Hewlett-Packard has confirmed it is in talks to acquire IT services company Electronic Data Systems in a deal that would give it more competitive muscle against worldwide services market leader IBM.

An online bird observatory went live today that will help researchers better understand climate change.

Scammers want your IRS refund checks and have devised at least one phishing scheme to get it, according to the FBI.

Google plans to release on Monday a preview version of Friend Connect, a service designed to let Web publishers add social networking features to their sites, the company said.

When the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill implemented network access control campus-wide last spring, it was as much a natural progression of the school's network management strategy as it was a security project.

Research in Motion today unveiled the BlackBerry Bold, also known as BlackBerry 9000, a tri-band HSDPA 3G smartphone with integrated Wi-Fi and GPS and a 624-MHz CPU with 128Mbytes flash memory and 1GB of onboard storage memory.

Sprint Nextel today reported losing nearly 1.1 million wireless customers in the first quarter of 2008, marking the sixth time in the last seven quarters that the company has lost postpaid wireless customers.

VMware is releasing two new bundles of management and automation products designed for disaster recovery, the management of virtual machines and the delivery of applications to users.

Enterprise BlackBerry devotees gather this week in Orlando for RIM's annual user conference. On their "must see" list: the still missing-in-action BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0, the about-to-be-unveiled 3G BlackBerry 9000 and a possible flip phone model.

James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, has experienced "The Great Firewall of China" firsthand, an experience people from around the world will share this summer when the Olympics comes to that country. Fallows talks about Internet censorship in China in this Q&A.

Hewlett-Packard is close to acquiring IT services company Electronic Data Systems for around $13 billion, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal published on Monday.

Following some rough times with legal battles and steep financial losses in 2007, Vonage may be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. Last week, the company reported record revenue growth for Q1 2008, driven by an increase in subscriber lines and higher average revenue per user, and it narrowed its losses to $9 million for the quarter. Vonage also announced a partnership with Covad to offer a new Vonage Broadband service by year-end.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking the issue of counterfeit Cisco equipment very seriously, according to a leaked FBI presentation that underscores problems in the Cisco supply chain.

Microsoft's strategy for building a management platform has changed significantly in the past five years.

Microsoft is appealing the $1.3 billion (€899 million) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday.

Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products.

The public will get its first chance Monday to test a search engine from start-up Powerset that eschews conventional keyword technology and instead is designed to understand the meaning of Web pages.

The proposed IEEE WLAN mesh standard is already getting a workout in the field, from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation and a new open source consortium.

Executive compensation has been a hot-button issue for several years, and the final crop of fiscal year 2007 proxy statements filed throughout March and April did little to quell the cry for reform from industry watchdogs, activist shareholders and the general public.