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Microsoft Joins Efforts to Take Dell Private: Reports

Microsoft reportedly is joining the effort to buy Dell and take the company private, a move designed to help jump-start the struggling PC maker's...

BYOD Rapidly Going Global, Good Technology Study Finds

Many organizations are expanding their support for the bring-your-own device (BYOD) phenomenon beyond the United States to their operations overseas, according to an annual...

AMD Still Battered by PC Biz, But Confident in Turnaround Plan

Advanced Micro Devices officials reported another difficult financial quarter for the chip maker, which again was battered by slowing sales of PCs worldwide.AMD officials...

DDoS Attackers, Network Defense Firms Record Banner Year

In the last quarter of 2012, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks increased in quantity, bandwidth and duration, with seven attacks topping bandwidths of 50G bps,...

IBM Q4 2012 Profits Up 6 Percent on Software, Hardware

IBM announced fourth-quarter 2012 net income of $5.8 billion compared with $5.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 6 percent.Big...

Amazon’s In-App Purchasing Available to PC, Mac, Web-Based Customers

Amazon is making it easier for software developers to sell extra features and services to consumers through their software apps by tying the transactions...

Google Surpasses $50 Billion Fiscal Year Revenue Level

It was surely a matter of time, but Google reported Jan. 22 that it has surpassed the $50 billion-per-year mark in its 17th year...

Microsoft’s Surface Pro Windows 8 Tablet Goes on Sale Feb. 9

Surface Pro, Microsoft's Intel Core i5-powered slate that runs Windows 8 Pro, will go on sale on Saturday, Feb. 9, in the United States...

AMD Hires Away Chip Engineers from Apple, Qualcomm

Advanced Micro Devices, looking to expand into growth areas and reduce its reliance on the PC market, reportedly has hired two former AMD chip...

AT&T to Buy Alltel Brand from ATNI for $780 Million

AT&T has been in search of wireless assets to acquire since federal regulators denied its 2011 bid to purchase T-Mobile. On Jan. 22 it...