Taiwanese smartphone maker High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) lowered its 2009 revenue forecast due to slower than expected sales of …
Bing was tipping point in Microsoft-Yahoo deal
The successful launch of Microsoft's revamped search engine, Bing, was likely the event that tipped the scales in favor of …
Twitter breach revives security issues with cloud computing
Security and privacy issues over cloud computing are not very different from those surrounding any sort of IT outsourcing and …
Microsoft admits it tested SQL Server as store for Exchange 2010
Microsoft Corp acknowledged that it had “absolutely” considered replacing the maligned storage engine in its Exchange e-mail server software with …
Android, Chrome OS differ over voice communications
As soon as Google Inc. announced it was working on the new Chrome operating system, questions arose over how the …
Microsoft may have known about critical IE bug for months
The vulnerability that sent Microsoft scrambling and is being used by hackers now to attack Internet Explorer (IE) users may …
Microsoft confirms attacks against IE6, IE7
For the second time in six weeks, Microsoft confirmed that hackers are exploiting an unpatched bug in DirectX, this time …
FTC opens all out assault on economic cyber-scammers
The Federal Trade Commission announced a wide-ranging attack on cyber-vultures looking to feast on the current moribund economic situation. Dubbed …
Java development critical to Oracle Fusion strategy
For developers, Oracle's Fusion Middleware 11g rollout on Wednesday emphasizes Java technologies, particularly the company's JDeveloper IDE, along with concepts …
Smartphone OS smackdown
Two and a half years ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone and said that its software was five years …
VC puts money in open source management software
Open source management applications continue to flourish in the face of a difficult economy. And as many products mature to …
New server chips don't deliver: Facebook's tech chief
The latest generations of server processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices don't deliver the promised gains in performance, according …
Twitter's protest over Outlook's rendering of HTML e-mails
Showing again the power of Twitter for quick social organizing, Microsoft was forced to defend itself against complaints that its …
Jacky?s Electronics experiences 40% growth in Netbook demand
Jacky’s Electronics, the UAE’s leading multi-electronics retailer, has seen a 40 % increase in demand for Netbooks for the first six …
'68-degree data centers becoming a thing of the past'
Cooling a data center to 68 degrees may be going out of style, APC power and cooling expert Jim Simonelli …
5 cool cloud computing research projects
Next week's HotCloud conference on cloud computing in San Diego will boast a slew of fresh research into this hottest …
ARM: Android needs more work before it will sing on netbooks
Echoing comments by other industry experts, an ARM Holdings plc executive said that “more work” is needed to make Google …
Apple picks N.C. for $1B data center
Apple will spend $1 billion building a major data center in North Carolina, the state's governor announced after signing a …
Never mind the netbook, here comes the smartbook
If you still blanche at the term “netbook” for being an ungainly piece of vendor-speak, then prepare to be nauseated …
HP snubs Moblin, rolls out Mi Linux-Atom netbook
In a pre-emptive strike against the expected onslaught of ARM-based netbooks running Google Inc.'s Android operating system, Hewlett-Packard Co. on …