The terms of the deal represent significantly more money than the £4.5 billion cash offer that IBM reported had put on the table for Sun last month

Google continues to compete vigorously against Yahoo and Microsoft in the search arena while producing new products and investing in initiatives such as Google Ventures

Google "Chief Philanthropic Evangelist" Larry Brilliant is leaving to become president of the climate change fund which produced films such as “An Inconvenient Truth”

Designed to be used by both students and educators, the collaborative-based site will face competition from Google's Knol and Wikipedia in the online-research category

Many users were cut off from the BlackBerry Internet Service, and unable to view e-mail attachments or create new accounts

Google's health care IT solution has been taken to task by physicians who say it can give an inaccurate picture of patients' health conditions

As more and more users venture onto cloud-based applications, temporary outages have more effect on consumers and businesses

Reports claim users will still have the option of downgrading to Windows XP from Windows 7 after the latter is released, even though mainstream support for XP will have ended

Simonyi is perhaps most famous for spearheading the development of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and other productivity applications