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Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 rise 0.4-0.6 percent, pointing to a higher start on Wall Street on Monday.

Oracle and Sun SPARC SOLARIS world record TPC-CpPerformance beats IBM's best results on DB2 with power 595 server, both companies announced during the opening keynote on Monday night at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 in San Francisco.

The stock market is set to continue its winning ways in the coming week as momentum builds during earnings season.

The biggest risk for investors in technology, with stock prices up a whopping 55 percent this year, is they might be just a little too happy.

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The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into allegations that International Business Machines abused its dominance of the mainframe business to squeeze rivals, said Computer and Communications Industry Association chairman Ed Black on Wednesday.

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into allegations that International Business Machines abused its dominance of the mainframe business, said Computer and Communications Industry Association chairman Ed Black.

Salesforce.com Chief Executive Marc Benioff will make a high-profile speech at a conference held by arch rival Oracle Corp, giving him a rare chance to hawk his goods in hostile territory.

Cisco Systems Inc's overture for Norway's Tandberg puts U.S.-based Polycom Inc in play as it is the only public company now left in the video conferencing market.

Brocade Communications Systems Inc has put itself on the block and Hewlett-Packard Co is one of the companies that could be interested in buying the network equipment maker, people familiar with the matter said.

U.S. network equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc has put itself up for sale and Hewlett-Packard Co is among the possible bidders, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, triggering a 17 percent jump in Brocade shares.

IBM is introducing an inexpensive Web-based corporate email service that will compete with Google Inc's Google Apps, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages.

Cisco has agreed to buy Norwegian videoconferencing company Tandberg for $3 billion, the latest in a series of bets taken on using video to drive demand for its core data transmission gear.

U.S. network equipment maker Cisco System is to buy Norway's video-conferencing equipment maker Tandberg ASA for an agreed 17.2 billion crowns ($3.0 billion) in cash, the companies said on Thursday, lifting Tandberg shares.

Xerox Corp plans to buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc for $5.5 billion to move into the outsourcing business, but shares of the printing company plunged on concerns that it was gambling on a major shift in strategy.

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IBM was the main supplier in a failed project by British intelligence to upgrade its communications system so various organizations and agents in different locations could share information, a report said on Friday.

Apple may soon see a to their revenue thanks to revisions of reporting rules made Wednesday finalized by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

Supercomputing, once the province of a select few, is fast becoming a key business tool, a trend Dell Inc (DELL.O) hopes to capitalize on.

Dell Inc plans to buy Perot Systems Corp for about $3.9 billion, paying a steep 67.5 percent premium to expand its technology services business and compete with Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM.

A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers plunged the world into financial meltdown and jolted the foundations of capitalism, business students don't just want to learn how to maximize profit for shareholders and themselves.

The board of General Motors Co met in Detroit on Tuesday as the German government stepped up pressure on the automaker to clarify its long-term plans for its European Opel operations.

International Business Machines Corp on Tuesday repeated that it expects to earn at least $9.70 a share this year.

International Business Machines Corp on Tuesday repeated that it expects to earn at least $9.70 a share this year.

European Union antitrust regulators launched an in-depth probe on Thursday into Oracle Corp's $7 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc on concerns the deal could dent competition in the database market.

Global computer server sales in the second quarter continued to plunge to levels not seen in years, research firm IDC said on Tuesday, but signs of stability are appearing in a segment that analysts call a bellwether for the IT industry.

A majority of Google mail users were unable to access the service Tuesday afternoon, in a rare widespread outage of the popular Gmail service.

A majority of Google mail users were unable to access the service on Tuesday afternoon, in a rare widespread outage of the popular Gmail service.

Lenovo, the world's No. 4 PC brand, says it plans to list on the Shanghai stock exchange when rules permit, opening an opportunity for the firm in one of the world's best performing stock markets.