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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has delivered a body blow to Oracle's languishing hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, suing to block the US$9.4 billion takeover because it reportedly would result in higher prices, less innovation and fewer choices. ...

Sun Microsystems has announced it will expand its HP Away programin a bid to lure Hewlett-Packard's Unix customers. The company will dangle its own Unix operatingsystem, Solaris, as an alternative to HP-UX ...

Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it will introduce a line of servers preloaded with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chips, making it the latest major computer vendor to back Intel's top rival ...

Microsoft and RSA Security have said they will work together to develop authentication technology, making it easier to secure Windows and keep sensitive corporate information safe. The announcement came at RSA's annual security conference in San Francisco ...

With a rash of major virus outbreaks still fresh in their minds, network administrators and others will flock in record numbers to the annual RSA Conference this week, where they will be met with a flood of new product and service announcements aimed at quelling security and privacy fears ...

Seeking to add clout to its fast-growing services business, Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to buy a Germany-based consulting firm for about US$420 million. ...

Hewlett-Packard said profits rose as sales improved in many of its business segments during its first fiscal quarter of 2004. Revenue totaled US$19.5 billion, up 9 percent from the same time frame in 2003. HP again turned a profit in all of its business units, marking just the second time it has done so since its merger with Compaq ...

Hoping to entice enterprises to plunge back into the information technology spending pool, Intel has unveiled a series of initiatives that it claims will make corporate computing inherently more secure and flexible ...

Yahoo has given the boot to longtime partner Google, saying its own family ofsearch tools, based on its own technology, will now return results to its users.The move puts an end to what had become an increasingly awkward relationship ...

Adding another feature to its on-demand computing initiative, IBM has released a set of tools that it says will help developers build computer applications and systems that can identify and fix their own problems before they cause havoc ...

Further solidifying its credentials as one of the biggest tech-sector success stories in recent years, Dell on Thursday posted record sales, product shipments and profits for its fourth quarter. ...

Intel has won an appeal of a 2002 patent infringement award based on the technology that powers its Itanium chip line, overturning the earlier decision and possibly saving the company more than US$100 million ...

In what could be the beginning of the end of the Oracle-PeopleSoft takeover saga, staff attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) have recommended blocking the deal because it raises antitrust concerns ...

PeopleSoft's board of directors has rejected Oracle's latest takeover bid, saying the sweetened US$9.4 billion deal still undervalues the software firm ...

Juniper Networks has announced it will buy NetScreen Technologies in an all-stock deal worth an estimated US$4 billion. The pact gives number two network gear maker Juniper instant access to a well-regarded provider of network security solutions, including firewalls and virtual private networks ...

Microsoft has reached a deal with The Walt Disney Co. to help Disney deliver content over the Internet and to mobile devices using Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) technology to prevent piracy ...

Branching out into yet another area of the Web, search engine Google has quietly unveiled a social-networking site designed to compete with the fast-growing Friendster. ...

Less than two years after posting a billion-dollar quarterly loss, data storage kingpin EMC has raced past earnings targets, posting a healthy fourth-quarter profit as demand for its storage products rose ...

Buoyed by a wave of consumer demand for personal computers, number-two chipmaker AMD's business turned profitable during the last quarter of 2003 for the first time in more than two years ...

Following the lead of high-profile Linux vendors HP and Novell, Red Hat has announced it will offer legal protection to all existing and future customers of its enterprise installations of the open-source operating system ...