One of the most heated battles among technology companies was waged this year between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. For …
As DDoS attacks go, this one's a dud
With all due respect to the affected holiday shoppers in Northern California, yesterday’s distributed denial-of-service attack on Amazon, Wal-Mart, and …
10 big cloud trends for 2010
Cloud computing is clearly worming its way into the enterprise, especially as a testing and development environment and as a …
EMC upgrades backup and recovery software
Only a few wisps of storage news this week from EMC, Virtual Instruments and start-ups Gridstore and Nasuni. EMC announced …
Palm Ares developer tool set moves to beta stage
Palm’s Project Ares, a browser-based development tool set for Palm webOS applications, has moved to a public beta stage, a …
Apple Tablet coming in January?
After months of rumors, we still know very little about Apple’s tablet device — but that could change very soon. …
Forrester: Google Android smartphones to take 10% of market in 2010
Android phones will make significant headway in the smartphone market and 4G service providers will zero in on apps in …
What's next for MPLS?
Multiprotocol Label Switching has been without a doubt one of the most successful technologies of the past decade. The advantages …
Five big questions about cloud computing
In a largely downbeat year, I couldn’t help but delight in Larry Ellison’s over-the-top takedown of cloud computing last September. …
Subscriptions boost Red Hat revenue
Open-source enterprise software vendor Red Hat reported fiscal third-quarter revenue up 18 percent from the same quarter last year. Total …
High Windows 7 satisfaction spurs corporate IT spending
Windows 7, just two months on the market, is accelerating the pace of corporate computer buying, market research firm ChangeWave …
China blames online games for drugs, murder, teen pregnancy
China’s state news channel has blamed hugely popular online games for problems including drug addiction, teen pregnancy and even murder …
5 must-have IT management technologies for 2010
As more companies expand virtualization deployments and consider cloud computing, the average IT environment will grow ever more complex. For …
Hackers hit OpenX ad server in Adobe attack
Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web …