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 Tue November 06, 2007

FTC: Internet Ad Self-Regulation Falling Short

WASHINGTON - Internet advertisers have fallen short of promised self-regulation in respecting Internet users' privacy, a Federal Trade Commission official said Thursday, even as one firm, Tacoda, said it de...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

VMS Operating System Is 30 Years Old; Customers Believe It Can Last Forever

The venerable VMS operating system from Digital Equipment Corp. turned 30 years old last week. Hardly anyone noticed. Nevertheless, in an industry where change is a constant, VMS has few peers in its age brac...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

HP Combines Blade Servers, Unified Communications Software

Two of the hottest areas of technology development for the past year have been blade servers and unified communications suites. Hewlett-Packard has announced an initiative this week aimed at bringing the two t...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

IBM, Novell Move To Block SCO's Unix Sell Off

IBM and Novell on Thursday asked a bankruptcy court judge to block The SCO Group's sale of its Unix technology to a private equity firm, which the software vendor has proposed as part of its Chapter 11 reorgan...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Five Points On Offshore Outsourcing From Infosys' CEO

Kris Gopalakrishnan is making some changes at Infosys. Gopalakrishnan, an Infosys co-founder who was promoted from COO to CEO in June, announced on Oct. 26 a company reorganization that creates six units focus...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Apple Releases Fix For iMacs That Freeze Up

Apple has released software updates to fix the problem of the latest iMacs freezing up during normal use. The updates, released Thursday, are recommended for 20-inch and 24-inch models with 2.0 GHz and 2.4 GH...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Is CA Back On Track?

Systems management software company CA might finally be out of the woods financially. On Monday, the company beat Wall Street's expectations with second quarter earnings and increased guidance for fiscal 2008....

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Apple Allows Virtualization On 'Leopard' Server

Apple for the first time is allowing users of its server operating system to run multiple versions of the software on a single machine -- paving the way for Mac-based virtualization. According to the license ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

ACS Directors Resign, Company Says It's 'Pleased'

Outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services said late Friday that it's "pleased" that five independent members of its board of directors have resigned following a confrontation with founder and chairman Darwin Dea...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

EDS Quarterly Profit Rises 80%

NEW YORK - Electronic Data Systems, the world's No. 2 technology services company, reported an 80 percent increase in quarterly profit on Friday as new contract signings in the Americas helped boost revenue...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

VMS Operating System Is 30 Years Old; Customers Believe It Can Last Forever

The venerable VMS operating system from Digital Equipment Corp. just turned 30 years old. And hardly anyone noticed. Nevertheless, in an industry in which change is a constant, VMS has few peers in its age br...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Microsoft's SOA Strategy Is Ambitious, But Half-Baked

Microsoft last week unveiled what will become known as its Oslo vision: a simpler, cheaper service-oriented architecture for Windows that can be implemented inside and outside the corporate firewall.Oslo is a ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Mac Servers In A Windows World?

If you don't belong to the cult of Mac, you might ignore OS X Server 10.5, code-named Leopard. That would be a shame, particularly for small and midsize enterprises, even all-Microsoft shops. Stop snickering....

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Control Issues: Who Really Owns The PC?

The heightened defensive awareness--or, for the cynical among us, security product push--of the past 10 years has endowed IT with progressively more authority to lock down systems. Federal and state regulation...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Not Just Another Leopard Review

There's not much in Leopard that you could call new, as in never seen before. What I see instead is what I call a revolution of evolution. There are many things that suddenly work better than ever before, or j...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

NASA Provides Seed Funding For Four Science Projects

NASA will lead four projects to advance key technologies through joint-development programs. NASA on Friday announced the new projects, to help meet critical needs. Teams from Ames Research Center at Moffett ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

RIM Offers Cheaper Wireless Push E-Mail To SMB Market

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion on Monday began offering new business software for small and midsize companies that want affordable wireless e-mail on their smartphones. The new offering, called BlackBerr...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Carnegie Mellon Team Wins DARPA Robotic Car Race

A robotic vehicle, developed by Carnegie Mellon University professors and students, took the grand prize at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's 2007 Urban Challenge this weekend. Last year's winni...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Wikipedia's Wales Goes To Africa To Encourage Participation

Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is leading workshops in Johannesburg, South Africa, this weekend to stimulate the growth of local-language Wikipedia sites there. Wales, 41, will deliver a motivational keynote a...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Google Signs Up 30 Partners For Mobile Phone Push

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Monday lifted the shroud cloaking its long-rumored plans to enter the mobile phone market, saying it was building software to make the Internet run more easily on cellphon...