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Gartner: SaaS enterprise app spending set to soar

Spending on SaaS (software as a service) enterprise applications will top US$6.4 billion this year, a 27 percent jump over 2007, and will catapult...

Intel, IBM open up switch specification for blades

Intel and IBM have agreed to open up IBM’s BladeCenter switch technology for more server makers to use, part of an initiative to spur...

Sun is a software company, new top shareholder says

The investment company that announced Wednesday it has taken a 21 percent stake in Sun Microsystems believes the market doesn’t get one important thing...

Opera Mini usage surges in Africa

Usage of Opera Software’s mobile-phone Web browser, Opera Mini, is picking up quickly in Africa, having increased by 180 percent from January to September...

Study: 10G, 40G Ethernet to grow rapidly despite economy

A troubled economy won’t be enough to sink increased enterprise demand for high-bandwidth Ethernet services, says a new report from Infonetics Research.

Student gets jail for crashing university servers

A 22-year-old University of Pennsylvania student has been sentenced to three months in prison and probation time, following a worldwide botnet computer bust.

Looking for job security? Try Cobol

A career as a Cobol programmer might not be as sexy as slinging Java code or scripting in Ruby, but if you buckle down...

London gears up for most wired Olympics ever

In the wake of Beijing’s Olympics, London is preparing for what will be the most demanding multimedia Olympics ever in 2012.

Voters allege e-voting machines switching votes

A handful of early voters in West Virginia have complained that electronic voting machines there switched their votes, but voting officials and the e-voting...

Expert wants government to decrease stake in NITEL

A Lagos telecommunications expert has suggested that the federal government decrease its ownership in Nigerian Telecommunications (NITEL) as much as possible rather than allow...

NetSuite luring Salesforce customers with discount offer

On-demand business software vendor NetSuite is trying to grab CRM (customer relationship management) customers from its rival Salesforce with an aggressive discount offer.

Yahoo will cut staff 10 percent or more; Q3 disappoints

Yahoo will lay off at least 10 percent of its global staff before the end of the year, the company announced on Tuesday along...

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