
Red Hat has pushed out the first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, an upgrade to its operating system that includes virtualisation technologies intended to help companies get more use from their hardware.
Researchers from Intel and the University of California at Santa Barbara have found a way to build low-cost "laser chips" that could eventually shuttle data around PCs at much higher speeds than today's copper wire interconnects.