When it comes to properly managing and protecting critical enterprise data and information resources, Corporate America is stuck between two strongly opposing forces. The U.S. is world "cyber-crime" headquarters, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center 2007 Internet Crime Report. The term c...
Spurned in an earlier buyout attempt, data storage vendor EMC came back with a $213 million offer that Iomega accepted Tuesday. The all-cash deal -- a 20 percent increase over a March bid of $178 million -- opens the way for EMC to target small businesses and consumers. The buyout is for $3.85 per s...
Only weeks after having won a digital format battle against HD DVD, Sony finds itself entangled in a legal fight over the technology behind Blu-ray. The ITC will hear a case filed by a retired university professor with a 50-year engineering career against Sony, Motorola and more than 25 other compan...
Businesses have data storage issues -- but so do individuals. The former problem is being addressed; the latter is a relatively untapped market. That is likely the thinking behind EMC's acquisition of Pi. EMC, a Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage vendor, is acquiring privately held Pi, a Seattle-based s...
Dell has added another member to its growing family of acquisitions, although this latest addition already had the Dell pedigree, in a sense. The computer maker agreed to buy e-mail services provider MessageOne for about $155 million in cash. The addition of MessageOne is largely an all-in-the-famil...
"Get it in writing" is a quaint concept in the electronic information age -- especially in B2B e-commerce, where a more suitable direction may be: "get in it cXML." Every industry has major players moving back-office functions from sourcing and procurement to invoicing and payment to the Web. Suppli...
IBM asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate an alleged patent infringement it says is being committed by Taiwan-based Asus. IBM took out the complaint against both Asus and its North American subsidiary, Asus Computer International, after "repeated attempts to reach a licensing ...
SanDisk filed three patent infringement actions against 25 companies that manufacture, sell and import USB flash drives, CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, MP3/media players and other removable flash storage products, the company announced Wednesday. The actions -- two filed in the United States ...
Google has formally asked the European Commission to review its acquisition of interactive advertising firm DoubleClick. The next few weeks will be critical, as regulators and lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic contemplate how -- or whether -- the merger should move forward. The EC on Monday i...
Dell on Monday debuted a new data storage device aimed at the fast-growing small and medium-sized business market. The solution, known as the "MD3000i," will be easier to use and less expensive to set up and maintain than solutions from rivals because it is specifically designed for smaller firms, D...
Network Appliance is suing Sun Microsystems, claiming the fellow technology maker is infringing on seven of its patents relating to data storage, claims that Sun said have no merit. Network Appliance said the suit grew out of an internal review of its patent holdings, which began after Sun claimed t...
IBM has landed a $1.4 billion contract to provide outsourced information technology services to pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, a deal that boosts IBM's service arm and enhances its reputation in the key life sciences vertical. The seven-year deal calls for Big Blue to run servers, data storage sy...
Chipmaker Intel has acquired a minor ownership stake in EMC's VMware software unit, a move that comes as the storage company readies its fast-growing server virtualization subsidiary for an initial public offering. Intel Capital, the company's venture investment arm, backed VMware with $218.5 millio...
The lawsuit IBM filed against Amazon for multiple patent violations has ended amicably, with Amazon agreeing to pay undisclosed license fees. The legal battle over the disputed technologies began with much fanfare last fall, when IBM filed a complaint alleging that Amazon had infringed five of its p...
A private equity consortium led by Affiliated Computer Services founder Darwin Deason has boosted its bid to buy the company and take it private, hoping to convince shareholders to sell despite the reluctance of the information technology services firm's board of directors. Deason and Cerberus Capit...
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