AT&T Intros Moto Q Smartphone With Global Roaming

AT&T on Thursday announced that Motorola's 3G-enabled Moto Q 9h smartphone will be available to the carrier's customers in the United States starting this week. The Moto Q 9h, or the Moto Q global as AT&T calls it, has the ability to access high-spee... full story

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Oracle Won't Budge Off Original BEA Offer; Bid Expires Sunday

Oracle president Charles Phillips termed BEA Systems' request for $21 a share Thursday "an impossibly high price," and stood by Oracle's first offer of $17 a share. In letters traded Thursday, BEA's board of...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Microsoft's Halo 3 Sparks 100% Jump In Xbox 360 Sales

What a difference a biologically enhanced super-soldier makes. Microsoft reported Thursday that sales of its Xbox 360 video game console jumped 100% in its fiscal first quarter, thanks to the debut of Halo 3. ...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Vonage Settles Its Patent Infringement Litigation With Verizon

"Two down, one to go," is the battle cry at Vonage this weekend after the VoIP firm announced an agreement with Verizon Communications over their long-standing patent litigation. The two sides came to terms ...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Apple Stores Gird For Friday Leopard Launch

Apple is pulling out all the stops for the Friday launch of its new Leopard operating system. Apple Stores around the country will close from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, then reopen until 10 pm to welcome tech aficion...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Private Firms Complete $8.3 Billion Purchase Of Avaya

Private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG Capital on Friday completed the acquisition of IP telephony provider Avaya in a transaction valued at about $8.3 billion. Under the merger agreement, which Avaya adop...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Predicting The Future Of Communications In Boston

IT decision makers are facing something of a dilemma these days: Many advanced communications developments have been adopted, but companies and consumers don't necessarily know what to do with them. A host of...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Apple's Leopard Fanfare Anticlimactic To P2P Users

Apple officially launches its new Leopard operating system Friday. But the first major release of the Mac OS in nearly two and a half years has been the hottest download for months on peer-to-peer networks, ri...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Novell Lays Off 250 U.S. Workers

BOSTON - Business software maker Novell laid off 250 workers in the United States as part of an ongoing restructuring program to slash costs, company spokesman Bruce Lowry said Friday. Many of the jobs wil...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

PBS Station Invokes Google Maps To Help San Diego Residents Flee Fires

The KPBS public broadcasting station in San Diego has created a mashup of fire information with Google Maps, telling residents in areas affected by fire which neighborhoods are to be evacuated, which roads are...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Inside Google's Michigan Office

Google has its sprawling headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and flashy offices in Manhattan. But it's got another growing office close to the country's heartland: Ann Arbor, Mich. Google Ann Arb...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Medsphere Settles Lawsuit With Former CTO Over Open Source Code

A bitter open source dispute has been settled between Medsphere Systems, the company formed around the OpenVista health care system, and its former chief technical officer, Steve Shreeve. On June 6, 2006, Shr...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Fluke Networks Previews Unified Performance Management System

Fluke Networks, a maker of hardware and software for installation, monitoring, and maintenance of enterprise and telecom carrier networks, on Wednesday will preview its new unified performance management syste...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Forgot Your Password? Just Crack It

ElcomSoft on Monday said that it had filed to patent for a way to decrease the amount of time required to recover forgotten passwords, not to mention withheld passwords, by a factor of 25. The technique uses ...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Gmail Now Has IMAP Support

Gmail users can now use IMAP to synchronize e-mail on their iPhones and desktops. Matthew Glotzbach, head of products, Google Enterprise. (click for image gallery) Matthew Glotzbach, product ...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

IBM Buys Storage-Services Company NovusCG

IBM on Wednesday acquired storage-services company NovusCG, a move that boosts the company's strategy of becoming a larger supplier of high-growth, high-margin software and services. Financial terms were not d...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

XenSource Founder Outlines Virtualization's Road Map At Interop

XenSource, which this summer was acquired by Citrix Systems for $500 million, shared its vision for the future of virtualization at the Wednesday morning keynote of the Interop show in New York City. ...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Google's Glotzbach Evangelizes 'Culture Of Collaboration' At Interop

It's obvious that size isn't as important as it used to be, and bigger no longer means better, but not everyone in the enterprise and IT knows how to compete in a world where speed has become everything. ...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

'Faceberry' Mashes Up BlackBerry, Facebook

Mashing up the world's premier smartphone for mobile professionals with the most popular social networking site on the Web, Research in Motion Wednesday launched a version of Facebook customized for BlackBerry...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

NASA Coordinates With Google For Real-Time Wildfire Imaging

NASA will deploy an unmanned airplane to help in the battle to contain wildfires raging through Southern California. NASA announced Wednesday that the Ikhana would take off from Dryden Flight Research Center ...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

With Apps In Forefront, Google Cranks Up Enterprise Sales

Google is making a serious effort to put its enterprise products in front of its search and advertisement businesses these days, executives said Wednesday at Interop New York. Matthew Glotzbach, product manag...