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Apple on Tuesday reported strong earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2010, with strong iPhone, Mac, and iPad sales helping revenue exceed analyst expectations. The company in the quarter released the iPhone 4, which CEO Steve Jobs characterized as the most successful product launch in the company’s history. Apple also launched the iPad during [...]

IBM’s second-quarter profits were up 9 percent from a year earlier, the company announced on Monday, with increased sales in the U.S. and Asia helping to offset weaker spending in Europe. IBM on Monday announced second-quarter revenue of $23.7 billion and earnings of $2.61 per share, an increase of 2 percent and 13 percent, respectively, [...]

Speculation is spreading around the Web that Google is building a site that could be a Facebook-killer. The talk spreading virally online is that Google is developing a social networking service, dubbed Google Me. The rumor started to fly after Digg founder Kevin Rose posted a tweet Saturday, saying, “Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to [...]

IT discovery vendor BDNA on Wednesday unveiled Technopedia, what it calls the world’s first “IT Genome,” a regularly updated encyclopedia of information on every type of enterprise software and hardware platform. The vendor positions itself as an adjunct to CMDB (configuration management database) platforms such as IBM’s Tivoli, which IT shops have long used to [...]

When Australian firm WesTrac needed to expand its data center capacity quickly, the company bought the equivalent of a Band-Aid for its server needs: A containerized data center. The company, which supplies Caterpillar brand heavy-machinery to Australian customers and others, found itself with too little data center to meet the needs of its latest IT [...]