Google: Sun offered to license Java for $100 million

Judge Alsup, in a feisty mood, picked holes in both Oracle’s and Google’s arguments

Can we believe LulzSec announcement that they have disbanded?

NimbusDB, Xeround, ParAccel and Cloudant all aim to provide greater scale and elasticity

Dell has partnered with Netuitive to build out its VIS infrastructure management tools

HP’s lawsuit alleged that Oracle is using ‘coercive’ tactics to switch HP customers to its own hardware

The company told one newspaper that an “extremely small” number of units were affected

But not all the new capabilities in Windows 8 will be available on existing hardware

With Windows 8, Microsoft seeks more involvement with how PC makers design their hardware

MSI’s new Android tablets were being quietly shown away from the main show floor

Ultrabooks will evolve over a few years into a new class of thin and light laptops

CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said Nvidia’s Kal-El processor will be the first quad-core chip for tablets

The Uptime Institute says large companies are putting workloads in third-party data centres

CEO Paul Otellini says the changes will be as significant as Intel’s launch of the first Pentium chip

The company said it now understands what goes on inside the minuscule circuitry elements

But Skype will be tightly integrated with Office, XBox and Windows Phone after Microsoft buys the VoIP call provider