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 Sat September 22, 2007

Connecticut Sues Consultant, Accenture, Over Lost Data

The State of Connecticut is suing its own computer consultant, Accenture, for losing personally identifying information on 58 residents and hundreds of state bank accounts and purchasing cards. Connecticut at...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

MTV's ThinkMTV, A Socially Conscious Social Network

Viacom's MTV entered the social networking scene on Thursday with the introduction of Think.MTV.com, an online community that promotes youth activism. ThinkMTV, which launched in beta, is financially backed ...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Reining In Health Care Costs Through Stricter Supply Management

Could the secret of lowering health care costs nationally come from supply chain improvements? At least one executive thinks so from a major New York City healthcare provider that's saving millions each year...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

VMware Product Updates Fix Several Security Bugs

VMware released critical updates to several products Thursday, primarily to fix several security vulnerabilities. The virtualization software provider issued the updates to deal with vulnerabilities that coul...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Intel Launches Developer-Focused Sites

Intel on Thursday unveiled several sites for software developers, including one in which the chipmaker will share ideas and alpha code in order to solicit feedback. In addition, Renee James, VP of Intel's sof...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

RIM Intros Wi-Fi BlackBerry For Enterprise

Priced to compete with the iPhone and offering a similar blend of cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity, the dual-mode BlackBerry 8820 is now available to U.S. customers through AT&T, the company said Thursday. In...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

NBC To Offer Free, Ad-Supported Downloads Of TV Shows

Having recently dumped Apple as a partner, NBC plans to move back in with its old flame, advertising. The entertainment company said on Wednesday that it plans to launch a service called NBC Direct next mont...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

U.S. Senate Panel Sets Sept. 27 Hearing On Google Deal

WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senate subcommittee will hold a hearing next week to look at Google Inc's $3.1 billion acquisition of Web advertising supplier Doubleclick Inc., the panel announced Thursday. Google's p...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Oracle Sees 2Q Revenue Up As Much As 21%

BOSTON - Oracle Corp said Thursday it expects second-quarter revenue to rise 19 percent to 21 percent from a year ago, with new software license revenue increasing 15 percent to 25 percent. It also forecas...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

U.S. Senators Look To Extend Internet Tax Ban

WASHINGTON - Top Senate Democrats Thursday were working on a compromise to extend a ban on state Internet access taxes before the moratorium expires on Nov. 1. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Commerc...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Google Debuts Online Tool To Design Newspaper Ads

Google on Thursday released a free software tool that allows Google AdWords advertisers to create their own Google Print Ads for display in newspapers. The company released Google Print Ads in July, a service...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Intel Offers Vision On The Future Of Virtual Worlds

Intel believes the Internet is heading toward a time when people will move across virtual worlds of cinematic quality, enjoying new forms of entertainment, conducting business, and socializing. And for chipma...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Dell To Sell Data Warehouse Versions Of Microsoft SQL Server

Dell on Thursday said it will offer preconfigured, 1-Tbyte, 2-Tbyte and 4-Tbyte data warehouse versions of Microsoft's SQL Server database, according to announcements made at Microsoft's SQL Server user group,...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Bill Gates Is Still America's Richest Man

His position as the world's highest net-worth individual may have been usurped by a Mexican telecom tycoon, but Microsoft chairman Bill Gates can at least say he's still the wealthiest person in the United Sta...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Halo 3 Leaked Onto The Web; Blame The Covenant?

Is it a plot to ruin Halo 3's much hyped debut on Tuesday? A scheme orchestrated by Master Chief's nemesis The Covenant? Probably not, but bootleg copies of the most widely anticipated video game in history --...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

New Version Of Microsoft Office Due In 2009

Office 2007 came out earlier this year, and Microsoft released another service pack for Office 2003 earlier this week. But the next version of the productivity suite, code-named Office 14, is just around the b...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Wikipedia Discredits Reports It's Abandoning Open Editing

Reports of the death of Wikipedia's democratic editing model appear to be greatly exaggerated. According to the Telegraph in the U.K., Wikipedia plans to end the practice of letting anyone edit encyclopedia e...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Apple Won't Support Unlocked iPhones

People who unlock their iPhones in order to connect to wireless carriers other than the exclusive service provider AT&T won't get any support from Apple if the phone breaks, even if it's still under warrant, A...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Google, IBM Take Another Run At Microsoft's Office Suite

No vendor has come close to breaking Microsoft's grip on PC applications, but they keep trying. Google, IBM, OpenOffice.org, and Yahoo last week gave it another go. New products from those companies are cheap...

updated Sat September 22, 2007

Analysis: Social Networks May Become Interoperable

Ever since Facebook opened its platform earlier this year so third parties could offer "applications" that users could install as widgets on their Facebook homepages, the company has been hailed as a forward-t...