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 05, 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 Fri October 05, 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 ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Software AG Plunges Into SOA Management

Getting started with SOA is easy, but once an enterprise has launched hundreds or thousands of services, things get complicated fast. Software AG is addressing proliferating services with an SOA management pac...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Apple DRM Patent Contemplates Media Sharing

In February, Apple CEO Steve Jobs urged people to "[i]magine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats," saying that Apple would embrace the possibility "...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Microsoft Forms 'Interactivity' Alliance With Toshiba, Hollywood Studios

Microsoft is teaming up with some major Hollywood studios and its former Zune manufacturing partner Toshiba to launch a forum aimed at developing new, interactive content for games, DVDs, and other consumer pr...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

SAP To Kick Off Developers' Conference With Sun, IBM Partnership

SAP will announce Tuesday a partnership with Sun Microsystems and IBM that it says will make it easier to give users access to business systems while protecting companies' from compliance violations and other ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Microsoft Ready To Launch Digital Phone Systems

Microsoft on Tuesday said it is ready to ship to manufacturers software that will power a new line of digital phone systems for small businesses. The Microsoft Response Point phone systems, which will be offe...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Apple Boot Camp Beta Expires With Leopard

Apple has told Boot Camp beta users that the software license will expire with the release of the next version of the Mac OS X, so customers will need to upgrade to Leopard to continue receiving support for th...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

As gPhone Reports Crest, HTC Releases New Smartphone Slate

Saying it has sold more than 800,000 of its Touch smartphones in Europe and Asia, Taiwanese vendor HTC launched a new version of the device, the Touch Dual, in London on Monday. The Touch Dual adds a keyboard ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Microsoft Offers Licenses For Fake Windows XP Copies

In the latest sign that Microsoft expects to support its Windows XP operating system for the foreseeable future, the company on Tuesday introduced a new licensing program designed to let users of fake or pirat...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

BSA Extends $1 Million Reward To Catch Software Pirates

The Business Software Alliance is extending its $1 million reward program for people reporting software piracy. The Rewards Program, which initially kicked off in the fall of 2005, is set up to encourage peop...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Major League Baseball Signs Deal With Medialink

CHICAGO - Major League Baseball said Tuesday it will use a service provided by a joint venture of Medialink Worldwide and the Netherlands' Philips Electronics to track the use of its game broadcast footage ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Microsoft Swallows Jellyfish For Live Search

Microsoft on Monday said that it had acquired Jellyfish.com, a social shopping search service, for an undisclosed sum. "We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family -- we recently purchased a c...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Oracle Pushes Enterprise 2.0

Oracle is pushing to establish itself as a legit player in Enterprise 2.0. At a conference Tuesday, the company said that its strategy is to "fuse Enterprise 2.0 capabilities into Oracle's technologies." While...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Merging Wired And Wireless Technologies Will Generate Billions In Revenue

In the next five years, fixed-mobile convergence will generate more than $35 billion in revenue for service providers and hardware vendors, according to a new study from Insight Research. Fixed-mobile converg...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Tuxedo Software: An Old Dog Learning New SOA Tricks

The venerable Tuxedo transaction processing monitor is 24 years old. It's survived the decline of the mainframe, witnessed the rise of client/server computing, and is still working hard behind the scenes with ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Canada Wants To Become The Next India For U.S. Software Companies

Could Canada become the next India for American-based software companies outsourcing work? Not exactly. However, Canada is becoming an attractive option many American software developers are eyeing for their ...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Sued Over Competitive Bidding Patent

For the third time in about a month, Google has been sued for patent infringement. Last week, Performance Pricing filed a lawsuit against AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, charging the four companies with in...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

AT&T's Interwise Buy Could Be Its Ticket To Unified Communications

AT&T's planned acquisition of conferencing provider Interwise is expected to improve the carrier's IP networking offerings for business customers and may help it compete in the unified communications space wit...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

UPS Goes Paperless For Global Shipments And Returns

Shipping small packages across international borders has always been fraught with problems. Cumbersome paper invoices can slow shipments to a trickle. And then there's the hassle of what to do when a shipment ...