HP server revenue falls in turbulent quarter: Gartner
Worldwide server revenue grew 5.2 per cent in the third quarter but declined for Hewlett-Packard (HP), Gartner said in a report on server sales during the quarter that ended September 30.
Worldwide server revenue grew 5.2 per cent in the third quarter but declined for Hewlett-Packard (HP), Gartner said in a report on server sales during the quarter that ended September 30.
Ebay has acquired Hunch, an online platform for customized purchase recommendations, for an undisclosed price, it said Monday.
Despite some lingering user concerns about security and other issues, Hadoop is ready for enterprise use, according to IT executives at the Hadoop World conference in New York earlier this month.
Google, Verizon, Intel, McAfee, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> and Savvis are joining a <a href="https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/initiatives/security-guidance/">voluntary program set up by the Cloud Security Alliance</a> that provides public information about whether contributors comply with CSA-recommended cloud-security practices.
Four U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would allow states to collect taxes on Internet sales, even when the seller does not have a physical presence in the taxing state.
Romanian eBay hacker Vlad Duiculescu, known online as "Vladuz," lost the appeal to get his three-year suspended prison sentence reduced on Tuesday. The court also dismissed the appeal lodged by prosecutors regarding the hacker's acquittal on organized crime charges.
PayPal has opened a global operations center in Malaysia, its second in the region.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has decided to keep its PC division. So says its newly appointed CEO Meg Whitman.
A few years ago, companies regularly <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139020/Study_54_of_companies_ban_Facebook_Twitter_at_work">blocked access to Amazon, Facebook, eBay, World of Warcraft and other sites</a> , which they claimed distracted employees and wasted time. Some people indeed overdid Internet usage or abused social media privileges (remember <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/career-advice-dont-choose-facebook-over-your-job/">Goldman Sachs' Charlie</a> ?), and many organizations severely restricted Web access.
Users are continuing to sell older iPhones in record numbers to get cash for Apple's newest iPhone 4S, a pair of buy-back firms said today.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Spurred by the growth of mobile devices and social media, we're on the cusp of a convergence between online and offline commerce.
This year's Web 2.0 Summit will focus on the critical role that online data plays in the Internet economy and on how its use and misuse can make the difference between success and failure in markets like online gaming, Web advertising, search, social media and mobile.
EBay has launched an application development platform called X.commerce that pulls in tools and functionality from a variety of its sites and products, including the eBay marketplace and PayPal, as well as from partners.
Antitrust regulators in the European Union today approved Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, the online telephone and chat giant.
Although Apple hasn't announced a release date for the iPhone 5, existing iPhone owners are already selling their handsets in anticipation.