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Consumers will be spending more on appliances this holiday season, according to an analytics-based forecast made by technology giant IBM earlier this year.

Barclays Capital upgraded rating of the data storage equipment maker NetApp, Inc. (NTAP) to 'overweight' from 'equal weight' and increased its price target to $67 from $56.

Patent collecting company Intellectual Ventures, which was started by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has filed patent lawsuits against nine companies.

Chronology: Key events that have punctuated Oracle's handling of Java this year.

Microsoft is upping its ante to corner a share from IBM's mainframe business as it invests an undisclosed amount in French software maker TurboHercules which has hogged limelight for filing an antitrust complaint with EU against IBM.

IBM unveiled a technology that uses pulses of light instead of electrical signals to transfer data between chips, advancing its plans to create a supercomputer capable of one million trillion calculations per second.

A U.S. district court jury has returned a verdict that business software maker SAP AG has stolen software from rival Oracle Corp. and must pay the latter $1.3 billion in damages.

Researchers from NC State and IBM have discovered a way to patch a cloud-based computing system while it's offline.

Cyber Monday sales were up, with mobile shoppers making a significant showing for the first time.

Online retail sales soared 19.4 percent through the afternoon of Cyber Monday from the prior year, according to data from Coremetrics, a division of IBM (NYSE: IBM).

Stocks fell, but finished significantly above intra-day lows, as the market recovered somewhat from early losses triggered by renewed fears that the euro zone debt crisis could spread beyond Ireland to Portugal and Spain.

US stocks declined in early trade on Monday as the European Union’s 85 billion euro ($113 billion) financial assistance package for Ireland failed to boost investor sentiment.

Futures on major U.S. indices point to flat opening on Monday as the European Union’s 85 billion euro ($113 billion) financial assistance package for Ireland failed to boost investor sentiment.

The U.S. online retail sector delivered double digit growth on Black Friday 2010 compared with the year-ago levels, according to a report from IBM. The findings showed that online sales rose 15.9 percent, with consumers pushing the average order value up 12.1 percent to $190.80.

Netflix has moved its video-on-demand streaming service to the cloud, taking its datacenter to Amazon Web Services EC2 (AWC), citing the need for agility and the high cost of running Oracle on IBM as its primary motive.

Novell's Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon said on Wednesday that UNIX copyrights are in Novell's hands, quieting fears that Microsoft had clinched its UNIX copyrights.

Attachmate Corp, an investment group owned by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo, said it will buy networking solutions company Novell, Inc. for about $2.2 billion.

The company's next generation Blue Gene supercomputer was the most energy-efficient as rated by Green500.org

China has trumped US to gain the top spot for the fastest supercomputer but IBM's Blue Gene, Blue Gene/Q, has been crowned the most energy-efficient of all supercomputers.

The US guest workers programs design needs an immediate and substantial in the wake of high unemployment in the nation.

IBM unveiled its new storage architecture that doubles the analytics processing speed specifically suited for cloud computing and data intensive workloads.

iPhone, just three years old and already attained cult status, has catapulted Apple (AAPL) to one of the largest technology companies in the world.

The stage is set for another wave of mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. technology sector as the big players, who are flush with cash and looking to expand their horizon, are acquiring aggressively in quest for new products and technology.

Standpoint Research has initiated coverage on Cisco Systems with a 'buy' rating and a price target of $24 and analyst Ronnie Moas said the market has overreacted to the company's weak outlook.

IBM will be leading a joint research initiative of 15 European partners to develop smart cloud storage architecture, which is likely to improve the global delivery of rich data and storage services across boundaries of countries and vendors.

While Oracle and HP's altercation over CEOs continued, nearly 400 of their clients switched to IBM servers and storage systems.

After being dethroned by China as the world's fastest supercomputer maker, US has upped the ante and is creating two 20-petaflop supercomputers to reclaim the top position for the most powerful supercomputer.

Oracle and Apple have announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X, a move that will make Apple's Java technology available to open source developers.

Company will look to help cities become smarter through technological innovation.