Mobile-phone companies and aid agencies have talked for years about deploying feature phones, coupled with basic text information services about …
State Street cuts IT staffers, shifts work to IBM, Wipro
State Street is laying off 530 IT workers and transferring another 320 to IBM or Wipro Technologies, part of a …
Wolfram makes data interactive
Wolfram Research, the maker of the popular Mathematica computational software, has released a new platform for visualising and interacting with …
Subway changes its menu, adds SaaS
Subway is a fast-food franchise operation with some 35,000 restaurants worldwide. Like many big enterprises, it expected to host a …
Yahoo revenue drops as display ad business slows
Yahoo’s total revenue took a steep dive in the second quarter as it struggled in display advertising, a core market …
Adobe, EchoSign face patent infringement suit
Adobe Systems and EchoSign, the electronic signatures company it acquired Monday, were sued yesterday by RPost, another electronic signature services …
Oracle upgrades VirtualBox for enterprise use
Oracle has updated its open source VirtualBox virtualisation software to make it more suitable for widescale enterprise deployments, the company …
Visa, MasterCard and AmEx join Google Wallet competitor
Isis, the mobile-payments joint venture that includes three U.S. national mobile operators, said that Visa, MasterCard and American Express have …
Joomla expands beyond content management
With the release of version 1.7, Joomla has been redesigned to support jobs beyond its typical duties of Web content …
Lion to ship today on the Mac App Store, Apple releases Migration Assistant update for Snow Leopard
The cat’s out of the bag: During Apple’s third-quarter financial earnings call Tuesday, CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced that Lion would …
HP launches agile ALM tool for project intelligence
HP with its Application Lifecycle Intelligence product introduced Tuesday offers visibility into what is happening in heterogenous environments across the …
“Anonymous” arrests tied to PayPal DDoS attacks, FBI says
The FBI said this afternoon that it had arrested a total of 14 individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous …
ITC says it won’t review Apple-Kodak patent decision
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has terminated an investigation into a complaint by Apple that Eastman Kodak infringed on …
Asia Pacific traders prefer open source: Red Hat
Some of the busiest stock exchanges in the region have shown a preference for open source software as indicated by …