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A number of companies are opting not to embrace Redmond's latest operating system and, like GM, are waiting for Windows 7 instead

Reports that Hewlett-Packard wants to acquire the tech-services outfit sent EDS shares up 28%. Should IBM be worried?

The mobile-phone giant's planned turnaround may involved selling off assets to comply with lenders' agreements

The WorldWide Telescope lets amateur astronomers explore the cosmos through a computer, which provides a photo map of the heavens

Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft will likely pass the legal litmus test, a number of legal experts say. Shareholders have sued after the Web portal...

Shares of Research In Motion hit an all-time high on Monday as the company unveiled a new cell phone it hopes will dissuade business customers...

A DATA centre business set up by Royal Bank of Scotland at the height of the dotcom boom is eyeing a push into the west of the country as it looks to double turnover over the

A GERMAN microchip developer specialising in the automotive and portable music sectors is to set up a new design centre in Edinburgh creating "at least" 20 jobs by the end of

Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday it is buying Electronic Data systems for about $13.9 billion in cash, as it aims to step up competition for the computer services business with rival IBM.

Late last year Mark Zuckerberg, the 24-year-old CEO of social-networking phenomenon Facebook, got onstage before a Madison Avenue crowd and declared that he was leading a once-in-a-century media revolution. Long story short: The revolution hasn't panned out. Six months later, advertisers could be forgiven for mistaking Facebook for a smaller MySpace or a much larger Friendster (remember them?). And far from changing media as we know it, the virtual home of Superpokes, Funwalls, and other such time wasters is showing cracks in its foundation.