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 Mon October 08, 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 Mon October 08, 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 Mon October 08, 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 Mon October 08, 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 Mon October 08, 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 Sun October 07, 2007

EBay, Others Launch Desktop Apps With Adobe AIR

EBay on Tuesday launched a hybrid Web-desktop application based on Adobe's AIR technology, which is still not even its final release version. And it's not the only one creating such an admixture. During Adob...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Facebook Privacy Settings Putting Users At Risk

A security company is urging Facebook to tighten its default privacy settings after a study showed that a large majority of users are offering up far too much personal information to keep them safe from cyberc...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Study: Companies Dive Into Web 2.0 Without Securing Risks

While the majority of enterprises are using Web 2.0 technology, they're not prepared to deal with the security risks that come along with it, according to a study released Wednesday. Forrester Research survey...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Microsoft's Revamped Zune Still No Match For Apple iPod

Microsoft unveiled its revamped Zune on Tuesday, introducing a smaller, sleeker device with a better screen and new wireless capabilities. In addition, the company launched Zune Social, an online community for...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Garmin's New Software Turns Smartphones Into GPS Devices

Garmin, a maker of navigation devices and applications, on Wednesday rolled out software that can turn a smartphone into a Garmin GPS device. Garmin Mobile XT pairs a smartphone's built-in GPS with Garmin's ...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

EU Opens In-Depth Probe Of IBM's Telelogic Buy

BRUSSELS, Oct 3 - The European Commission said on Wednesday it had opened an in-depth investigation of plans by IBM to buy Swedish business software company Telelogic for about 5.2 billion crowns ($798.6 mi...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Traffic Flow Application Helps After Minneapolis Bridge Disaster

After a Minneapolis bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River in August, software developers managed to create an application to reroute traffic within three days. When the Interstate 35 bridge collapsed Au...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Navteq Deal Pushes Nokia's Services Drive Into Overdrive

Nokia's $8.1 billion purchase of mapping data and location-based services provider Navteq, announced earlier this week, is the largest acquisition to date for the world's No. 1 handset maker. It also could mar...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Microsoft To Release .Net Source Code

First, Sun open sourced Java. Then, Adobe announced plans to open source its Flex software development kit. Now Microsoft is opening up the .Net Framework to developers, albeit in its own way. The company We...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

IBM Updates Its SOA-Enhanced Product Portfolio

IBM on Wednesday introduced upgrades of its various software products that ensure the integrity of business processes within service-oriented architectures. Among the updated products is the WebSphere Process...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Halo 3 Sales Top $300 Million In First Week

Microsoft said Thursday that its sci-fi video game Halo 3 posted sales of more than $300 million in its first week on the market. "Halo 3 is truly a cultural phenomenon," said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, in...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Apple Patches Year-Old Windows QuickTime Vulnerability

Apple has taken another swing at fixing a troublesome spate of QuickTime vulnerabilities. The company released an update for the Windows version of QuickTime media player on Wednesday afternoon to patch what ...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Software AG Plunges Into SOA Management

Getting started with SOA is easy, but once an enterprise has launched hundreds or thousands of services, things get complicated fast. Software AG is addressing proliferating services with an SOA management pac...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Apple DRM Patent Contemplates Media Sharing

In February, Apple CEO Steve Jobs urged people to "[i]magine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats," saying that Apple would embrace the possibility "...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Microsoft Forms 'Interactivity' Alliance With Toshiba, Hollywood Studios

Microsoft is teaming up with some major Hollywood studios and its former Zune manufacturing partner Toshiba to launch a forum aimed at developing new, interactive content for games, DVDs, and other consumer pr...