EBAY, which announced overnight that it was cutting 1,600 staff around the globe, says 18 of those jobs would be axed in Australia.

The Tokyo Game Show is a big event in the calendar for anyone in the gaming industry and for Hirokazu Hamamura, president of Enterbrain, the company that publishes Japan's leading game magazine 'Famitsu', it represents a chance to gauge development at each company and gather clues to future market developments.

The KVM engine may offer some efficiencies in running virtual machines that Citrix XenServer and VMware's ESX Server lack, Red Hat said.

Pramati Technologies will release new software widgets for the enterprise by January that will allow users to collaborate from within the business applications that they are using.

Bull is acquiring German high-performance computing company science + computing, and at the same time selling its Medicaid solutions business, it announced on Tuesday. The deals continue Bull's transformation into a high-end server company.

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Tuesday 7 October 2008 at 02:23:00 Microsoft chief names retired or ex-employees In a written deposition (PDF) to court Microsoft chief executive steve ballmer has denied all knowledge of the Vista Capable marketing programme that resulted in a class-action suit against the...

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Tuesday 7 October 2008 at 21:22:00 Hollywood wins first skirmish A US court has banned the sale of RealNetworks' RealDVD copying software as part of the legal case brought by six Hollywood studios....

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Tuesday 7 October 2008 at 02:26:00 British man facing 15 years in prison A British citizen is one of two men charged with launching hack attacks against retail sites in the US. Lee Graham Walker, of Bleys Bolton, England, was charged with one...

Justice security Kft, based in Budapest, Hungary, has developed a forward-looking automated solution to avoid such problems

Over 100 devices have been supplied to Dunelm Mill by Datalogic mobile Partner Pen Mobile Solutions, an independent company in the Auto ID sector