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A new report by Gartner showing that software spending will increase worldwide next year indicates there may be truth to the general belief that the technology market has hit bottom. Continued here: Gartner: Global software budgets will grow next year  Read More →

IBM preparing a new series of BI (business intelligence) products dubbed Smart Analytics Systems, the company was expected to announce Tuesday. The rest is here: IBM set to launch ‘Smart Analytics’ systems  Read More →

Palm has released webOS 1.1 as a free update to all existing Palm Pre owners. The update features slight enhancements and UI improvements across the board, a handy new feature that reminds you of specific tasks related to someone when a call from them comes in (so you never miss any opportunity to remind that one friend how... 

Ericsson’s winning bid for Nortel’s wireless assets is intended to strengthen the Swedish telecom giant’s presence in North America, company executives said during a conference call Monday. Read more here:  Ericsson’s winning Nortel bid to strengthen its North American presence  Read More →

Microsoft’s disappointing earnings for the past quarter point to signs of damage from competitive and global economic challenges that the software vendor had until recently largely deflected, analysts said. View original post here: Analysts: Microsoft Q4 results show competitive pressure  Read More →

Legislation that would create privacy regulations for online advertising could cause consumers to get fewer free services and isn’t necessary because privacy advocates have shown no harm from data collection, the co-author of a study on online advertising said. View original post here:  Can privacy and consumer protection... 

Microsoft revenue declined 17 percent and net income declined 29 percent year over year in its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter due to continued weakness in global sales of PCs and hardware servers, the company reported Thursday. See original here:  Microsoft revenue declines 17 percent in fiscal Q4  Read More →

It’s been a month and change since the mad scrable for Facebook vanity URLs this past June. And seemed like an awesome way to gimick the system back then–here’s looking at you, www.facebook.com/epicfail–has surely left some users a bit unhappy with their spur-of-the-moment choice. Read the original...