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 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...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Microsoft Unveils Free Web Health Tools For Consumers

Microsoft, which has been building up its health-care software and services offering over the last two years, hammered a big stake in the ground on Thursday with new free, Web-based personal health-record tool...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Sun Unveils Virtualization Platform

Sun Microsystems on Thursday unveiled its virtualization platform, a combination hypervisor and management tool that the company plans to start rolling out in December. Sun xVM will initially comprise a serve...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Expect 7 Bulletins, 4 Critical

Microsoft plans to release seven security bulletins next week, including patches for critical bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office. Four of the bulletins address critical vulnerabilities, which is Mi...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

IBM Targets SMBs With 'Express' Versions Of Rational, Tivoli Tools

IBM on Friday unveiled new software tools designed to help small and mid-sized businesses compete on a more even footing with larger enterprises. The IBM Rational Build Forge Express Edition offers a software...

updated Sun October 07, 2007

Guitar Legend Riffs On Microsoft's Communications Server

Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 isn't due out until later this month, but already test partners like legendary electric guitar maker Gibson Guitar is singing its praises. In a recent interview w...

updated Sun October 07, 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 Sun October 07, 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 Sun October 07, 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 Sun October 07, 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 Fri October 05, 2007

Major League Baseball Signs Deal With Medialink

CHICAGO - Major League Baseball said Tuesday it will use a service provided by a joint venture of Medialink Worldwide and the Netherlands' Philips Electronics to track the use of its game broadcast footage ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Microsoft Swallows Jellyfish For Live Search

Microsoft on Monday said that it had acquired Jellyfish.com, a social shopping search service, for an undisclosed sum. "We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family -- we recently purchased a c...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Oracle Pushes Enterprise 2.0

Oracle is pushing to establish itself as a legit player in Enterprise 2.0. At a conference Tuesday, the company said that its strategy is to "fuse Enterprise 2.0 capabilities into Oracle's technologies." While...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Merging Wired And Wireless Technologies Will Generate Billions In Revenue

In the next five years, fixed-mobile convergence will generate more than $35 billion in revenue for service providers and hardware vendors, according to a new study from Insight Research. Fixed-mobile converg...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Tuxedo Software: An Old Dog Learning New SOA Tricks

The venerable Tuxedo transaction processing monitor is 24 years old. It's survived the decline of the mainframe, witnessed the rise of client/server computing, and is still working hard behind the scenes with ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Canada Wants To Become The Next India For U.S. Software Companies

Could Canada become the next India for American-based software companies outsourcing work? Not exactly. However, Canada is becoming an attractive option many American software developers are eyeing for their ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Sued Over Competitive Bidding Patent

For the third time in about a month, Google has been sued for patent infringement. Last week, Performance Pricing filed a lawsuit against AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, charging the four companies with in...