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The U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) has tapped IT researcher Gartner Inc. to provide market intelligence services as the health organization forges ahead with a mammoth,

Demand for memory and wireless communications chips drove a 40 per cent increase in global semiconductor sales in June, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Monday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is extending support for its Java Enterprise System (JES) to third-party operating systems and hardware platforms in a move aimed at gaining more uptake for the server software and throwing more weight behind its pricing model, the company said Tuesday.

IBM Corp. has inked a deal with France T

Open standards and interoperability consortium The Open Group is calling on software developers and the IT industry at large to declare their independence from proprietary technology, in what the group is touting as a virtual call to arms against closed standards.

Skype Technologies SA, which offers software that allows users to make free phone calls over the Internet, said Friday that it is closer to launching a new prepay service in which users can make cheap calls to any phone around the world from their PCs.

Apparently Ralph Blasek didn't do a good job at plotting his next few moves. The professional chess player, and presumed leader of Europe's largest known software counterfeiting network, was sentenced Thursday by a German judge with five and half years in prison without probation.

Nortel Networks Corp. predicted Tuesday that a restatement of its 2003 financial results would substantially wipe out all of its net earnings for the year, with one-third of the reductions impacting the second half of the year.