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 Mon October 01, 2007

Sun Micro's Java Push Faces Rivals, Skeptics

SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems is betting the Java software platform it developed will raise its fortunes in emerging markets, but it faces tough competition from bigger rivals familiar with Java -- as we...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

KVM May Be A Game Changer For Server And Desktop Virtualization

KVM or Kernel Virtual Machine is a potential, game-changing player in the field of server and desktop virtualization. KVM emerged out of an Israeli company, Qumranet, last year as lead developer Avi Kivity po...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Apple Patches The iPhone, Turns Some Into iBricks

Apple came out Thursday with an iPhone software update that patches 10 security bugs that could enable a hacker to remotely execute malicious code, reveal e-mail credentials, or even make a call without the us...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Microsoft To Extend Windows XP Sales As Vista Concerns Mount

Responding to some customers' lukewarm embrace of Windows Vista, Microsoft said it will extend by several months availability of the operating system's predecessor, Windows XP. The company said it will make t...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Morgan Stanley Must Pay Millions For Withholding E-Mails

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority this week said Morgan Stanley has to pay $12.5 million in fines to resolve charges for mishandling e-mail dated before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Morgan...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Forget The Classics, Try A Facebook College Course

STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford students can try to borrow a Web page from a Harvard dropout this year thanks to a course in building software for Facebook, the wildly popular social network. "This is a class ...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Embotics Manages Both Running And Offline Virtual Machines

As demand for virtual machines increases, so does the possibility of generating them ad hoc, then losing track of them. Controlling virtual machine "sprawl" is a problem that's beginning to be addressed by too...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Google Buys Mobile-Oriented Social Startup Zingku

Stymied for the time being in its effort to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, Google is having more success buying up small companies. Mobile social networking service Zingku said Thursday that certain of...

updated Mon October 01, 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 Mon October 01, 2007

Splunk Stops The Log Slog

THE UPSHOT

updated Mon October 01, 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 Mon October 01, 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 Mon October 01, 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 Sun September 30, 2007

Halo 3 Sales Smash Game Industry Records

Microsoft's Halo 3 racked up $170 million in sales on its first day of availability, making it the hottest-selling title in video game history. Microsoft said late Wednesday that the game's sales easily surpa...

updated Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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...