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In this screen shot provided by Google Inc., the company's new "Google Buzz" feature for Gmail mobile users is shown.

SAP chairman Hasso Plattner started with contrition and signaled that product development will lead the rebound in the company.

Cognizant Technology posted surprisingly large numbers for profit and revenue Tuesday and topped the fourth-quarter report with a 2010 outlook that exceeded most expectations as technology spending rebounds.

CoWare , Inc., a leading supplier of Electronic System Design software and services, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Synopsys, Inc.

Sony Online Entertainment LLC today announced that more than eight million unique users have registered to play Free Realmsa , the free-to-play, family-friendly hit online video game.

Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. said Monday it narrowed its loss in the fiscal first quarter as revenue in the company's two largest divisions, health care and dictation, and mobile and enterprise, increased.

Electronic Arts Inc. narrowed its net loss in the last quarter but video game sales declined, and a disappointing outlook for the company sent its shares down sharply Monday.

International Business Machines Corp. , the largest computer-services provider, is introducing new server systems today, aiming to bolster its leading position as software rival Oracle Corp.

Electronic Arts Inc. reportedly plans to bring its signature Madden NFL game to Facebook Inc.

THQ has announced that it is hard at work on an MMO set in the Warhammer 40K universe.

Germany's Software AG said Thursday that its net income rose 37 percent in the fourth quarter on improving sales and contributions from recently acquired software maker IDS Scheer.

By John Markoff New York Times News Service The National Science Foundation and Microsoft Corp.

Today Informatica Corporation , the world's number one independent provider of enterprise data integration software, announced the continued expansion of its strategic OEM business, with 24 new OEM partners added in 2009, and a continued increase in the types of end solutions and services that now incorporate the Informatica Platform Informatica ...

Shares of THQ Inc. jumped Thursday after the video game publisher predicted it would break even in its fiscal fourth quarter, better than the loss analysts expect.

Google's plan to put millions of books online has been praised for expanding access to books but has also been vociferously criticized on antitrust and copyright grounds.

Digital River, Inc. , a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that the company is presenting at the Thomas Weisel 2010 Technology & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, Calif.

"Microsofta TMs Creative Destruction"? former VP Article of The New York Times , February 4, 2010 Dick Brass was a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004.

Infosys Technologies and San Francisco-based Elan Pharmaceuticals Thursday formally announced a partnership agreement under which the Indian software giant will design and implement a new research informatics system for the latter.

Microsoft Corp. may be close to adding a new way for big businesses to buy Microsoft Office.

Double-Take Software was downgraded by an Oppenheimer analyst who wrote Thursday that recent signs of stabilization in the market the company serves have been misleading.