Cheaper data analysis could alter the way businesses run, says Ingres' Ketan Karia

Ten year deal to unseat the king of search, follows Microsoft's failed bid to buy Yahoo

Vectorising the database unlocks ten-fold improvement for the open source database vendor Ingres

Governments can't ignore Twitter, because it's a channel on which people might just listen. But, says Don Reisinger, they have to do it right

Germany becomes most spammed country thanks in part to translation software, says MessageLabs

The IBM system will help track suspicious and unidentified aircraft in UK airspace however some critics have raised concerns about funding for UK defence technology research

Buying its data mining partner, IBM issues a challenge to its rivals Oracle, SAP and SAS to up their game

Ecology activists claim that IT giant Hewlett-Packard is doing an about-face on its public statements about eliminating key toxic chemicals in its printers, computers, servers and storage products by the end of 2009

Apple manufacturer Foxconn, which produces the company's iPods and iPhones, plans to compensate the family of engineer Sun Danyong, who fell to his death on 16 July after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype in his possession disappeared

Apple shuts the door on all Google Voice applications, including third-party applications that support search engine giant Google's VOIP and telephony product, which is rolling out to more users