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 30, 2007

Apple Stores Gird For Friday Leopard Launch

Apple is pulling out all the stops for the Friday launch of its new Leopard operating system. Apple Stores around the country will close from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, then reopen until 10 pm to welcome tech aficiona...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Private Firms Complete $8.3 Billion Purchase Of Avaya

Private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG Capital on Friday completed the acquisition of IP telephony provider Avaya in a transaction valued at about $8.3 billion. Under the merger agreement, which Avaya adop...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Predicting The Future Of Communications In Boston

IT decision makers are facing something of a dilemma these days: Many advanced communications developments have been adopted, but companies and consumers don't necessarily know what to do with them. A host of...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Apple's Leopard Fanfare Anticlimactic To P2P Users

Apple officially launches its new Leopard operating system Friday. But the first major release of the Mac OS in nearly two and a half years has been the hottest download for months on peer-to-peer networks, ri...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Novell Lays Off 250 U.S. Workers

BOSTON - Business software maker Novell laid off 250 workers in the United States as part of an ongoing restructuring program to slash costs, company spokesman Bruce Lowry said Friday. Many of the jobs wil...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Citrix Puts XenSource To Work For Desktop Virtualization

Citrix Systems has started to reveal plans for its $500 million acquisition of virtualization software supplier XenSource, laying out the first two products it will base on the Xen hypervisor. On the desktop, ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Startup Of The Week: Aveksa Brings Discipline To Data Access

Data breaches and insider threats -- what's a company to do? Rigorous enforcement of data access policies is part of the answer. Aveksa's software lets IT managers establish data access privileges and manage w...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Oracle $6.7 Billion Bid For BEA Expires

BOSTON, Oct 28 - Oracle Corp withdrew a $6.7 billion bid for business software maker BEA Systems Inc on Sunday, setting the stage for a proxy battle between activist investor Carl Icahn and the BEA board. ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Apple Posts Fix For Leopard 'Blue Screen Of Death'

Apple has posted a fix on its Web site for a serious problem that causes its Macintosh computers to seize up when users attempt to upgrade to the company's new Leopard operating system. "It may be necessary t...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Net Gambling Rules An Unfair Burden On U.S. Banks, Group Complains

Proposed rules to prevent Internet gambling would place a high burden on U.S. financial institutions, according to an analysis published by a pro-online gaming group. The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Ini...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Oracle Looking For BEA Stockholder Action?

Despite passing a crucial deadline this weekend, Oracle's bid for BEA Systems may not be completely null, just shifting tactics. BEA's Board of Directors allowed Oracle's $17 per share bid expire 5 p.m. Sunda...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Skypephone Unveiled; No PC Needed To Make Calls

Skype has introduced a mobile phone that will enable callers to dispense with their computers and make free calls to other Skype users as they move about nine countries, including the U.K. Skype, a unit of eBa...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Microsoft Acquires Hospital IT Software From GCS

Continuing its push into systems and software that promise to modernize the provisioning of health care, Microsoft said Monday that it has acquired a number of assets from Global Care Solutions -- a Bangkok-ba...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Microsoft Says Sorry (Again) For Unauthorized Installs

For the second time in as many months, Microsoft is apologizing for installing software on customers' desktops through an automated program without their authorization. IT managers who subscribe to Microsoft...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

NBC, News Corp. Threaten Apple With Hulu

NBC and News Corp. on Monday launched in beta an online video service that offers ad-supported video and feature films, a model that undercuts the buying of TV shows and movies through services like Apple iTun...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

JPMorgan Xign Adds Electronic Procure-To-Pay Services

JPMorgan Xign, which provides on-demand electronic global settlement services for supply chain management, has expanded its offering. The new Procure-to-Pay services are an extension of JPMorgan Xign's existi...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Apple's Leopard Hacked To Run On A PC

Before Apple's new Leopard operating system for Macintosh computers was officially released on Friday, hackers had figured out how to load Leopard onto a PC. On Thursday morning, a member of the OSx86 Scene F...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Apple Sets Two-iPhone Limit At Stores

Apple has set a limit of two iPhones per person at its stores and is no longer accepting cash, in an attempt to stretch supplies and discourage unauthorized reselling of the smartphone. The new policy, starte...

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...