Marking Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, it finally closed the all-cash deal to purchase internet communications company Skype Global Inc. SA for a whopping $8.5 billion. It is the latest addition to Microsoft’s division and will be running under Microsoft CEO Tony Bates. Skype offers free online messaging, voice and video calls, as well as ...

The success of Android is remarkable. In retrospect, people barely knew Android two and half years ago, with only one device, in one country, on one carrier. Today, it boasts 100 million activated Android devices; 400,000 new Android devices activated every day; 200,000 free and paid applications available in Android Market; and 4.5 billion applications ...

Along with the promotion of Stefan Dyckerhoff contained in a Juniper internal memo by CEO Kevin Johnson, David Yen was reported to be departing the company effective immediately. According to sources, he will transfer to Cisco to run its servers business. The networking giant has not commented on the issue just yet.

Knowing Google, the supposedly annual developer conference they dubbed as Google I/O is certainly to go beyond its label. It’s gonna commence in a couple of hours in San Francisco so check out their official site to know their itinerary.

The curtain is raised and the spotlight is focused on the eight games to be showcased for the Swedish-based games festival, Nordic Games Indie Night. The feature and showdown will be on May 10, which is trailed by an awards night the following day. It is run by The Copenhages Games Collective. Below are the ...

Dell's doing a great deal to move into the cloud services industry, and it latest development is the launch of a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores, tagging high hopes of faster virtualization. The PowerEdge M915 blade will run on Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron 6100 processors which as up to 12 cored, ...

Tech companies have a bazillion reasons to go green: insanely high energy outlays, stern environment regulations, the demand for bigger data centers to respond to growing business demands, Greenpeace chasing “un-eco-friendly” companies like crazy etc. In fact, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency predicts data center energy usage will double in the next five years which ...

Being handiest of all devices in the market today, investors are making a lot of smartphone-centric investments in order to position themselves in this booming trend. People could leave behind their laptop and netbooks, but never their mobile devices. It has become a more popular way of accessing the internet since you can pretty much ...

Cloud storage provider Nirvanix today announced that its Nirvanix Cloud Technology will become the storage tier for the latest edition of Symantec Enterprise Vault, the Enterprise Vault 10. With this new storage, social media (aka Facebook, Twitter, blogs, email and instant message) archiving will be automated for the purpose of compliance, eDiscovery and corporate governance ...

One of the most trafficked social news sites in the world with more than 460,000 contributors and about 10 million unique visitors per months, Allvoices is acquired by Datran Media, a leading digital marketing technology. This will provide Datran media a base of talented contributors while giving Allvoices a crowd-sourcing platform that will go beyond ...