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Dell submitted a renewed offer that included a sweetened termination bid approaching $100 million, but 3PAR declined to accept it, clearing the way for HP to acquire the storage company for more than $2.3 billion.

Free application for the Apple tablet links tweets with web pages, videos, photos, and related information.

Cloud-based video and music service will challenge Apple's iTunes Store when it launches in Europe this fall.

Active-shutter glasses will be required for 3D viewing on the 16-inch screen laptop that will use similar technology to Sony's Bravia TVs and allow toggling between 2D and 3D.

A novel manufacturing process for shape-memory alloys could bring shape-shifting jewelery and transforming stents.

Resistive Random Access Memory, or ReRAM, is non-volatile memory with lower power consumption and much greater storage capacity than the Flash memory used in mobile phones and MP3 players today.

Citigroup says the z196's record-setting chips help deliver massive performance increase and flexibility that will result in greater innovation and value for customers.

Desktop virtualization is a disruptive force to Windows and traditional forms of desktop applications, says VMware.

The Spring Framework has been expanded into a cloud application development platform capable of producing Java applications optimized to run in VMware virtual machines on a cloud cluster.

The latest version of Google's modeling software offers improved tools to amateur and professional 3D artists alike.

Family Pack discounts to reappear in October as Win7 adoption curve starts to flatline.

A Nexus One owner claims Google made misleading claims about the phone's 3G capabilities and failed to provide adequate support.

OpenPlug's tools allow mobile application developers to write an app once and then run on the Android, iPhone, Linux, Windows Mobile and Symbian mobile operating systems.

Social media version of the popular video game developed by Playfish, which EA acquired in 2009.

Autodesk's 3D engineering design software coming to Apple computers after a 20-year absence, with new mobile apps for iPad, iPhone.

App, previously available only for Apple devices, allows smartphone users to remotely access a virtualized desktop or PC.

NeoSpire's director of security, Sean Bruton, discusses the realities of cloud security and the key questions to ask when assessing a hosted or cloud service provider's claims.

Private clouds inside the enterprise will trade workloads with similar, VMware-based public clouds rendering physical data centers & quot;quite fluid, & quot; according to CEO Paul Maritz.