Dell has thrown in the towel, after HP upped its bid for utility storage provider 3PAR with all-cash bid of $33 (£21.44) per share

With VMware’s new product, IT staff can let users pick virtual services from a catalogue - and eWEEK is impressed

More and more adults are texting or ‘SMS’ing’ on their mobile phones according to a study that documents our changing mobile habits

Small businesses are increasingly making use of web conferencing solutions as an affordable alternative to travel

Fibrecity could offer all Dundee residents fibre broadband, using the sewer system

A new FOI request has revealed the loss of more than 50 devices by the Welsh Assembly Government over the past two years

The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) wants to run a Governance Board to develop a code of conduct for services

The government was wrong to delay universal broadband till 2015, said the former Digital Britain minister Stephen Carter

The Wireless Power Consortium has announced certified iPhone and BlackBerry chargers using the ‘Qi’ wireless power spec

Memristors could replace traditional memory technologies such as Flash and hard drives, as well as CPUs

NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup combines backup management, snapshot, clone, replication and disk storage features

Greenpeace’s campaign unfairly targets Facebook’s very efficient data centre. But, Peter Judge asks, is changing behaviour about fairness?

Microsoft’s upcoming smartphone operating system is headed for devices in time for the Christmas shopping season

Apple has debuted new iPods, a revamped Apple TV and a music-centric social service

Archos is to launch five Android-based tablets, with prices starting at £64, to challenge Apple in a growing market

IBM has confirmed that it will ship its new z196 processor, touted as the world’s fastest chip, next week

HP is to cough up $55 million (£36 million) in order to settle claims that it participated in a kickback scheme to win federal contracts

Google’s Chrome web browser has ralied from a market share decline in July to a new high according to the latest stats

Scientists in California plan to prove whether data centres can save power by cutting out the AC power

Google’s new Gmail Priority Inbox feature is ideal for Google Apps users, but is not so well suited to casual consumers, says Clint Boulton

Greenpeace may not “Like” it, but the Oregon data centre is more efficient where it is, says Facebook

Fresh from reaching a compromise deal with BlackBerry maker RIM, India has set its sights on Skype and Google

The advertising regulator’s powers will be extended to cover social media marketing from 1 March

Ofgem’s prospectus on smart metering is not all it’s cracked up to be, according to analyst firm Ovum

Sustainability will be ‘critical’ to businesses, bringing cash savings as well as carbon cuts, according to Capgemini

Greenpeace’s director, and 500,000 Facebook users, ask the company to use clean energy

Apple’s integrated combination of hardware and software is compelling, but can’t hold a candle to RIM’s business features, as seen in the BlackBerry Torch 9800

Trend Micro has launched encryption management for the cloud and anti-malware for virtual machines

Running on VMware’s bread-and-butter vSphere platform, the new management controls include management, security, data centre services and consulting

Project Horizon products showcase new, user-centric application and data delivery architecture

vFoglight Storage enables enterprises to manage virtual and physical storage deployments on a single screen

Scientists have revealed a way to use bright illumination to remotely control two quantum cryptogrphy systems

The company has released a ‘Fix-it’ tool to address DLL loading problems believed to be affecting many major applications

The acquisitions are intended to support VMware’s emerging ‘IT as a Service’ strategy

Orange has officially launched its high definition (HD) voice service that promises superior voice calls on the mobile phone

Apple has apparently ironed out the production kinks with its iPad which now ships to customers in just 24 hours

Good news for open source supporters after Samsung revealed that it has sold 1 million Android powered Galaxy S smartphones in the US

AMD is quietly phasing out the ATI branding for its graphics products according to reports and will instead place them under the AMD brand

A badly configured network is most often the cause of security breaches, a survey of hacking habits has revealed

BT has notched up its 15 millionth broadband customer, but problems with nation-wide rollout and below-par speeds are still causing headaches

Intel is making a push into the Internet-connected mobile device space with its purchase of Infineon’s wireless chip business

As Dell and HP keep stacking the cash higher in the bidding war for 3PAR, the question arises: what makes this small storage company worth it?

The company is planning an online tool to help companies quantify energy savings from its new Windows 7 operating system

Mass migration to Windows 7 must happen soon while tablets are undermining the netbook market, says Gartner

Countries from India to the UAE don’t like secrets, especially when they’re held by their own citizens, but banning BlackBerry is shortsighted and futile, says Wayne Rash

Rich Internet Applications could be the next corporate development frontier, but developers must consider the security implications, says Larry Seltzer

Microsoft’s investigation into conditions at the KYE factory in China turned up violations that the company says it addressed

RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance is aimed at managing security, risk and regulatory compliance of cloud infrastructures — multitenant or otherwise

Cisco reportedly is considering buying Skype before the VOIP and video conferencing vendor enters into its planned IPO later this year

Google has launched Gmail Priority Inbox to help users designate some messages as more important than others

Microsoft is asking the U.S. Supreme Court is examine and overturn a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against it by Canadian firm i4i

The networking specialist is providing remote healthcare services to Indian villages hit by flooding

The Information Commissioner’s Office has criticised Yorkshire Building Society for allowing an unencrypted laptop to be stolen along with its passwords

Google said on 27 Aug. that the Department of Justice filed a second request for information about the search engine’s $700 million (£451m) bid to buy ITA Software

Apple’s preparations for its 1 September event have kicked into high gear, with signs that the announcement will focus on music

Google’s acquired Angstro, building on the search engine’s Zynga investment and acquisitions of Slide and Jambool

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed patent-infringement suits against Apple, Google and nine other companies

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7’s marketing push could total $400 million (£257m), on top of development costs for the smartphone platform, says an analyst

PC World and Currys are offering cash for old working laptops, desktops, and Macs as part of a six day trade-in scheme

3PAR received an offer from Dell matching HP’s $1.8 billion bid and accepts it, apparently ending the high-stakes bidding war - but HP isn’t done

RIM has offered to establish an ‘industry forum’ to help the Indian government manage lawful intercepts, but denied it has made any special deals

The developers of ‘privacy-conscious’ Facebook rival Diaspora claim the social network will be open-sourced on 15 September

Google is following up on its real-time search efforts by giving Google Realtime Search its own address

Intel is reportedly close to a deal to buy Infineon’s mobile chip business, according to industry rumours

Google is staying quiet about its expansion plans for its Gmail VoIP service, despite clocking up more than 1 million calls in 24 hours

Gmail now has a VoIP phone-calling option that could pose a serious challenge to Skype’s Internet phone service

A Panda Security report has found that a third of malware infections worldwide are caused by worms that spread on USB devices

IBM’s X-Force threat report has labelled Adobe, Apple and Microsoft as the makers of products with the most vulnerabilities

HP’s move to up the ante in its attempt to acquire 3PAR comes only 5 hours after Dell bid $1.6 billion, topping HP’s previous bid

Microsoft has released the first service pack for its Exchange Server 2010 that promises a range of extensive additions

As part of its belief that online video will dominate Internet traffic, Cisco has acquired ExtendMedia to help it manage online video content

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled that PC World’s owner, DSG Retail Ltd, has breached the Data Protection Act

One PC can serve applications to many users, in a radical thin client system which could help small businesses and the third world, says NComputing’s Paul Gullett