Industry

SAP to hike Standard Support fees on new contracts

Standard Support pricing will go from 18 percent to 19 percent of license fees, effective July 15, for new customers

Drop in Windows 7 usage rate is misleading

The numbers have started to inch downward for Windows 7, but aren't likely to continue doing so for long.

Oracle to buy network equipment maker Acme Packet for $1.7 billion

The deal gives Oracle added presence in many of the world's top telcos

Security-as-a-service gaining popularity

Costs are an advantage, but so is flexibility.

EU’s copyright reform talks a waste of time, says digital rights group

Civil liberties group accuses EU Commission of trying to avoid copyright reform

U.S. inventiveness at highest point since Industrial Revolution

But Sweden leads in patent production on a per capita basis

Lotus position: IBM kills the name, but software and founders live on

NGOs warn of US lobbying efforts against European privacy legislation

Europe is eyeing strong privacy regulation that some U.S. companies oppose

Twitter hacked; 250,000 users must reset their passwords

The company said it has been targeted by hackers this week who may have made off with user names and passwords

Facebook: 76 million accounts were fake last year

Just over 7 percent of accounts were duplicates or not held by real people, the company said in a regulatory filing