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 Fri October 05, 2007

As gPhone Reports Crest, HTC Releases New Smartphone Slate

Saying it has sold more than 800,000 of its Touch smartphones in Europe and Asia, Taiwanese vendor HTC launched a new version of the device, the Touch Dual, in London on Monday. The Touch Dual adds a keyboard ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Microsoft Offers Licenses For Fake Windows XP Copies

In the latest sign that Microsoft expects to support its Windows XP operating system for the foreseeable future, the company on Tuesday introduced a new licensing program designed to let users of fake or pirat...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

BSA Extends $1 Million Reward To Catch Software Pirates

The Business Software Alliance is extending its $1 million reward program for people reporting software piracy. The Rewards Program, which initially kicked off in the fall of 2005, is set up to encourage peop...

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...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

AT&T's Interwise Buy Could Be Its Ticket To Unified Communications

AT&T's planned acquisition of conferencing provider Interwise is expected to improve the carrier's IP networking offerings for business customers and may help it compete in the unified communications space wit...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

UPS Goes Paperless For Global Shipments And Returns

Shipping small packages across international borders has always been fraught with problems. Cumbersome paper invoices can slow shipments to a trickle. And then there's the hassle of what to do when a shipment ...

updated Fri October 05, 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 Fri October 05, 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 Fri October 05, 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 Fri October 05, 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 Fri October 05, 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 Fri October 05, 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 Fri October 05, 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 Fri October 05, 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...