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 IT staff to hold three-day strike
News Unite members at the IT services company plan to strike next week over proposed cuts to jobs and pensions [06 Nov 2009]
Cisco results show economy is in recovery
News Chief executive John Chambers says the company's quarterly earnings, which show strong sequential growth, indicate that an economic recovery is fully underway [05 Nov 2009]
Intel accused of bribery in antitrust lawsuit
News New York's attorney general has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit that accuses Intel of paying computer makers rebates to illegally maintain its monopoly power [05 Nov 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]
Connect comms union to merge with Prospect
News Members of UK communications professionals' union Connect, who work for companies such as BT and O2, will form an autonomous group within Prospect [04 Nov 2009]
Microsoft's Mundie: IT needed to solve global woes
News Microsoft chief research officer Craig Mundie argues that computer science is on the brink of breakthroughs that can crack daunting energy and environmental problems [04 Nov 2009]
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]
UN agency plans database of tech devices
News The International Telecommunication Union is launching a programme to give consumers a clearer set of standards on which to judge IT devices [03 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]
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]
Fujitsu IT staff vote in favour of strike
News Staff at the multinational IT services and systems provider have voted in favour of industrial action over proposed cuts to jobs and pensions [02 Nov 2009]
HMRC hopes IT contract will save £110m a year
News HM Revenue & Customs says its newly revised Aspire contract with Capgemini will lead to a reduction in costs without cutting jobs [02 Nov 2009]
Motorola posts third-quarter profit
News Net income was $12m, or a penny per share, compared with a substantial loss for the year-ago period, while revenue was down year over year [30 Oct 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]
SAP revenue slips in third quarter
News The German business maker's share price has dropped, while it warns that software and software-service revenue for the year will be lower than expected [28 Oct 2009]
SAP, Nokia join forces against counterfeiting
News The tech giants are teaming up with a banknote specialist to provide a system that will track a product from factory to shop to guarantee its authenticity [28 Oct 2009]
Cisco to buy UK web-security vendor ScanSafe
News The $183m deal builds on Cisco's acquisition of IronPort, and is aimed at boosting the networking giant's cloud and web security reach [27 Oct 2009]
UK third in OECD European e-government report
News The OECD Government at a Glance 2009 report found Britain has some of the most sophisticated e-government services in Europe but lags behind other countries in take-up [26 Oct 2009]
Carl Icahn steps down from Yahoo board
News In a little over a year on Yahoo's board, Icahn helped hire chief executive Carol Bartz and orchestrate the pending search deal with Microsoft [26 Oct 2009]
Amazon profit jumps 28 percent
News The e-commerce giant reports sales of $5.45bn, much higher than expected by financial analysts, and attributes the boost to sales of its Kindle e-book reader [23 Oct 2009]
Yahoo Q3 profit beats expectations
News Third-quarter revenue was down compared to last year, but not to the extent many had feared, while profits were much higher than forecast [21 Oct 2009]
Sun plans another 3,000 job cuts
News In preparation for its takeover by Oracle, the server maker says it expects to cut about 10 percent of its global workforce during the next 12 months [21 Oct 2009]
Apple: Fourth quarter was 'most profitable ever'
News iPhone and Mac sales helped Apple to a strong fiscal fourth quarter, while some new products are in the pipeline for 2010 [20 Oct 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]
