AMD introduced new processors and improved graphics capabilities as part of its latest laptop platform that could up the ante …
Mozilla releases Flash-checking security update
Mozilla is pushing out a new release of its flagship Firefox browser that fixes critical security vulnerabilities in the software …
Bill Gates dedicating Carnegie Mellon computer science center
Bill Gates will share words of wisdom on Sept. 22 at the opening ceremony for a computer science center bearing …
Springboard: IM the top collaboration tool among Asian firms
Instant messaging (IM) is the second most popular and widely used collaboration and communication tool in business enterprises across Asia …
Screens still growing on mini-notebooks and netbooks
Netbook sales keep growing, as do the sizes of their displays. Of the tiny laptops available today, eight out of …
IBM tool eases JavaScript development
Countering rivals Microsoft and Adobe Systems, IBM is offering a free tool to simplify development of JavaScript-based Web applications, featuring …
Intel shows off PCs, servers built on Lynnfield processors
Intel showed off a number of new computer systems and at least 40 new motherboards built by partners for new …
Firefox adds Flash plug-in update protection
Mozilla's next update for Firefox, slated to ship Wednesday, will check for outdated versions of Flash Player, a frequent target …
Thales nShield Connect offers enterprise-class key management
The Thales nShield Connect 6000 is one of their line of Hardware Security Modules (HSM), which combine FIPS 140-2 level-three …
Venafi key management software works smoothly with supported apps
Venafi Encryption Director was the easiest of the three products to deploy. There was no fiddling with server applications to …
Gmail outages could turn off enterprises
The latest widespread outage of Google Inc.'s popular Gmail application could dissuade some IT managers from letting workers use the …
Firefox adds Flash plug-in update protection
Mozilla's next update for Firefox, slated to ship Tuesday, will check for outdated versions of Flash Player, a frequent target …
Google-Sony deal signals new front in browser war
A year after Google debuted Chrome with a bang, the browser may have failed to meet expectations. But recent moves …
Head of Google China leaving to start new venture
The head of Google's China operations, a former Microsoft executive recruited to kick start Google's business in the most populous …
Red Hat defends its subscription license model for Linux
Anyone finding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscriptions a tough sell for management used to Microsoft's one-time license fee for …
LG system cuts costs by letting users share a PC
LG is demonstrating a software system at IFA that lets users share a PC to lower power consumption and cut …
Researchers find a new way to attack the cloud
Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products …
European Commission to investigate Oracle-Sun deal
The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems, citing “serious concerns” about …
Motorola broadens data capture portfolio
The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola has announced new advanced data capture solutions designed to improve operational efficiencies and …
VMware cloud initiative raises vendor lock-in concerns
VMware talks a good game about interoperability, but its cloud initiative threatens to introduce a type of vendor lock-in that …