Intel: FTC antitrust lawsuit is 'misguided'
News The chipmaker has responded to a suit filed by the FTC, which alleges that Intel carried out 'unfair' competitive practices in the GPU market [17 Dec 2009]
Gov't told: Cut IT projects and save public cash
News A report by the Institute of Directors and the TaxPayers' Alliance says cutting government IT projects could save millions from public spending [15 Sep 2009]
SAP price hikes delayed
News The UK SAP users group predicts rises will not arrive until Q2 next year, after SAP announced its value benchmarking timescale had slipped [02 Dec 2009]
Pirate Bay's potential buyer has assets seized
News A Swedish court has sided with a former business partner of Hans Pandeya, CEO of Global Gaming, ruling there is enough evidence to show he owes Johan Sellstrom about $400,000 [28 Sep 2009]
Best Buy, Samsung, others named in GPL lawsuit
News Fourteen consumer electronics companies have been named in a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by the Software Freedom Law Center [15 Dec 2009]
Intuit shuts Quicken Online, turns focus to Mint.com
News The maker of Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax will shut down its free Quicken Online personal finance site in six to nine months and concentrate on newly bought Mint.com [06 Nov 2009]
Fujitsu workers to strike in December
News Unite has set dates for strikes by up to 1,500 Fujitsu Services staff in December and January, after talks to avoid industrial action failed [14 Dec 2009]
HP contractors at DWP vote on strike action
News HP contractors have become increasingly angry at the government department after the announcement of further job cuts and pay freezes [19 Nov 2009]
London Borough of Southwark sues IBM
News The local authority has issued a writ against IBM over the performance of a master data management system it claims is not fit for purpose [03 Nov 2009]
Ten failures that went down in IT history
Comment Good ideas gone wrong or misguided from the outset? All that matters is that they ended in disaster, says Jack Wallen [20 Nov 2009]
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Government five-year IT plan points to cloud, Web 2.0
News A draft strategy paper outlining the government's IT approach up to 2015 lists Web 2.0, cloud computing and service-oriented architecture as areas of particular interest [01 Dec 2009]
Microsoft announces 800 more layoffs
News The latest workers to have their jobs eliminated are being notified on Wednesday, in what Microsoft said completes personnel reductions announced earlier this year [05 Nov 2009]
EC reshuffle bumps Kroes out of antitrust seat
News Antitrust regulator Neelie Kroes is moving to take charge of the European digital agenda, while telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding heads for a justice office [27 Nov 2009]
Public Accounts Committee attacks C-Nomis project
News The committee has criticised the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System, describing the project as a 'shambles' [03 Nov 2009]
Unite to hold strike ballot at HP
News Staff at Hewlett-Packard IT services will vote on whether to take industrial action over the planned transfer and benefit cuts of 150 of its workers [29 Oct 2009]
EC voices formal objections to Oracle-Sun deal
News European regulators have formally objected to Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun, while Oracle intends to fight its corner [10 Nov 2009]
Tech insider-trading scheme sees six charged
News Employees of Intel, IBM and McKinsey have been charged by US federal prosecutors with providing insider information to hedge-fund managers [19 Oct 2009]
Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring
News The search giant beat analyst expectations for the third quarter, and is 'confident about investing heavily in our future' [16 Oct 2009]
Ten ways of coping with office tedium
Comment Your desk-bound job need not lead inexorably to madness — just make sure you have ways of coping, says Jack Wallen [16 Oct 2009]
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Oracle not yielding to EU with Sun buy, says report
News Oracle is reportedly offering no concessions to European regulators concerned about its acquisition of Sun [04 Nov 2009]
Intel and AMD settle, agree cross-licensing deal
News Intel will pay AMD $1.25bn and the two companies will share patent rights for the next five years, while AMD has cancelled all antitrust litigation against Intel [12 Nov 2009]
