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

updated Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 2007

Splunk Stops The Log Slog

THE UPSHOT

updated Sun September 30, 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 Sun September 30, 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 Sat September 22, 2007

Software Freedom Law Center Files First U.S. Suit To Uphold GPL

The Software Freedom Law Center has filed suit against Monsoon Multimedia for copyright infringement of the Gnu General Public License, the first such lawsuit seeking enforcement of GPL copyright provisions. ...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Sixth Grade Game Programmer Nets $6.5 Million In Funding

Start with a Silicon Valley garage -- it worked for Google and HP. Add 6th grade programmer Arjun Mehta with a system for selling virtual goods in games and you get the archetypal startup story, with parents -...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Google's 'Container' Patents Hint At Future Drive Into Enterprise

Google's future ambitions in the enterprise may be spelled out in three new patents that foretell plans by the search engine to impact traditional IT applications across-the-board, according to an analysis pub...