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3Par, which is already the subject of a bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell, is now among a group of companies being sued by Crossroads Systems for patent infringement. Crossroads’ products include storage routers and storage bridges, a database security appliance, virtual tape appliances, tape encryption and file migration software. [ Are your storage requirements [...]

The bidding war between Dell and Hewlett-Packard for virtualized storage vendor 3Par continued on Thursday, with Dell increasing its bid to $24.30 per share, or about $1.6 billion. The offer has been accepted by 3Par, according to Dell. It tops a $24 per share offer made by HP earlier this week. [ Are your storage [...]

Apple has released a security update to its Mac OS X operating system, fixing 13 critical security issues in the software. The update, released early Tuesday afternoon fixes bugs in various Mac OS X components, including core components such as Apple Type Services and CFNetwork. It’s Apple’s fifth Mac OS X security update this year. [...]

Seemingly abandoned by its new owner, the open-source version of the Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris, has now lost its governing board as well. On Monday, the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) passed a motion to dissolve itself, OGB chairman John Plocher announced on the OGB mailing list. The control of OGB now returns to Oracle, [...]

IBM made the latest in its long run of acquisitions on Tuesday, announcing the purchase of document capture software vendor Datacap. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Datacap’s technology allows customers to quickly extract information from unstructured formats, such as tax returns, invoices, and claim forms, saving time and money over manual processes, according [...]

Music cloud services seem to be all the rage for iPhones and Android phones these days. However, perhaps due to its reputation as a business device, the BlackBerry has been left out in the cold in most cases. Luckily, if you use this particular mobile OS, Sugarsync doesn’t want your life to be all work [...]

More than half a million Sony laptops sold this year contain a software bug that could lead them to overheat, the company said Wednesday. Sony has recorded 39 cases of overheating among Vaio F and C series laptops that have been on sale since January. [ Want to cash in on your IT experiences? InfoWorld [...]

Apple passed a major milestone today, becoming the world’s largest technology company as measured by the total value of its shares. Near the close of trading on the Nasdaq exchange, Apple’s market capitalization stood at $223 billion, higher than No. 2 Microsoft, which had a market cap of $219.3 billion. [ Get all the details [...]

Google on Friday began giving students priority access to its Google Voice service, which has remained in a closed beta since its transition from GrandCentral in March of last year. Typically, invites for the service can take anywhere from a few hours to several months to arrive after a user signs up. But the company [...]

Ever tried to share a Twitter account with someone else? Probably not, but there are a growing number of businesses that do it on a daily basis. And until Twitter’s own “contributors” service is available to the general public, there’s room for companies that have come up with solutions that don’t require sharing your log-in [...]