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 Sat October 27, 2007

Forgot Your Password? Just Crack It

ElcomSoft on Monday said that it had filed to patent for a way to decrease the amount of time required to recover forgotten passwords, not to mention withheld passwords, by a factor of 25. The technique uses ...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Gmail Now Has IMAP Support

Gmail users can now use IMAP to synchronize e-mail on their iPhones and desktops. Matthew Glotzbach, head of products, Google Enterprise. (click for image gallery) Matthew Glotzbach, product ...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

IBM Buys Storage-Services Company NovusCG

IBM on Wednesday acquired storage-services company NovusCG, a move that boosts the company's strategy of becoming a larger supplier of high-growth, high-margin software and services. Financial terms were not d...

updated Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Symantec Profit Falls; Shares Tumble On Outlook

SAN FRANCISCO - Symantec Wednesday reported a 60 percent drop in quarterly profit and gave a weak outlook on concern that U.S. economic woes would hurt consumer sales of its Norton security software, sendin...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Google CEO Optimistic DoubleClick Deal Will Get Done

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday his company is working closely with regulators and that he was optimistic its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick will...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

VMware Posts Impressive Numbers In First Quarterly Report

VMware, the market leader in virtualization software, increased revenues 90% in its third quarter over the same period a year ago. It produced earnings per share of $.18 compared to $.06 per share a year ago, ...

updated Sat October 27, 2007

Online Gambling Firms Urge EU To Turn To U.S. Congress

BRUSSELS, Oct 24 - Online gambling firms want European Union trade chief Peter Mandelson to change tack over a controversial move by the United States to close its multi-billion dollar gambling market to fo...

updated Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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 Sat October 27, 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 Fri October 26, 2007

Microsoft Pledges Not To Sue Turbolinux Users

Microsoft said it will not pursue any legal action against Linux users who use a server distribution of the open source operating system offered by Turbolinux. The pledge is part of a "broad collaboration agr...