Oracle defends planned Sun deal at EC hearing

Deal will boost competition, not break it, Oracle will claim

Antitrust issues, bad blood and merger complexity should put kibosh on an acquisition

Plus, unified communications and Apple’s stock results

Thin and light laptops would be selling better if PC makers like Dell and HP wanted them to, Acer exec says

Norton takes on file sharing and e-mail backup

Acer will create phones for top, mid and low-tier price levels aimed at business users and consumers

New division designed to bring its cloud and on-premises software development together and provide a consistent platform for corporate customers

The council will aim to remove barriers for enterprises interested in using cloud computing services

James Galpin is the new manager of McAfee Canadian consumer sales

Budget investments are helping to improve the economy through excellence in science, technology and research

Legislation is meant to deter the most damaging and deceptive forms of spam and other online threats

Bioinformatics lab will support the research and development of new data analysis, data mining, and knowledge discovery techniques

Eight new products, upgrades to aid in ‘intelligent workload management’

Arm wants to make Arteris’ technology interoperable with the AMBA bus protocol

Lala lets users buy streamed songs for a dime, a service iTunes does not have