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Customer analytics vendor Acxiom has acquired analytics and predictive modeling provider Quinetix for an undisclosed sum.

Capgemini released its third-quarter results with little in the way of alarms or surprises. As one of the bellwethers to the state of the IT services market, this is good news, but it is very much a case of the calm before the storm.

Adobe systems has collaborated with UK-based chip designer ARM to jointly offer enhanced web services to ARM-based devices including cellphones and set-top boxes.

Yahoo has announced that its board of directors has initiated a search for a new CEO after Jerry Yang, co-founder of the company, decided to step down as CEO.

Two years after trying to build a consumer antivirus business, Microsoft has decide to throw in the towel.The software vendor said Tuesday that it will discontinue retail sales of its Windows Live OneCare product at the end of June next year, and instead offer Windows users free antivirus software, code-named Morro.[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog and newsletter, both from InfoWorld. ]"In order for us to focus on delivering this new security solution to millions of customers around the world, we have decided to phase out Windows Live OneCare," Microsoft wrote in a blog posting Tuesday.Morro is expected to ship by the end of 2009 and online OneCare sales will be gradually phased out sometime after that.Designed to appeal to people who have not bought antivirus software, Morro will use less system resources than OneCare. It will also have fewer features. It will protect PCs from malicious programs like viruses and Trojans, but will

ConsumerS won't be taxed for recycling electronic goods such as computers, TVs and mobile phones.

ONE day, up to 90 per cent of Facebook users will access the popular social-networking site via mobile devices, an executive said.

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SPAMMING had fallen drastically this week after Californian company McColo was shut down.