Yahoo and Microsoft have announced plans to make their instant-messaging services interoperable in what analysts called a shot to market leader America Online's AOL Instant Messenger and a defensive jab to newcomer Google.
Sun Microsystems, looking to add market heft, is acquiring storage specialist StorageTek in a deal worth US$4.1 billion, the companies said Thursday in the US.
Intel's board, in widely expected move, voted on Thursday to elevate Paul Otellini from president to chief executive officer in May.
The bizarre chain of events that unfolded around the alleged theft notebook computers valued at AU$1 million last March continued today, with Microsoft revealing it is seeking damages for software piracy against a system assembler embroiled in the matter.
Microsoft is shaking up its plans for the next version of Windows to get the software off the drawing board and into PCs by the end of 2006.
Is PeopleSoft's founder and long-time chief executive back at the helm to accept Oracle's takeover bid, or to dig in for a long-term battle?
Microsoft will work with law enforcement to track down writers of worms, viruses and other malicious code, and is ponying up US$5 million to fund the search.
Oracle on Friday announced a surprise US$5.1 billion takeover bid for enterprise software maker PeopleSoft, only a few days after PeopleSoft said it was acquiring rival J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion.
The PeopleSoft-J.D. Edwards merger will enhance the combined entity's standing in the enterprise software space in Australia and pose a serious threat to SAP.
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