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Software licensing drove a healthy increase in revenue for Oracle during its fourth quarter.

For the quarter, which ended May 31, the enterprise software giant reported revenue of $7.24 billion, up 24 percent from the same period a year earlier. During that three-month period, revenue from new software licenses ...

Software licensing drove a healthy increase in revenue for Oracle during its fourth quarter.

For the quarter, which ended May 31, the enterprise software giant reported revenue of $7.24 billion, up 24 percent from the same period a year earlier. During that three-month period, revenue from new software licenses ...

Mobile phone maker Nokia announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire the 52 percent of mobile software specialist Symbian that it does not already own, in a cash deal valued at about 264 million euros, or $410 million.

Long a phone maker, Nokia has been dabbling in Web apps and ...

With Bill Gates just days away from his semi-retirement from Microsoft, look for a tidal wave of reminiscences and glossy magazine spreads.

Yes, we do indeed have our own in the works; more on that in a sec. But one of the first to arrive is Fortune magazine's package, "...

Buyers and sellers on eBay are due to get a bigger cushion for transactions gone bad.

At its eBay Live community conference this week, the online auction giant offered details on more generous PayPal protections and incentives for its top sellers, and also feted the anniversary of its Kijiji classified ...

Two years ago, Kyle MacDonald acquired a house through a series of Web-chronicled trades that began with a red paper clip. Now he's ready to trade it away.

The asking price for the modest two-story house, located in Kipling, Saskatchewan? Nothing in particular, MacDonald says--just make it interesting.

The ...

The NLOS-C howitzer can fire six rounds per minute and has a fully automated armament system, meaning it requires just a two-man crew.

(Credit: BAE Systems)

For components of the Army's $160 billion Future Combat Systems program, two key rites of passage are field trials at a military base ...

Some customers of Time Warner Cable in Beaumont, Texas, may soon end up paying more for their Internet access than other customers.

In a test of metered Internet access that's set to begin Thursday, subscribers who go over their limit for uploading and downloading material will be charged $1 ...

AeroVironment is set to design and build a 3-inch nano air vehicle for DARPA.

(Credit: AeroVironment)

Unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming a big deal for the armed forces, even when they're really small.

AeroVironment said Tuesday that it has gotten the go-ahead, in the form of a Phase II ...

Artist's montage shows NASA's Phoenix spacecraft en route to and landing on Mars. For a gallery of images of the lander, click on the picture.

(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

Updated 5:15 PM PDT on the initial indication that Phoenix has landed. That follows ...