South Korean electronic giant Samsung may soon be allowed to sell its redesigned Galaxy Tab tablet in the, thanks to a German court's preliminary ruling that the redesigned tablet is not a copycat version of Apple's iPad.

Previously, the German court had ruled in favor of Apple, forcing the South Korean manufacturer to modify its Galaxy Tab 10.1 and name it Galaxy Tab 10.1N.

But, the Cupertino, Calif.-based gadget maker challenged even the redesigned version of the Galaxy Tab and requested the court for an injunction on the distribution of the devise in Germany.

With sluggish demand for databases, applications and computer servers having delivered an apparent blow to Oracle's second quarter earnings, the bigwig business software maker recently reported sales and profits which fell short of the analysts' expectations.

The second quarter plunge witnessed by Oracle was largely an upshot of the company's inability to close deals; thereby marking an indication that troubling times are seemingly in the offing in the technology arena.

Following a series of disastrous product launches, tablet firm Fusion Garage finally slipped into the dark.

Fusion Garage was supposed to roll out its Grid 10 tablet on 15th of September this year, but it pushed back the launch date to 1st of October, and now it seems as if the tablet will never see the light of the day.

The US arm of the PR firm representing Fusion Garage has already confirmed that the tablet company has been uncommunicative for several weeks. The PR firm, called McGrath Power, also stated that they would stop working with Fusion Garage.

Software giant Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform is now simpler, more open and more affordable, thanks to the new updates that have upgraded the SQL Azure database service, simplified billing and management.

The new Windows Azure SDK for Node. js provides developers with a better environment to create and deploy better Node apps, with hosting, storage and service bus support for Azure.

As promised at PASS summit in October this year, Microsoft will also deliver a restricted preview of an Apache Hadoop-based service for Windows.

Showing benevolent side of their personalities, three Google executives offered NASA $33 million to renovate the iconic Moffett Field airship house- Hangar One.

Hanger One at NASA's Moffett Field in Mountain View, a giant eight-acre structure that was designed to house military airships back in 1933, is in disarray and badly needs renovation.

Google chief executive Larry Page, executive chairman Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin have proposed paying the complete $33 million cost of renovating the historic landmark.

A Chinese court on Wednesday dismissed Apple's request to declare it the only legal owner of the iPad trademark in China.

The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court rejected Apple's claim that Chinese firm Proview Technology was illegally using the iPad name. The court ruled that Proview Technology had legal right to use the iPad name for its product as it had registered the trademark in China as well as many other countries as back as 2000.

According to the information forwarded by a number of unnamed sources, Research In Motion (RIM) has come up with a $99 BlackBerry PlayBook offer this holiday season, but only for a select group --- that of the RIM employees!

Going by several reports, the 16GB 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is being made available to the RIM employees for $99 via a special corporate portal. In addition, the 32GB and the 64GB versions of the tablet are being offered for $149 and $199 respectively.

In a study which chiefly underscores that smartphone users consider changing their handsets quite a hassle, UK-based analyst firm GfK has revealed that nearly 20 percent of smartphone users would rather change banks than their handsets.