Microsoft has high hopes that a new speech-recognition application for the forthcoming Windows Mobile operating system will be attractive enough …
Sun’s revenue drops 20% ahead of Oracle buy
Sun Microsystems Inc. reported a sharp drop in revenue for its third fiscal quarter, as it battled uncertainty about its …
Google’s unveils search tool to help make sense of public data
Want to see how your area's unemployment rate stacks up against those in other locales around the country? Or would …
IBM to resell Brocade’s Foundry switches
Brocade has extended an OEM relationship with IBM to include its recently acquired Foundry switches in a deal that appears …
Verizon expands cloud backup service to global market
Verizon Communications Inc.'s business division today announced the global launch of its Verizon Remote Backup and Restore program, an expanded …
McAfee launches ‘online 911’ for cybercrime victims
McAfee has launched a new Web site designed to help cybercrime victims recover from hacker attacks. The company bills its …
Hitachi enters server, network monitoring business
Hitachi Data Systems today announced the release of three new software products to provide enhanced monitoring of business applications, virtualized …
Mozilla re-patches Firefox after regression bug pops up
Mozilla Corp. today rushed out a new version of Firefox to fix a flaw it introduced with the 12-patch security …
Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice.org’s independence
Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun …
Spammers seize on swine flu to pitch bogus meds
Spammers have seized on the growing interest in news of a possible swine flu epidemic to hawk fake pharmaceuticals, security …
Samsung unveils its first Google phone
Samsung Electronics Co. became the first major mobile phone maker to launch a smartphone based on Google Inc.'s Android software. …
Qualcomm to pay Broadcom $891M in patent settlement
Qualcomm Inc., the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, agreed to pay chip designer Broadcom Corp. $891 million to …
IE 8: Its Security Is Worth the Download
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 in March, and whether to install it is likely your biggest update decision right now. …
GE develops optical disc material to hold 500GB of data
GE Global Research, the technology development arm of General Electric Co., said today it has made a breakthrough in holographic …