Google promised to pay Mozilla almost $300 million annually to keep its search engine as the default in Firefox, according …
Deal’s on
Pallavi Sharma speaks to the technology chief at Cobone.com to figure out what makes the group buying site tick. If …
Oracle buys RightNow for $1.5bn
Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about US$1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service …
Microsoft quarter shows continued growth
Microsoft kicked off its first quarter of fiscal 2012 with solid growth, reporting a 7% increase in revenue compared to …
SGI to launch Cloudera Hadoop package
High performance computer system vendor SGI plans to offer pre-built clusters running the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, the company …
Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced yesterday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS …
Samsung Galaxy SII
Launched in June of this year, global unit volumes have already crossed the 5 million mark. A hands-on feel on …
A turnaround that didn’t happen
As she approached her third anniversary as Yahoo’s CEO, Carol Bartz couldn’t overcome a recent string of missteps that apparently …
Microsoft blacklists all DigiNotar certificates
Microsoft yesterday blacklisted all DigiNotar certificates after seeing active attacks from at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by DigiNotar. …
CIA, Mossad, MI6 targeted by Iranian DigiNotar-hackers
After breaching the Dutch CA (Certification Authority) DigiNotar, Iranian hackers managed to sign forged certificates for the domains of spy …
Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad
The tally of digital certificates stolen from a Dutch company in July has exploded to more than 500, including ones …
RIM launches smartphone management for small businesses
Research In Motion (RIM) launched a free online service for small businesses to help them centrally manage BlackBerry smartphones in …
U.K government to shut down social media if riots resume
Scrambling to deter future violent rioting, the U.K. government is considering shutting down social networks such as Twitter and Facebook …
Microsoft adds Hadoop support to SQL Server, data warehouse
Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing …
Microsoft adds Hadoop support to SQL Server
Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing …
Black Hat SEO and social media threats on the rise: Sophos
IT security and data protection firm Sophos has published its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report. The report reveals that fake …
Hadoop growing but not replacing RDBMS in enterprises: Ventana Research
The growing need for companies to manage surging volumes of structured and unstructured data is continuing to propel enterprise use …
Oracle buys InQuira to boost Fusion CRM
Oracle is buying knowledge management vendor InQuira in order to improve the capabilities of its Fusion and Siebel CRM (customer …
Kootol Software sues Apple, Google among others
Another patent-holding company has set its sights on Apple and numerous other large companies, and even smaller developers like The …
IPv6 traffic plummets after global test day
The day after World IPv6 test Day, it looks as if the Internet 1.0 has been getting back to its IPv4-borne …