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

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 Thu October 04, 2007

NCR Spins Off Data Warehouse Specialist Teradata

Teradata became independent from NCR on Monday and began trading shares of its stock on the New York Stock Exchange. CEO Mike Koehler rang the opening bell. NCR spun off the company with the belief that it wo...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

AT&T To Buy Interwise To Beef Up Online Conferencing

AT&T said it will acquire online conferencing provider Interwise for $121 million and combine it with AT&T's global MPLS-based IP network. Interwise's voice-, Web-, and videoconferencing services are aimed at...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

SOA Governance Insufficient, Survey Finds

Most organizations implement Web services without reviewing compliance, according to a survey released Monday. The SOA Forum released survey results showing that 88% of respondents acknowledge insufficient SO...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Skype Loses Its CEO, eBay Takes A $1.4 Billion Charge

Facing up to the disappointing financial performance of its Skype unit, eBay reported Monday that Skype CEO and co-founder Niklas Zennstrom has "stepped down" as CEO of the VoIP operation and eBay will take a ...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Samsung's Got The Beat, Its Latest Music Phone

Samsung on Monday unveiled the Beat, a music-centric phone with external controls, stereo speakers, and Bluetooth support for connecting to wireless headphones. The latest music phone from Samsung is availabl...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

IBM Unveils Upgrade Of Parallel File System

IBM on Monday introduced an upgrade of its General Parallel File System software, which acts like a search engine to identify and move files between storage pools and feed high-speed business intelligence and ...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Nokia Acquires Navteq For $8.1 Billion

Nokia will pay $8.1 billion to acquire location and mapping company Navteq in a bold move that snatches the Chicago company from under the nose of Nokia's handset competitor Motorola. The cash acquisition was...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Nokia Siemens Networks R&D Outsourced To IBM

IBM said Monday that it has signed a deal to provide a range of research and development services to Nokia Siemens Networks -- a networking company formed after the spin-off of several related businesses by mo...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

HP Buys SPI Dynamics, Settles Cenzic Patent Dispute

Hewlett-Packard has settled two outstanding patent suits by reaching a patent-sharing agreement with Cenzic, a neighboring Santa Clara, Calif., supplier of security software. The original suits were between Ce...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

SAP To Kick Off Developers' Conference With Sun, IBM Partnership

SAP will announce Tuesday a partnership with Sun Microsystems and IBM that it says will make it easier to give users access to business systems while protecting companies' from compliance violations and other ...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Microsoft Ready To Launch Digital Phone Systems

Microsoft on Tuesday said it is ready to ship to manufacturers software that will power a new line of digital phone systems for small businesses. The Microsoft Response Point phone systems, which will be offe...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Apple Boot Camp Beta Expires With Leopard

Apple has told Boot Camp beta users that the software license will expire with the release of the next version of the Mac OS X, so customers will need to upgrade to Leopard to continue receiving support for th...

updated Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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...