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IT services provider Atos Origin has appointed Thierry Breton as the company's new chief executive and chairman of the board. He replaces Philippe Germond who has left the group.

Microsoft has launched a new online store to enable customers to shop and compare products across its entire consumer catalog, including desktop software, Xbox, Zune, and hardware.

Reeling under the pressures of economic meltdown and lower IT spending, India-based IT services companies have taken several initiatives to maintain growth.

Fixed mobile convergence technology company Calypso Wireless has filed a patent suit in the US District Court of Texas against Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile USA, alleging infringement of its Automatic Switching of network Access Points, ASNAP, technology.

JERRY Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, will step down as the internet company's chief executive as soon as a successor is found.

After a bungled buyout offer from Microsoft, a deal with Google that fell apart and two rounds of layoffs Jerry Yang is calling it quits and stepping aside as chief executive of the company he cofounded, Yahoo said Monday.Yang, who became CEO in June 2007, will take on his former title of "Chief Yahoo" once a successor is found and remain on the board.[ Special report: The Microsoft-Yahoo saga ]He has been under intense pressure from shareholders in recent weeks for a string of perceived missteps that began in February with Microsoft's $45 billion offer to buy Yahoo. Microsoft was offering $33 per share for its Internet rival but Yang rejected that price as too low.Eventually Microsoft withdrew its offer and Yang went on to talk with News Corp. about a venture with MySpace and with TimeWarner about a merger with AOL but they came to nothing. In June he struck an advertising deal with Google but that too fell apart in the face of opposition fr

Adobe systems has released a public beta of CoCoMo, a hosted service that developers can use to add video conferencing, VoIP, and other collaboration features to applications built with its Flex developer tools.CoCoMo is an example of how Adobe plans to straddle the worlds of client and cloud computing with its tools for content delivery and application development, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said at the start of the Adobe Max developer conference in San Francisco on Monday.[ Keep up on the latest tech news headlines at InfoWorld News, or subscribe to the Today's Headlines newsletter. ]"Our view is there should be a balance of each; not wholly on the client and not wholly in the cloud," he said.CoCoMo services are hosted on Adobe's servers and aimed at developers who want to add sharing and collaboration features to an application. As well as video conferencing and VoIP, the services include file-sharing, chat, data messaging and a multi-user whiteboard.Lynch showed an app

IBM Australia has appointed a seasoned campaigner to replace Jackie Korhonen as its managed business process services head.

MEDICARE Australia wants medical specialists who have largely resisted online connectivity to come on board with its e-claiming system.

Amazon has launched a hosted content-delivery network (CDN) service that it first announced in a preliminary test version two months ago.Called CloudFront, the service joins a variety of other Internet cloud-based services that the company offers via its Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit.[ InfoWorld's Test Center reviews leading cloud providers in "Cloud versus cloud: A guided tour of Amazon, Google, AppNexus, and GoGrid" | See also: "What cloud computing really means" ]AWS offers a suite of generic computing, payment, billing, fulfillment, and Web search services so that its customers, including application developers, Web masters, and other IT professionals, can focus on the tasks in which they specialize.The AWS products are examples of cloud computing, a model in which IT vendors host software and hardware in their own data centers and make them accessible via the Internet. Since clients don't have to install the hardware and software on their premises, the