Chief Executive of Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, has declared that the company is now open to acquisitions. In-house research and partnerships, however, will continue to remain the firm's main priorities.

Yahoo’s revitalized attempts to create a more streamlined and competent interface took shape on Monday in the form of a revamped Yahoo home page – the efforts will soon extend in the direction of an upgraded Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Search, thereby bringing in a number of social networking features.

In spite of a sharp plunge in its fiscal fourth quarter revenue, the $105 million - or 78 cents a share - quarterly loss posted by the Pre smartphone maker Palm Inc, was smaller than the expected loss figures estimated by the analysts.

In the first-ever round of layoffs since Carol Bartz took over the reins as the Chief Executive of the struggling Internet bigwig Yahoo in January, the company is planning to cut several hundred jobs, out of its present work force of 13,700 employees.

The network equipment sector thus far had shown some resilience to the economic downturn, but not any more! The fourth-quarter results of Juniper Networks Inc, and the company's outlook for 2009, clearly indicate a slowdown in technology spending.

In a financial earnings conference call, Palm chief executive Ed Colligan revealed that wireless carriers as well as software developers are holding devices with the new Palm 'Nova' OS - the company's Linux-based, mobile OS platform. Colligan touted the revamped 'Nova' OS platform as being integral to the company's return to profitability in 2010.

Yahoo said on Wednesday that it had decided to comply with concerns of privacy advocates and regulators - regarding the amount of time for keeping data about consumers - and would purge personally identifiable information related to user search queries after three months, from a prior standard of 13 months.

Symantec Corp., a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions has launched Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition, a new offering designed specifically with the gaming community in mind.

The Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition is specially designed for gaming and is likely to use 80% less memory as compared with other antivirus software.