The premium paid by IBM for software maker SPSS likely presages richer prices for tech-company deals as the pace of computer industry consolidation picks up.IBM said on July 28 it's paying $1.2 billion in cash for SPSS, a maker of

Sprint Nextel has a new approach to reversing subscriber losses: If you can't keep customers, buy them. On July 28, Sprint Nextel said it was acquiring Virgin Mobile USA for $483 million in equity, including its existing 13.1 percent stake

SAN MATEO, Calif. July 29, 2009 - Quantivo, the leader in on-demand Behavioral Analytics, today announced that its SaaS service is now hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2. Quantivo changes the expectations of customer analytics

Newport Beach, CA, July 30, 2009 -- LiveTime Software, a leading provider of ITIL certified Service Management and Help Desk software, today announced its partnership with Spanish IT consulting company G2 Gobierno y Gestión de TI who are based in

DAYTON, OH (July 30, 2009) -- The U.S. Army's Information Technology, E-Commerce, and Commercial Contracting Center (ITEC4) has awarded CDO Technologies, (www.cdotech.com), a global leader in complete automatic ID technology development and integration solutions, a prime contract for Automatic Identification

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), the country's leading telecommunications provider, will deploy Oracle's Siebel CRM to increase productivity and strengthen its competitiveness.With Siebel CRM, PLDT can integrate internal business and customer-facing processes for better customer service and more efficient

Lisbon, Portugal, July 30, 2009 Altitude Software, the leading independent global contact center solutions vendor, today unveils its new Fast ROI Initiative. Altitude Software's innovative initiative ensures that partners and customers can pre-determine the return when considering Altitude uCI solutions

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 30, 2009 -- Funambol, the leading provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email, today introduced the world's first open source mobile cloud sync solution for mVoIP. The solution lets mVoIP users sync contacts

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2009 -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it will offer an affinity Visa Platinum credit card for people who want to contribute to advancing the Linux

HTC is priming the pump for sales of its latest Windows Mobile device in the U.S. The HTC Touch Pro2 will be available from T-Mobile with a touchscreen and user interface that aims to help customers streamline their communication and

He said that the low level of political culture allows top officials provoke panic among the population.

The said carrier rocket is a strategic intercontinental rocket РС-20 (15А18), converted into the carrier.

Ukrainian First Deputy Foreign Minister Yurii Kostenko told this to the press.

In western Ukraine, partly cloudy dry weather and northern wind of 3-8 m/s are expected. Temperature will stand at +12...+17 C at night and at +24...+29 C in the daytime.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, with its resolution No.775 dated June 10, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to transfer the gas distribution networks of 43 state-owned regional gas supply and gasification companies to one of the subsidiaries of the Naftohaz

State Property Fund acting head Dmytro Parfenenko announce this at a press conference.

He expressed this preparedness speaking in a Ukrainian News interview.

According to dealers of commercial banks, the quotations ranged between 8.05 and 8.10 UAH/USD in bid opening, then widened to 8.00-8.20 UAH/USD, and went down to 7.95-8.10 UAH/USD by the end of the trading.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A press release of the Fund says this referring to head of the IMF mission in Ukraine Ceyla Pazarbasioglu.