Oracle, RIM renew confidence in tech
Oracle and Research In Motion earnings, Hewlett-Packard's $1.5 billion acquisition of security vendor ArcSight, and good economic news this week helped boost excitement and investor confidence in the tech sector.
Technology companies led U.S. exchanges out of the recession, as strong sales and profit lifted share prices. IT vendors outpaced companies in other sectors in 2009 through April this year. As concerns about a possible double-dip recession rose, however, IT lost ground as other sectors held steady or gained.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab: Good news and bad news
Samsung's Galaxy Tab striptease continued with a media event on Thursday evening, revealing a few more details about the tablet's U.S. launch.
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Report: DOJ nears deal with tech firms on staff poaching
The U.S. Department of Justice is nearing a settlement with technology vendors including Apple, Google, and others over an investigation of their hiring practices, according to a report.
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Researchers issue homemade patch for PDF zero-day bug
A little-known security firm on Wednesday released a home-brewed patch for a critical bug in Adobe Reader that hackers are already exploiting.
RamzAfzar, whose website bills it as a penetration testing company, reworked a flawed Adobe dynamic link library, or DLL, to replace the vulnerable "strcat" API call with the more secure alternative, "strncat."
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Mark Hurd makes first appearance as Oracle exec
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd made his first public comments on Thursday since taking a job as Oracle co-president, saying the company is poised for major expansion.
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VMware considering Novell purchase
VMware is among a number of companies in talks to purchase Novell, according to published reports.
Novell is reportedly looking to split up the company and sell it in separate pieces. It is now in "advanced talks" with at least two buyers, including VMware, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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RIM posts revenue gains on BlackBerry sales
Research In Motion reported revenue gains of 9 percent in its latest financial quarter, driven by Blackberry subscriber gains and record device sales, the company said Thursday.
RIM's revenue was $4.62 billion for its second quarter of 2011, which ended Aug. 28, compared to revenue of $4.24 million for the second quarter of 2010. The company shipped 12.1 million BlackBerry smartphones during the period, a quarterly record for RIM and a 45 percent increase from the year earlier.
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Top 10 hot topics at Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle's annual OpenWorld conference kicks off Sunday and is set to be the biggest one yet, both in attendance and information on future technologies that could have a major influence across the tech world.
Here's a look at some of the hottest topics and happenings at the event, which runs through next Thursday in San Francisco.
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Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 developer tools
Microsoft's release today of the final version of its Windows Phone 7 development tools signals a shift in the campaign to re-launch its mobile business: from an intense behind-the-scenes focus on enlisting developer support to more visible marketing efforts aimed at consumers.
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Microsoft's IE9 off limits to most Windows PCs
Microsoft may have a tough time building significant market share for its new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser because eligible users are in the minority.
Several analysts agreed that Microsoft has its work cut out for it, at least in the short term, because IE9 won't run on Windows XP, the aged-but-still-dominant operating system.
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