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 Fri October 26, 2007

VMware Posts Impressive Numbers In First Quarterly Report

VMware, the market leader in virtualization software, increased revenues 90% in its third quarter over the same period a year ago. It produced earnings per share of $.18 compared to $.06 per share a year ago, ...

updated Fri October 26, 2007

Online Gambling Firms Urge EU To Turn To U.S. Congress

BRUSSELS, Oct 24 - Online gambling firms want European Union trade chief Peter Mandelson to change tack over a controversial move by the United States to close its multi-billion dollar gambling market to fo...

updated Fri October 26, 2007

Apple Launches iPhone Resource Center For Developers

Want to develop applications for the iPhone? Apple has launched an iPhone developer center for people just like you. The iPhone Dev Center, introduced Wednesday, is a new section of Apple's Developer Connecti...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Vonage Seeking Review Of Verizon Patent Verdict

NEW YORK - Internet phone company Vonage Holdings said Wednesday it filed a motion seeking a review of a U.S. court's verdict on a patent litigation case with Verizon Communications. On Sept. 26, a U.S. ap...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Beatles Reunited On iTunes As Harrison Goes Digital

LONDON, Oct 10 - Nine albums from the late George Harrison have been made available online through retailers such as Apple's iTunes, record label Parlophone said on Wednesday, as the fourth and final member...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Companies Shifting Virtual World Strategies

SAN JOSE - When Cisco Systems decided to enter the Second Life virtual world, things didn't turn out exactly as the network equipment supplier expected. "We were quick. We got into Second Life and put up a...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Consumers Losing In High-Def DVD Copyright Protection Fight

In the ongoing battle between Hollywood and film thieves, consumers -- especially early adopters -- are the real losers. That's the assessment of a sampling of industry experts Wednesday as the latest efforts...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

IBM Teams With Second Life To Build Portable Avatars

IBM and Second Life creator Linden Labs are teaming up in an effort to create avatars that can jump from one virtual world to the next. Under the plan, the companies will work together to develop standards th...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Skype Co-Founder Admits eBay Paid Too Much

Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, suddenly without a full-time job at the VoIP firm, confirmed this week what many eBay investors suspected the moment the online auction firm acquired Skype: eBay paid too muc...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Google Opens San Francisco Office In Former Coffee Building

For Google's San Francisco-based employees, one of the company's greatest perks is the Wi-Fi-enabled Bauer buses that pick up workers in the city and drive them to the company's Mountain View headquarters. B...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Fake Microsoft AntiSpyware Site Aims For Credit Card Numbers

First there was Fake Steve Jobs. Now there's a fake Microsoft AntiSpyware Center. In a post on McAfee's Avert Labs blog, security researcher Rahul Mohandas details the latest trend in social engineering and c...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Calls Rivals 'Pretenders'

Microsoft never has lost its hardball edge. In a discussion with Gartner analysts at Gartner's annual Symposium ITxpo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called his competitors "pretenders." Ballmer said Microsoft r...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Microsoft's Latest Word Exploit Was Made On A Mac

When Tuesday is patch day, Microsoft's monthly vulnerability fixing ritual, Wednesday almost certainly becomes exploit day. So it was yesterday, when Symantec security researchers reviewed a Microsoft Word do...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Apple Launches iPhone Web Apps Directory

Apple on Thursday launched an online directory of more than 200 Web applications built to run in the iPhone's Safari browser. The applications are organized in categories such as the most recent viewed, most ...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Google Adds YouTube To Global Mapping Service

Google on Thursday added YouTube videos to its desktop global mapping software, giving users the option of watching video shot at specific geographical locations. The new feature on Google Earth makes it poss...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Oracle Makes Offer To Buy BEA Systems For $6.66 Billion

NEW YORK, Oct 12 - Oracle Corp on Friday said it offered to buy BEA Systems Inc for about $6.66 billion, its latest effort to up the ante against Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O and Germany's SAP SAP.N in the fierce...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Oracle Offers BEA $6.7 Billion; A Hostile Takeover?

Oracle is bidding to take over BEA Systems, the No. 3 middleware supplier, for $6.7 billion. The announcement made public Friday has some of the earmarks of a hostile takeover, like Oracle's ultimately success...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Red Hat, Novell Sued Over Linux Patents

Less than two weeks after it hired a senior intellectual-property executive from Microsoft, a California-based firm has filed a patent-infringement suit against Red Hat and Novell, distributors of open-source ...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Microsoft Windows Live Gets Event Planning Tool

Targeting the market for tools that allow individuals planning events -- from birthday parties to business meetings -- to send invitations over the Web, Microsoft on Friday launched a new online service called...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

I-Mate's 'Jama' Smartphones Roll With Windows Mobile 6

In an apparent new launch this week, i-Mate introduced two smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 operating system: the Jama 101 and the Jama 201. Smartphone maker i-Mate's latest handset...