There is only one obvious question in Cisco's overture Tuesday that it might take on Microsoft and Google in the …
Microsoft’s Bing takes a nibble out of Google’s search share
Up and running for a month, Microsoft's Bing has upped the company's share of the U.S. search market by 1%, …
Virtualization, cloud computing pose new challenges, opportunities
Three years ago, Carnegie Mellon University opened the Data Center Observatory – an answer to the ever-rising operational costs in …
Google improves Flash search and indexing
Google has enhanced its search engine's capacity to index Adobe's Flash files, which are very popular on the Web but …
Bing helps Microsoft continue to gain steam in search market
Microsoft's Bing continues to gain steam. The week after Bing's official launch early this month, Microsoft's share of the search …
Google urged to beef up Gmail security
Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of internationally prominent …
Security group converges to fight Internet abuse
As cybercrime continues to proliferate on the Internet, one industry security group is hoping its work will help stem the …
HP designs new server for 'extreme' scale-out computing
Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new line of x86 servers for companies that operate massive computing facilities, where shaving a few …
Microsoft's Bing grabs early momentum in search race
Microsoft's Bing search engine is off to a hearty start, according to yet another study. The Bing offering, an update …
How much work can you do on a Smartphone?
Portable yet powerful, the laptop has become the machine of choice for the modern business user. But for anyone with …
Facebook gets $200M cash infusion
Facebook, whose dizzying growth in recent years has been rumored to put a growing strain on its finances, has sold …
JavaScript – the Web site performance killer, Google guru says
Nowadays, even regular Web surfers know some of the things to do when designing a Web site for fast performance. …
Groups rip secrecy over IP protection talks
The secrecy surrounding an anticounterfeiting trade agreement that's being negotiated by several countries, including the U.S., is heightening concerns about …
What Google knows about you
“Google knows more about you than your mother.” Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recently made …
Web 2.0 leaders struggle to maintain their top spots
The view from the top of the high-tech business world may be nice, but companies just need to look at …
New Sidekick will get Exchange support
Despite its heritage as a phone aimed at the youth market, the latest version of the Sidekick mobile device will …
Fiber cuts slash Silicon Valley’s Internet arteries
Cuts in fiber-optic lines early Thursday at two locations near Silicon Valley shut down two IBM facilities and affected an …
Analysis: Where did Sun go wrong?
Just before the crash of the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems Inc., then-CEO Scott McNealy …
Sun made colossal mistake on IBM’s offer, analysts say
With IBM/Sun negotiations reportedly at a standstill, a consensus seems to be emerging among industry analysts: Sun has made a …
Collapse of IBM/Sun deal could leave Sun without a suitor, analysts say
Sun Microsystems may find itself without any viable suitors if it does not come to terms with potential acquirer IBM, …