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Ariba said Thursday it is acquiring fellow e-commerce vendor Quadrem for roughly US$150 million, in a deal the company says will create the world's largest business-to-business commerce network. The transaction is expected to close by March 31, 2011. Quadrem's sourcing network contains about 70,000 suppliers in 65 countries, according to a statement. Buyer customers include Nestle, BHP Hilton and Alcoa. It also sells a supplier identification and verific ...

Long noted for its speed compared with other consumer video-editing software, CyberLink PowerDirector came out with a new version today with support for 64-bit CPUs, the first of any consumer-level video editing software with that capability. The Ultra64 edition of the new PowerDirector 9 also lets users burn Blu-ray disc authoring and sells for $99.95. A version without those capabilities, called Deluxe, costs $69.95. Both editions allow powerful video editing ...

Arm Holdings is in talks for its chip technology to be used with Google TV, the software aimed at putting the Internet on television sets everywhere. "We are talking to Google, but we have nothing to announce right now," said Tudor Brown, president of Arm, at a technology conference in Taipei on Thursday. When Google TV software was announced in May, Google said it was made for use on Intel's Atom processor CE4100, an x86 architec ...

Microsoft is now offering free Symantec security software to small businesses for a limited time, through retailer PC Mall, following some grumbling in response to the free distribution of its own security software. In October, Microsoft began offering small businesses free copies of Microsoft Security Essentials for as many as 10 PCs. It has also started letting customers download the software from Windows Update. Panda Security and Trend Mic ...

Microsoft on Wednesday released Lync, the "next generation" of unified communications for businesses. The platform integrates instant messaging, presence, audio, video, web conferencing, and voice along with Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Exchange. Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of the company's Lync and speech group, said Lync will help IT departments "enhance or eliminate their traditional PBX systems" by unifying all ...

Microsoft came to PCMag.com's offices to demo Microsoft Office 365 in advance of a beta rollout that will widen beyond Microsoft's partners on November 19. In addition to showing off what looked to be a robust beta of Microsoft's answer to Google Docs, complete with working capabilities that included collaborative document editing, mobile document editing, presence-detection features, and live video meetings, the Microsoft demo team left us with a few pricing example ...

Microsoft has launched an app for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 users that enhances the default Internet Explorer browser with tabbed browsing, an incognito mode, and more. Despite being hailed by some reports as an alternative browser, Browser Plus (Browser+) is essentially a $0.99 skin created by the Windows Azure team. It adds a back and forth button, a Google default search box ,and tabbed browsing on the same screen (previously it toggled thumbna ...

NEW YORK (AFP) – US online travel site Kayak said Wednesday it seeks to raise 50 million dollars with an initial public offering and expressed concern about Google's plan to buy flight information company ITA Software. Kayak, in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, said it had not yet set a share price for the IPO, designed to raise funds for "working capital and other general corporate purposes." In its S ...

McAfee today revealed its McAfee Threat Report for the third quarter of 2010. Information like that provided by McAfee in these quarterly reports is valuable for IT admins--enabling them to keep a finger on the pulse of malware, and to stay in touch with emerging attack techniques and trends. With the holiday shopping season upon us, cyber criminals will be pulling out all the stops and shifting into high gear to capitalize on the spike in online transaction ...

NEW YORK – U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories slipped 4 percent in October as demand for most gaming consoles declined from a year earlier, according to data from market researcher NPD Group. Overall game sales were $1.07 billion last month, down from $1.11 billion in October of last year, NPD said on Tuesday. Year-to-date sales were down 8 percent at the end of October, at $11.07 billion. "Keep in mind that t ...