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 December 26, 2007

BusinessWeek Not Responsible For Ruining Microsoft Exec, Jury Rules

A former Microsoft executive who ended up jobless, broke, and separated from his wife after being identified by name and quoted in a BusinessWeek story about dysfunctional workplaces has lost a lawsuit he file...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, GoDaddy Subpoenaed

AVG said Wednesday that it has filed subpoenas under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Internet domain registrar GoDaddy. The antivirus company, also known as Grisoft,...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

Samba Gets Microsoft Protocol Info

Microsoft for the first time has complied with a European court ruling that it must document its Windows workgroup protocols, allowing other developers to implement them correctly and without fear of retaliati...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

Google Exterminates Its 'Orkut' Worm

Google says it has repaired a security issue in its Orkut social networking site that allowed a worm to propagate among at least 400,000 Orkut users. "Google takes the security of our users very seriously," a...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

Software AG Buys Parts Of Jacada For $26 Million

Software AG is acquiring the legacy application modernization product line of Jacada for $26 million, leaving Jacada free to pursue its second product line, its call center solutions business, under its own na...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

IBM Unveils Semantic Search For Corporate E-mail

IBM on Thursday introduced a test version of a semantic search engine for companies that want to give employees more advanced tools for searching their e-mail stored in Microsoft Outlook or IBM's Lotus Notes. ...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

Hacker Profile Becomes More Social, Adds Women

Most people involved in computer crimes are nameless and faceless to the organizations they attack, with the obvious exception of insiders. A few become known as a consequence of getting caught. There's Adam ...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

TransMedia Launches Ad-Free E-Mail

TransMedia on Thursday launched a free e-mail service that's also free of advertising. The service, dubbed Glide, offers 2 Gbytes of storage with its free accounts. Upgrading, at a cost of $5 a month or $49.9...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

Red Hat CEO Stepping Down

Matthew Szulik, who as CEO has steered Red Hat through a rapid and turbulent growth phase, is stepping down after nine years in the job. He will become chairman of Red Hat's board of directors. Jim Whitehurst...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

Microsoft Launches Zune Diagnostic Tool

Microsoft is offering a Zune diagnostic tool that gathers data to help decipher USB and wireless sync connection problems with the portable media player. The tool , introduced Thursday on Microsoft's online d...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

BEA Buys More Time To Seek Bid, Icahn Ends Lawsuit

BOSTON - Business software maker BEA Systems bought more time to try to sell itself on Thursday, postponing a possible proxy battle with its largest shareholder, Carl Icahn, who also withdrew his lawsuit ag...

updated Wed December 26, 2007

IBM Acquires Developer Of High-Speed Databases

IBM said Friday that it has acquired Solid Information Technology, a Finnish developer of high-speed database software. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Solid specializes in developing database...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Larry Ellison Controls NetSuite's Destiny Despite IPO

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's nine-year experiment to develop an on-demand software company is about to get market tested. NetSuite, co-founded by Ellison in 1998 to deliver business apps via a software-as-a-serv...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Microsoft Offers Service Pack Blocker

Many companies have a sort of a rule about Microsoft: wait until version two or the service pack to install. But that doesn't mean that if the software's already installed, you want the service pack, either. L...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Americans Ingested Too Much Holiday E-Mail Spam, Survey Finds

While Americans celebrated the harvest last month over the Thanksgiving holiday, spammers were busy with a harvest festival of their own: trying to gather new e-mail addresses. Symantec attributes the 72% inc...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Web Service Lets Users Try Out Mobile Phones

Mobile Complete on Monday launched an interactive Web service that lets mobile users test-drive popular phone models before buying them. Mobile Complete was founded in 2003 and specializes in tools for automa...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Software Vendors Accuse Prestigious Law Firm Of Piracy

A Philadelphia law practice recently ranked among the nation's top 200 firms has been accused by a software industry group of stealing business applications made by Adobe, Symantec, and other vendors, Informat...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Software Defined Radio Can Help Public Safety Groups Use 700 MHz Band

The Software Defined Radio Forum argues that SDR technology can help public safety agencies make use of spectrum in the 700 MHz band, a wide swath of which is scheduled to be auctioned off by the FCC next mont...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Trojan 2.0 Crafted Using Web 2.0 Technology

Web 2.0, meet Trojan 2.0. In its Q4 Web Security Trends Report, the Finjan Malicious Code Research Center warns that traditional methods of defense against crimeware Trojans -- signature-based detection and ...

updated Thu December 13, 2007

Software Vendors Face Rough Economic Waters In 2008

Vendors of both traditional packaged software and online software-as-a-service will be among the first victims in an expected economic downturn in 2008, according to a new report from technology analytics firm...