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 Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 in order to continue receiving suppo...

updated Wed October 03, 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 Wed October 03, 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 Mon October 01, 2007

Chicago Taps IBM, Firetide To Install 'Operation Virtual Shield'

The City of Chicago has installed a state-of-the-art video surveillance system that will capture video at hundreds of points throughout the city and make the data available for real time analysis. Announced T...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Microsoft Hopes Add Ons Will Boost Windows Vista

After a delay of several weeks, Microsoft has shipped a free add-on pack for buyers of its pricey Windows Vista Ultimate operating system -- utilities the company hopes will help reverse flagging interest in t...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Cisco To Buy Latigent To Enhance Call Center Offerings

Cisco Systems on Thursday announced plans to acquire business intelligence provider Latigent in order to improve its own contact center offerings. Latigent is a small Chicago-based provider of BI and analytic...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Microsoft Unveils TV Networking Devices For Windows Media Center

Microsoft on Thursday introduced Linksys, D-Link, and Niveus Media products that would distribute high-definition video from a Windows Media Center PC to any home TV with a wired or wireless network connection...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Oracle, Dell, And EMC Unveil New Data Warehouse Initiative

Oracle announced its Oracle Optimized Warehouse initiative Thursday, a combination hardware and software products aimed at improving performance of data warehouse environments built on the Oracle Database with...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Pfizer To Assign E-Pedigrees To Viagra Bottles

Pfizer has licensed software from SupplyScape to assign and manage electronic pedigrees for Viagra and other drugs it manufacturers, SupplyScape announced Thursday. The deal indicates that Pfizer is starting t...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Sonic Adds Download-To-DVD Software To Qflix

Sonic Solutions, known for its Roxio DVD and CD burning software, gave a major boost to the movie download business Thursday by rolling out technology that makes it possible for someone to make their own copyr...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Plug-And-Play USB Phone Jack Debuts

Two telecom veterans on Thursday unveiled a plug-and-play USB phone jack called MagicJack, which turns a PC into a communications hub. The MagicJack is a device the size of a matchbox that acts as a phone jac...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

New York Times Recoups After Network Failure

The New York Times was back to its regular schedule Thursday after the internationally known newspaper experienced a network failure of more than three hours Wednesday afternoon. In a detailed internal e-mail...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Palm Enters Low-End Phone Market With Centro

NEW YORK - Palm introduced its smallest smartphone Thursday, making its first push into the low end of the mobile market in a bid to revive growth prospects and offer a cheaper alternative to Apple's iPhone...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Google Exec Sees No Condition On DoubleClick Deal

WASHINGTON - Google, the world's Web search leader, said Thursday it was unlikely U.S. antitrust authorities would seek to impose conditions on its $3.1 billion acquisition of advertising company DoubleClic...