The future looked bright in September 2005 when eBay announced it was buying Internet telephony company Skype Technologies for $2.6 …
Google gets Gmail back on its feet after outage
After a nearly two-hour outage, Google Inc. is getting its Gmail e-mail service back up and running this evening. The …
Google to let Apps users try out Wave
Google will let some users of its Apps suite test-drive in the fall its Wave collaboration and communication tool, the …
IE tumbles, Firefox regains market share mojo
Last month, Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer posted its largest market share loss since November 2008, while Firefox reaped nearly all …
EMC to acquire legal discovery vendor Kazeon
EMC said it will buy Kazeon Systems, a company that develops products for collecting and analyzing electronic information for legal …
Cisco readying collaboration software platform
Cisco Systems is developing a collaboration software platform that will allow enterprises to combine social networking, presence, content and transactional …
Instant messaging speeds up data theft danger
One of the more sophisticated pieces of malware in circulation has been given an upgrade that lets cybercriminals act even …
VMware partners to offer Amazon-like compute services
VMware Inc. announced a new program that will allow its service-provider partners to offer pay-as-you go computing services similar to …
Microsoft discounts Windows 7 for small businesses
Mimicking the discounts it has been offering to consumers, Microsoft Corp.said that it will temporarily discount upgrades to Windows 7 …
Hitachi releases high-performance 500GB laptop hard drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced it's shipping the fifth generation of its 7200-rpm, 2.5-inch laptop hard disk drive that, …
New Windows Mobile phones due in October
Phones running Microsoft's newest software will hit shelves on Oct. 6, but don't expect the big lines and excitement that …
Parallels retools, renames Windows/Linux virtualization app
Parallels Inc. released a new version of its Windows/Linux desktop virtualization software, saying it should be able to run some …
Savvis unveils cloud-based service
Savvis will announce a next-generation cloud computing platform that it claims is the first fully virtualized private data center offering …
The ABCs of WAN optimization savings
WAN-optimization gear has evolved from one-trick point products – compression boxes, QoS appliances, TCP optimizers, caching devices – into equipment …