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 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 Sun October 28, 2007

Apple Launches iPhone Resource Center For Developers

Want to develop applications for the iPhone? Apple has launched an iPhone developer center for people just like you. The iPhone Dev Center, introduced Wednesday, is a new section of Apple's Developer Connecti...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Vonage Vulnerable To Eavesdropping Hackers

While Vonage defends itself against patent lawsuits from the likes of AT&T, the pioneering VoIP company also faces new risks from hackers. Sipera Systems, a VoIP security company, said on Tuesday that users o...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

BEA Counters Oracle With $21 Per Share Demand

BEA Systems on Thursday upped the ante to $21 per share in response to Oracle's bid to take it over. Oracle on Oct. 9 offered $17, or $6.7 billion for the company. At $21 a share, BEA is saying it's worth $8.2...

updated Sun October 28, 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 Sun October 28, 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 Sun October 28, 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 Sun October 28, 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 ...

updated Sun October 28, 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 aficion...

updated Sun October 28, 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 Sun October 28, 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 Sun October 28, 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 Sun October 28, 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 Sun October 28, 2007

XenSource Founder Outlines Virtualization's Road Map At Interop

XenSource, which this summer was acquired by Citrix Systems for $500 million, shared its vision for the future of virtualization at the Wednesday morning keynote of the Interop show in New York City. ...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Google's Glotzbach Evangelizes 'Culture Of Collaboration' At Interop

It's obvious that size isn't as important as it used to be, and bigger no longer means better, but not everyone in the enterprise and IT knows how to compete in a world where speed has become everything. ...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

'Faceberry' Mashes Up BlackBerry, Facebook

Mashing up the world's premier smartphone for mobile professionals with the most popular social networking site on the Web, Research in Motion Wednesday launched a version of Facebook customized for BlackBerry...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

NASA Coordinates With Google For Real-Time Wildfire Imaging

NASA will deploy an unmanned airplane to help in the battle to contain wildfires raging through Southern California. NASA announced Wednesday that the Ikhana would take off from Dryden Flight Research Center ...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

With Apps In Forefront, Google Cranks Up Enterprise Sales

Google is making a serious effort to put its enterprise products in front of its search and advertisement businesses these days, executives said Wednesday at Interop New York. Matthew Glotzbach, product manag...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

HP Dukes It Out With IBM, CA, BMC On Services Management

Hewlett-Packard last week climbed into a ring already filled with heavyweight contenders to announce it is supplying business services management. BMC Software, CA and IBM are already have the gloves on and ar...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Microsoft To Take $240 Million Minority Stake In Facebook

Microsoft on Wednesday said it has signed an agreement to sell advertisements on Facebook's international sites, beating rival Google for the potentially lucrative deal that includes a $240 million equity inve...