Technology - Hardware

Oracle's suit against Google for the use of Java in its Android portable operating system continues to reverberate through the open-source movement. In the newest development, Google has declined to participate in the upcoming JavaOne conference, an event formerly hosted by Java creator Sun Microsystems and now run by Sun's new owner, Oracle. Full Story »

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Research In Motion will give India access to secure BlackBerry data beginning September 1, a government source said on Monday, leading New Delhi to put off a decision on whether to shut down the smartphone. Full Story »

NEW YORK (AFP) - US computer giant IBM said Monday it has completed its acquisition of data storage company Storwize. Full Story »

The managing board of enterprise open-source software company Red Hat has elected a retired U.S. Army officer, General Henry Hugh Shelton, to serve as chairman, the company announced Monday. Shelton takes the place of Matthew Szulik, who was the former CEO of Red Hat. Full Story »

Nokia will set up servers in India by November for its push e-mail service in the country to comply with government regulations, the company said Monday. Full Story »

India’s Ministry of Home Affairs has delayed a ban on BlackBerry services for at least 60 days while the Department of Telecommunications evaluates whether India’s security concerns about the encrypted communications services can be allayed by routing traffic through BlackBerry servers located in India, rather than in overseas data centers. Full Story »

Hewlett-Packard submitted a $2 billion offer for 3PAR on Friday morning, topping Dell's latest $1.8 billion bid for the storage technology provider. Formed in 1999 by a group of server-cluster engineers from Sun Microsystems, 3PAR offers technologies that enable enterprises to service a wide range of applications concurrently from multiple on-premise servers, virtual cloud servers, or hybrid systems that combine on-premise and off-premise elements. Full Story »

While chip manufacturers continue to make their processors ever more powerful, at least one customer has found it useful to slow these chips down, at least long enough to keep them running when the data center air conditioning falters. Full Story »

The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others. Full Story »

The tech giant bought Stratavia, a private database software maker focused on cloud computing. Hewlett-Packard didn't disclose the financial terms. Stratavia helps automate databases so servers are easier to maintain. HP has been a serial acquirer, and currently it's in a bidding war with Dell (NMS:DELL) for the data storage firm 3Par (AMEX:PAR.a - News). Full Story »

The bidding war for enterprise storage vendor 3PAR continued Thursday afternoon, with HP increasing its bid to $1.8 billion, $200 million more than an offer rival Dell had made earlier that day. Full Story »

Security vulnerabilities reached record levels in the first half of 2010, according to a new report from IBM. Released Wednesday, the company's X-Force 2010 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report documented more than 4,396 new vulnerabilities so far this year, an increase of 36 percent over the same period in 2009. Full Story »

BRATISLAVA (AFP) - US computer giant IBM is considering boosting its investment in Slovakia, the economy minister said on Thursday. Full Story »

Advanced Micro Devices is considering the implementation of its upcoming low-power netbook chips based on the new Bobcat architecture in low-end servers, the company said this week. Full Story »

A U.K. reseller of server systems will have a fresh chance to argue its right to sell parallel imports, after the U.K. Court of Appeals ordered a lower court to set aside a summary judgment in favor of Oracle. Full Story »

Just a few days after Hewlett-Packard made a rival $24-per-share bid for enterprise storage maker 3PAR, Dell, the original suitor, upped the ante to $24.30 per share, a bid worth $1.6 billion. 3PAR has accepted, but the approval isn't final. Full Story »

There have been a number of reports in recent days about iTunes customers who have uncovered unauthorized purchases on their accounts. A Wednesday blog post from PayPal, however, said that the problems are not the result of compromised PayPal or Apple severs. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - IBM on Wednesday reported that the number of discovered cracks that hackers could exploit in computer software surged in the first half of the year. Full Story »