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

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...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Apple Releases Fix For iMacs That Freeze Up

Apple has released software updates to fix the problem of the latest iMacs freezing up during normal use. The updates, released Thursday, are recommended for 20-inch and 24-inch models with 2.0 GHz and 2.4 GH...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Is CA Back On Track?

Systems management software company CA might finally be out of the woods financially. On Monday, the company beat Wall Street's expectations with second quarter earnings and increased guidance for fiscal 2008....

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Apple Allows Virtualization On 'Leopard' Server

Apple for the first time is allowing users of its server operating system to run multiple versions of the software on a single machine -- paving the way for Mac-based virtualization. According to the license ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

ACS Directors Resign, Company Says It's 'Pleased'

Outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services said late Friday that it's "pleased" that five independent members of its board of directors have resigned following a confrontation with founder and chairman Darwin Dea...

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. just turned 30 years old. And hardly anyone noticed. Nevertheless, in an industry in which change is a constant, VMS has few peers in its age br...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Microsoft's SOA Strategy Is Ambitious, But Half-Baked

Microsoft last week unveiled what will become known as its Oslo vision: a simpler, cheaper service-oriented architecture for Windows that can be implemented inside and outside the corporate firewall.Oslo is a ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Mac Servers In A Windows World?

If you don't belong to the cult of Mac, you might ignore OS X Server 10.5, code-named Leopard. That would be a shame, particularly for small and midsize enterprises, even all-Microsoft shops. Stop snickering....

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Microsoft Earnings Boosted By Windows Vista, Office, Halo

Microsoft on Thursday reported a 23% jump in profits, and a 27% boost in revenue in the company's first fiscal quarter, due in part to "robust demand" for Windows Vista and Office 2007, and a near doubling of ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Oracle Won't Budge Off Original BEA Offer; Bid Expires Sunday

Oracle president Charles Phillips termed BEA Systems' request for $21 a share Thursday "an impossibly high price," and stood by Oracle's first offer of $17 a share. In letters traded Thursday, BEA's board of...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Microsoft's Halo 3 Sparks 100% Jump In Xbox 360 Sales

What a difference a biologically enhanced super-soldier makes. Microsoft reported Thursday that sales of its Xbox 360 video game console jumped 100% in its fiscal first quarter, thanks to the debut of Halo 3. ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Vonage Settles Its Patent Infringement Litigation With Verizon

"Two down, one to go," is the battle cry at Vonage this weekend after the VoIP firm announced an agreement with Verizon Communications over their long-standing patent litigation. The two sides came to terms ...