LexisNexis acknowledged that criminals used its information retrieval service for more than three years to gather data that was used …
IBM eyes the future of virtualization
The future of technology always has roots in the past. And the past is indeed long in the case of …
Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable?
A range of companies with wireless LANs are discovering that 50% to 90% or more of Ethernet ports now go …
EMC tries to block executive from joining HP
EMC Corp. is trying to prevent top storage executive David Donatelli from joining rival Hewlett-Packard Co., filing a lawsuit to …
Microsoft aligning management, clouds
Microsoft this week shared the latest on its ambitious cloud computing management, though customers and analysts say they still have …
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance
It's time we faced it: The Year of the Linux Desktop, long foretold, isn't coming. Year after year, breathless pundits …
Cautious optimism for the future
In the last month alone, we have had Mark Templeton (Citrix), David DeWalt (McAfee) and John Chen (Sybase) in this …
Microsoft doctors AutoRun in Windows 7 to stymie Conficker
Prompted by the spread of the Conficker worm through infected USB drives, Microsoft Corp. will unveil changes in next week's …
Top EMC storage exec jumps ship for HP
Top EMC storage executive David Donatelli has abruptly left the company to join rival Hewlett-Packard Co. as executive vice president …
Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management
Microsoft opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of …
Nortel looking to exit LG venture: report
Nortel is reportedly looking to sell off its stake in a joint venture with Korean telecom company LG in an …
On the offense
Showtime Arabia is the leading Pay TV network in the Middle East and North Africa, with the significant subscriber base …
HP unveils low-cost business laptops
Hewlett-Packard launched a new line of low-cost business notebooks called the ProBook s-series that merge business functionality with consumer goodies …
Intel: Spend money (on new PCs) to save money
Hurt by enterprises putting off PC purchases, Intel Corp. presented research purporting to show that large companies that buy new …
New zero-day exploit targets Adobe Reader
Adobe Systems Inc. today confirmed that it's investigating reports that its popular PDF viewing software, Adobe Reader, contains a critical …
Windows Mobile to get voice command capability
Microsoft has high hopes that a new speech-recognition application for the forthcoming Windows Mobile operating system will be attractive enough …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Group proposes cloud management standard
The Distributed Management Task Force announced it had formed a group to tackle management and interoperability issues that will arise …