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 Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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 Thu October 04, 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 Wed October 03, 2007

Apple Hires General Counsel From Oracle

NEW YORK - Apple said Friday it hired Daniel Cooperman from Oracle to take the role of general counsel, in the company's second appointment of its top legal executive in the last year. Cooperman will join ...

updated Wed October 03, 2007

Splunk Stops The Log Slog

THE UPSHOT

updated Wed October 03, 2007

Time To Ask The Hard Questions

Organizations both large and small are rethinking their approach to managing their centralized computing systems. Taking a risk-averse approach and attempting to do things just as they were done a decade ago i...

updated Wed October 03, 2007

IT Survival Guide: Software As A Service Requires Diligence

Software as a service is an alluring concept to IT pros faced with endless software upgrades, patching, and license wrangling. Gartner estimates the market for enterprise applications as a service will enjoy c...

updated Wed October 03, 2007

IT Survival Guide: Exercise Caution Amid Open Source Options

Open source is typically of high quality and can be counted on to run reliably. That doesn't mean you don't have to do your homework before deploying it. First and foremost, you now have to contend with GPLv3...

updated Wed October 03, 2007

IT Survival Guide: Get Smart About Business Intelligence

For years, business-intelligence software was used primarily by data-analysis specialists at large companies. Increasingly, BI tools are being used by a range of employees in companies of all sizes. The trick ...

updated Wed October 03, 2007

IT Survival Guide

It was a cold, dark night when a weary IT professional opened the e-mail from her manager with the news: She was being pulled from the Exchange upgrade project and redeployed to work on a new voice-over-IP sys...

updated Wed October 03, 2007

Next Up For SOA: Convergence And Consolidation

The SOA Intermediary market is going through rapid consolidation as startups seek to expand beyond their niches and larger players offer suites that claim to cover all of a business' service integration needs....

updated Wed October 03, 2007

Adobe Piles On Microsoft With Online Word Processor

Adobe on Monday will join Google, IBM, and Sun -- not to mention startups like Ajax13, ThinkFree, TransMedia, and Zoho -- in what's becoming an industry-wide assault on Microsoft Office. At the Adobe Max Conf...

updated Wed October 03, 2007

Microsoft Joins Online Productivity Battle With Office Live Workspaces

Microsoft on Monday is expected to announce a free product called Office Live Workspaces for accessing and sharing documents online, which will enter testing "shortly," perhaps later this year. The software is...

updated Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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...