Joris Evers

Paul Twomey will later this month replace Stuart Lynn as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization said Wednesday.

Shipments of Tablet PCs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) were off to a slow start in the final months of last year, principally because of high prices and lack of language support, research company IDC said Monday.

HANOVER, GERMANY - PeopleSoft Inc. announced Enterprise Portal 8.8, an update to its portal product integrating enterprise instant messaging from IBM Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. and adding multiple site-management features, PeopleSoft said Friday.

Baan Co. NV will push its business intelligence products to customers worldwide under a new initiative called "Measure Up" that the software maker plans to announce Wednesday at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany.

Forrester Research Inc. Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) George Colony on his first visit to Hanover, Germany, stepped on familiar territory, proclaiming Web services will be the next big thing in IT.

EMC Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. have settled their patent disputes and struck agreements to share storage technology, the storage vendors said Tuesday.

China has signed up for Microsoft Corp.'s new Government Security Program (GSP), giving the Chinese government access to the source code of Microsoft's Windows operating system software, Microsoft said Friday.

Palm Inc. laid off about 50 people at its hardware unit on Thursday in response to declining demand for handheld computers, a company spokesperson said Friday.