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 12, 2007

Western Digital Blocks Media File Sharing From Storage Device

External storage units have become popular for transferring electronic media between PCs and other networked devices, but stories surfacing Friday suggest some devices made by Western Digital put the brakes on...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Verizon Sued Over GPL Code In Its FiOS Router

The Software Freedom Law Center on Friday filed suit against Verizon for allegedly violating free software's General Public License through its fiber-optic Internet and television service, FiOS. Verizon is a ...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Microsoft Releases HD Photo Plug-In For Photoshop

Microsoft on Friday released for download the final version of a plug-in that allows users of Adobe's Photoshop digital imaging software to work with files created in Microsoft's new HD Photo format. The plug...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Oracle Buys Moniforce To Bolster Its Application Monitoring Experience

Oracle this week acquired Dutch software vendor Moniforce in a move that's expected to add consideration of the end user's experience in Oracle's application performance management tools. Financial details wer...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

New Apple Store Highlights 'Geniuses,' Services

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO - At Apple's new store in Manhattan, the smiling "geniuses" and "concierges" standing at attention are as important as the iPods and Mac computers on display. The store, Apple's seco...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Red Hat Challenges IBM With Open Source Messaging System

Red Hat is betting that a fresh, open source messaging system can displace one of corporate America's most deeply entrenched pieces of software, IBM's WebSphere MQ, and similar messaging systems such as Tibco ...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Will You Buy? More Companies Turn To Predictive Analytics Software

Bon-Ton stores recently mined 10 million customer records from its clothing stores nationwide and pulled a sample set of 100 million transactions. From that, it analyzed 200 separate factors, including what ty...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Startup Of The Week: StackSafe Tackles Software Testing

Never introduce another line of code to your company's IT infrastructure without testing it first. That's the thinking behind StackSafe's soon-to-be-released product, which creates a virtual image of your soft...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Windows Into a Parallel SOA Universe

Microsoft isn't the first name that comes to mind when you think about service-oriented architecture vendors. Despite Windows' ubiquity on the desktop and its advance into the server market, SOA is firmly asso...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

How RIM, Salesforce, Red Hat, And VMware Are Building Developer Ecosystems

In often underestimated factor in the success of tech companies--from software vendors Microsoft and Oracle to e-commerce sites Amazon.com and eBay--is the health of their developer ecosystems. Having thousand...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Open Source Software Developers Sue Verizon, Claim FiOS Violates GPL

In what could become a major test case for the most widely used open source software license, a group that represents open source developers has sued Verizon Communications -- claiming that the telecom giant's...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Microsoft Opens Beta Of Office Live Workspace

Microsoft's Office Live Workspace, the company's latest foray into the world of Web-based office productivity, is going live. The company will gradually pull the cover off the document sharing application, fi...

updated Wed December 12, 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 Wed December 12, 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 Wed December 12, 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 Wed December 12, 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 Wed December 12, 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 Wed December 12, 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 Wed December 12, 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 Wed December 12, 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...