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

Microsoft To Update Visual Studio, .NET This Month

Microsoft plans to release the next version of its Visual Studio software development application and an updated version of the .NET development framework by the end of this month, the company announced on Mon...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

HP MediaSmart Home Server Available This Month

Hewlett-Packard's delayed MediaSmart Server, based on Microsoft's Windows Home Server operating system, is making its way to retailers this month. The new product for backing up and sharing photos, music, vid...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Thomas Cook Signs $400 Million Outsourcing Contract With Accenture

Travel agency Thomas Cook has signed a $400 million outsourcing contract with Accenture for management of software applications and technology infrastructure, plus finance, accounting, and human resources serv...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Sales Of Video Phones To Double By 2010

Worldwide sales of video-enabled mobile phones are expected to more than double by 2010 compared to last year, according to a report released by Infonetics Research on Monday. Sales of such video phones with ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Intel Unveils Seven Itanium Processors

Intel on Wednesday introduced the Itanium 9100 series processors, which include a new feature for better data integrity and reliability of applications. The latest series represents the sixth generation of th...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Apple's Latest Switchers: Malware Writers

Long the beneficiary of security through obscurity, Macs may have become popular enough to bring malware writers over to the platform. Intego, a company that makes Mac security software, on Tuesday issued a ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Why Linux Will Succeed On The Desktop

[Editor's Note: This article offers a counterpoint and rebuttal to our earlier article, 7 Reasons Why Linux Won't Succeed On The Desktop.] I believe Linux will become the de-facto standard desktop ope...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Microsoft's Oslo Vision: Windows Becomes A Platform For Heterogeneous SOA

Microsoft unveiled Tuesday what is sure to become known as its Oslo vision: a simpler, cheaper service-oriented architecture that can be implemented by the Windows platform both inside and outside the enterpri...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

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 cal...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Apple Boosts Speed Of MacBooks With Intel's 'Santa Rosa'

Apple on Thursday moved its MacBook laptops over to Intel's Santa Rosa chipset, boosting the processing speed of the notebooks. In addition, MacBook Pros, which have had Intel's latest mobile platform since J...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

IBM Launches $1.5 Billion Security Initiative

IBM on Thursday announced a major security initiative encompassing products, services, and research to help businesses manage risk and keep information safe. To support the initiative, IBM said it plans to spe...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Cisco To Buy Policy Management Specialist Securent For $100 Million

Cisco Systems announced Thursday that it will acquire Securent Inc., a provider of policy management software for enterprises. Cisco said it will pay about $100 million in cash in the deal in addition to assum...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Linux PC Hits Shelves At Wal-Mart For $199

It probably won't run Crysis or other state-of-the-art games, but a Linux-based PC that Wal-Mart began offering this week for $199 should get the job done for e-mail, Web browsing, and other everyday computing...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

First Lawsuit Over GPL Settled Before It Goes To Court

The Software Freedom Law Center has settled its first U.S. lawsuit to uphold the GPL license without going to court. The target of the suit, Monsoon Multimedia, on Tuesday agreed to appoint an open source comp...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

iPhone Named 'Invention Of The Year'

Time magazine has named Apple's iPhone "invention of the year," citing is design, innovative touch screen, and potential for changing the tech industry's approach to mobile computing. While bestowing the hono...

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...