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 Tue October 09, 2007

Microsoft To Spin Off Halo 3 Developer Bungie

Microsoft said Friday that it will spin off the development unit that created the record-setting video game Halo 3. The company said it plans to jettison its Bungie Studios group but will maintain an equity s...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Microsoft's Explorer Update Ditches Windows Genuine Advantage

Microsoft has released an updated version of Internet Explorer 7 that dispenses with a cumbersome security feature designed to ensure users are running the Web browser atop legitimate copies of the Windows ope...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Virgin Inks Deal With BoingBoing To Offer Blog-Like TV On Its Flights

BoingBoing is joining the mile high club. Boing Boing TV, a new venture borne from the popular BoingBoing.net technology blog, will be available to all passengers on Virgin America airline flights beginning ne...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

RIAA Victory Sends Message But Won't Stop File-Sharing

The jury's guilty verdict this week in a file-sharing trial could deter others from pushing back against the recording industry's copyright claims. However, it is unlikely that it will completely stop music ...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Math Whizzes Turbocharge An Online Retailer's Sales

Mathematicians revolutionized Wall Street in the 1970s, and according to MIT Sloan School of Management professor Jérémie Gallien, they're now using complex equations to make the retail industry ...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Rolling Review: Web App Scanners Still Have Trouble With Ajax

Companies that make heavy use of Ajax and don't want to expose themselves to attack should have some protection, whether a skilled in-house security tester, Ajax-capable software as a service, or the most expe...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Apple In Business: Riding The iPhone Wave

Apple's iPod made its way into business environments as employees realized that, in addition to all those MP3 files, they had 60 Gbytes of portable storage to take into the office. Then came the iPhone and its...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

SAP To Acquire Business Objects In $6.8-Billion Friendly Takeover

In an unusual Sunday software hook-up, business-intelligence powerhouse SAP said it had reached an agreement to acquire Business Objects SA in a friendly takeover worth some $6.8 billion. SAP is making a cash...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

VMware Upgrades ESX Hypervisor, Management Tools

VMware will upgrade its ESX Server hypervisor and its Virtual Infrastructure 3 management software before the end of the year, extending its popular VMotion tool's migration capability to storage as well as ph...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

SAS Charts Road Map For Built-Into-Database Analytics

SAS Institute is planning to work with the largest database and data warehouse vendors to get its analytics software embedded in their products. That should help companies do faster and higher volume data anal...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Baggage Bots, RFID Will Track And Transfer Airline Luggage

An airport in the Netherlands hopes that baggage-handling robots and RFID will cut down on the amount of baggage lost as it is being transferred between connecting flights. IBM and Vanderlande Industries have...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Motorola Wins Infrastructure Contracts For Taiwan's Major WiMax Project

Motorola reported that it has won two WiMax infrastructure contracts to work on the development of Taiwan's national M-Taiwan project, which is planned to create a "ubiquitous mobile" network. Announced Monda...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

YouTube Service Hijacked By Spammers

Spammers are hijacking a service on YouTube to send out waves of e-mails that evade spam defenses by hiding under the video Web site's coattails. Security company Sophos warned users last week that spammers a...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

SAP's Business Objects Buy Could Trigger More Software Mergers

SAP's offer on Sunday to acquire Business Objects for $6.8 billion, or $59.35 per share, could help further consolidate the shrinking pool of vendors that provide software used by businesses to power their bac...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Woman Hit By File-Sharing Verdict Fights Back

The Minnesota woman ordered to pay $220,000 after being found guilty of illegally downloading copyrighted music is loudly voicing her own opinion about the case, including plans to appeal the decision. Jammie...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Microsoft Releases Windows XP SP3 For Testing

In yet another sign that Microsoft isn't planning a retirement party for its Windows XP operating system any time soon, the company has released a new service pack for the Windows Vista predecessor. Windows X...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Vivisimo Merges Web 2.0 Social Search With Enterprise Search

Vivisimo is merging Web 2.0 concepts like social search and networking with its latest enterprise search software release, Velocity 6.0, which the company unveiled Monday. The company said the new release wi...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Adobe Confirms Critical Bug Affecting Windows XP

Adobe has confirmed that a critical vulnerability affects users running Microsoft Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7. The company reported in an online security advisory that the code execution vulnerability ...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Applebee's Exec Preaches Data Mining For Business Decisions

Randall Parman, database architect at restaurant chain Applebee's International and head of Teradata's user group, opened Teradata's annual user conference in Las Vegas Monday with a warning to those who aren'...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Google And IBM Partner To Push Cloud Computing

Google and IBM on Monday announced an initiative to advance large-scale distributed computing by providing hardware, software, and services to universities. The two companies aim to reduce the cost of distrib...