James Niccolai

SAP AG will offer a complete set of hosted and on-demand applications for midmarket customers who want to get applications up and running quickly with very little customization.

The new version of Mono released late last year adds support for Windows Forms, the graphical user interface APIs in .Net. That will make it easier for developers to port client applications written in .Net to Linux and other OSes

Alcatel-Lucent SA has closed its acquisition of Nortel Networks Corp.'s UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) mobile infrastructure business, the companies announced Tuesday.

Banking and insurance conglomerate ING Group NV has finalized contracts worth CAD$1,150 million (US$994 million) with a consortium of companies to provide workspace services for its 53,000 employees in Europe.

Microsoft released the commercial version of its software for robots. Its Robotics Studio includes programming tools intended to make it easier to write robot applications, and a runtime environment that allows them to be used and reused on different types of hardware. The software is free for hobbyists and academic use.

Users are being advised to disable a certain type of file in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player software following the discovery of a new security hole in the software.

Qualcomm Inc. is making two acquisitions of Bluetooth and WLAN (wireless LAN) chip technologies, allowing it to further the integration of wireless networking capabilities in mobile phones.

With a promise to create new types of online banking services, financial software vendor Intuit Inc. has agreed to buy financial services provider Digital Insight Corp. for CAD$1.5 billion in cash.