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 Sun October 14, 2007

Lifetime TV Network Boosts Online Traffic With Chat

Lifetime Networks has partnered with social networking site Paltalk to become the latest media outlet to take advantage of chat technology. Lifetime announced Thursday that it will launch weekly question and ...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

BEA Scoffs At Oracle's $6.7 Billion Takeover Bid

Oracle is bidding to take over BEA Systems, the No. 2 middleware supplier, for $6.7 billion. But BEA appears determined to resist at least Oracle's opening move. It's board of directors scoffed at the bid on F...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Oracle Plans Patches To Fix 51 Security Issues Next Week

Oracle said Friday that it plans to release a critical patch update for its enterprise software next week. The Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2007 is scheduled for release Tuesday. Its 51 security f...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

U.S. Government Seeks To Deny The Internet To Its Enemies

Cyberspace may become a more active battlefield in the Bush administration's war on terrorism. The new National Strategy for Homeland Security, issued earlier this week by the White House, places a greater em...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Acacia Research, Linux Patent Adversary, Has Long Litigation History

Linux distributors were sued for the first time this week over their operating systems. But despite recent rhetoric, Microsoft wasn't the plaintiff. Instead, the suit against Red Hat and Linux came from a subs...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Rollout: How Much Is That VM In The Window?

If you're using VMware ESX extensively but haven't begun monitoring resource consumption and available capacity, you will lack valuable ammunition come budget time. Usage measurements can justify infrastructur...

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...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Lifetime TV Network Boosts Online Traffic With Chat

Lifetime Networks has partnered with social networking site Paltalk to become the latest media outlet to take advantage of chat technology. Lifetime announced Thursday that it will launch weekly question and ...