In order to bring the economics and flexibilities of the cloud to the data centre, Citrix at its user show …
Microsoft lays off 3,000 employees
Microsoft Corp. today laid off 3,000 workers, the second wave of a major reduction the company announced in January. And …
Microsoft to forbid VoIP, rival stores at mobile market
Voice-over-IP applications will be forbidden from Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store, along with programs that are larger than 10MB …
Microsoft: Windows 7 is faster on SSDs, with two caveats
Microsoft Corp. today gave a strong, though qualified, endorsement for running Windows 7 on PCs equipped with solid-state disk (SSD) …
CA tries to groom next generation of mainframers
CA Inc. has been working to lure a new generation of talent to the mainframe platform as part of an …
Microsoft’s Windows 7 release candidate goes public
The near-final version of Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, became available late Monday to the general public. Microsoft will …
Adobe promises patch for zero-day PDF bug by next Tuesday
Adobe has promised to patch the newest zero-day vulnerability in its popular Adobe Reader software no later than next Tuesday, …
McAfee reports huge drop in spam
Global e-mail spam volumes have dropped 20% for the first quarter this year compared with the same period last year, …
SAP-IBM’s Alloy application pushed to BlackBerry
BlackBerry users will one day be able to use Alloy, the application jointly developed by SAP and IBM that allows …
Microsoft delivers XP Mode add-on beta
As promised, Microsoft Corp. today launched the beta of “XP Mode,” the Windows 7 compatibility add-on that runs Windows XP …
Alcatel-Lucent losses grow as revenue shrinks
Alcatel-Lucent reported a 6.9% drop in first-quarter revenue compared to last year, while losses more than doubled. Revenue fell to …
As wireless monitoring device popularity grows, so do privacy worries
The wireless industry is abuzz with plans for expanding remote monitoring of just about any device over wireless networks. Examples …
NYSE to implement 100Gbps network
NYSE Euronext, the company that operates the New York Stock Exchange, will soon implement a 100Gbps data network with help …
Parabon launches grid-based DDoS attack tests
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks of the kind that crippled networks in Estonia two years ago are hard to …