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 October 09, 2007

YouTube Service Hijacked By Spammers

Spammers are hijacking a service on YouTube to send out waves of e-mails that evade spam defenses by hiding under the video Web site's coattails. Security company Sophos warned users last week that spammers a...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

SAP's Business Objects Buy Could Trigger More Software Mergers

SAP's offer on Sunday to acquire Business Objects for $6.8 billion, or $59.35 per share, could help further consolidate the shrinking pool of vendors that provide software used by businesses to power their bac...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Woman Hit By File-Sharing Verdict Fights Back

The Minnesota woman ordered to pay $220,000 after being found guilty of illegally downloading copyrighted music is loudly voicing her own opinion about the case, including plans to appeal the decision. Jammie...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Microsoft Releases Windows XP SP3 For Testing

In yet another sign that Microsoft isn't planning a retirement party for its Windows XP operating system any time soon, the company has released a new service pack for the Windows Vista predecessor. Windows X...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Vivisimo Merges Web 2.0 Social Search With Enterprise Search

Vivisimo is merging Web 2.0 concepts like social search and networking with its latest enterprise search software release, Velocity 6.0, which the company unveiled Monday. The company said the new release wi...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Adobe Confirms Critical Bug Affecting Windows XP

Adobe has confirmed that a critical vulnerability affects users running Microsoft Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7. The company reported in an online security advisory that the code execution vulnerability ...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Applebee's Exec Preaches Data Mining For Business Decisions

Randall Parman, database architect at restaurant chain Applebee's International and head of Teradata's user group, opened Teradata's annual user conference in Las Vegas Monday with a warning to those who aren'...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Google And IBM Partner To Push Cloud Computing

Google and IBM on Monday announced an initiative to advance large-scale distributed computing by providing hardware, software, and services to universities. The two companies aim to reduce the cost of distrib...

updated Tue October 09, 2007

Blue Coat Battles Cybercrime With Anti-Phishing Technology

Blue Coat Systems is battling cybercrime by offering enterprises real-time anti-phishing protection. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based security company announced Monday that its Web filter appliance now is designed...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Facebook Privacy Settings Putting Users At Risk

A security company is urging Facebook to tighten its default privacy settings after a study showed that a large majority of users are offering up far too much personal information to keep them safe from cyberc...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Study: Companies Dive Into Web 2.0 Without Securing Risks

While the majority of enterprises are using Web 2.0 technology, they're not prepared to deal with the security risks that come along with it, according to a study released Wednesday. Forrester Research survey...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Microsoft's Revamped Zune Still No Match For Apple iPod

Microsoft unveiled its revamped Zune on Tuesday, introducing a smaller, sleeker device with a better screen and new wireless capabilities. In addition, the company launched Zune Social, an online community for...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Garmin's New Software Turns Smartphones Into GPS Devices

Garmin, a maker of navigation devices and applications, on Wednesday rolled out software that can turn a smartphone into a Garmin GPS device. Garmin Mobile XT pairs a smartphone's built-in GPS with Garmin's ...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

EU Opens In-Depth Probe Of IBM's Telelogic Buy

BRUSSELS, Oct 3 - The European Commission said on Wednesday it had opened an in-depth investigation of plans by IBM to buy Swedish business software company Telelogic for about 5.2 billion crowns ($798.6 mi...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Traffic Flow Application Helps After Minneapolis Bridge Disaster

After a Minneapolis bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River in August, software developers managed to create an application to reroute traffic within three days. When the Interstate 35 bridge collapsed Au...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Navteq Deal Pushes Nokia's Services Drive Into Overdrive

Nokia's $8.1 billion purchase of mapping data and location-based services provider Navteq, announced earlier this week, is the largest acquisition to date for the world's No. 1 handset maker. It also could mar...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Microsoft To Release .Net Source Code

First, Sun open sourced Java. Then, Adobe announced plans to open source its Flex software development kit. Now Microsoft is opening up the .Net Framework to developers, albeit in its own way. The company We...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

IBM Updates Its SOA-Enhanced Product Portfolio

IBM on Wednesday introduced upgrades of its various software products that ensure the integrity of business processes within service-oriented architectures. Among the updated products is the WebSphere Process...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Halo 3 Sales Top $300 Million In First Week

Microsoft said Thursday that its sci-fi video game Halo 3 posted sales of more than $300 million in its first week on the market. "Halo 3 is truly a cultural phenomenon," said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, in...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Apple Patches Year-Old Windows QuickTime Vulnerability

Apple has taken another swing at fixing a troublesome spate of QuickTime vulnerabilities. The company released an update for the Windows version of QuickTime media player on Wednesday afternoon to patch what ...