Internet policymakers are forging ahead with a controversial plan to introduce hundreds of generic top-level domains — such as .nyc, …
Ingres benefits from Oracle-related angst
When the 250-store California supermarket chain Save Mart Supermarket began making plans to roll out a time and attendance tracking …
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 …
Lenovo slims down new ThinkPad T400s
Showing again that rugged business-oriented laptops can play the thin-and-light game, Lenovo Group revealed a slimmed-down ThinkPad that boasts a …
Emulation or Virtualization?
Emulation is what we do when we try to make one system behave like or imitate a different system. We …
Google warns of issues with its Outlook sync tool for Apps
After promising that people can use Outlook “seamlessly” with the Gmail component of its Apps suite, Google is toning down …
Sharepoint gets Notes 8.5 integration from Mainsoft
Mainsoft added support for Notes 8.5 to its software that integrates the collaboration platform with Microsoft’s increasingly popular SharePoint Server. …
Data center derby heats up
Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM …
Data center network brawl
Converged platforms that combine servers, storage and networking into a single system with common management tools are the future of …
Cisco says it's not eating its SAN young
Cisco says the dropoff in its FibreChannel SAN revenue and market share in Q1 is attributable to three factors: an …
Nortel customers upbeat but anxious
Nortel customers remain optimistic despite the company's precarious situation, officials of Nortel's largest enterprise user group said last week. Speaking …
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 …
Golden parachutes ready for top Sun execs
If Oracle Corp.'s acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. goes as planned, CEO Jonathan Schwartz will receive a severance package of …
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 …
Adobe patches 13 critical PDF bugs in first quarterly update
Adobe issued its first regularly-scheduled security updates on Tuesday, fixing at least 13 critical flaws reported by outside researchers and …
Building smarter enterprises
IBM Software Group has used the 2009 IMPACT conference to urge enterprises and partners to take advantage of the current …
Ethernet data center switch to take on Cisco Nexus
Infiniband vendor Voltaire took a big leap into the Ethernet data center switching arena with a core switch optimized for …
Could the worst be over?
While it is a wait and watch period for the next few months, the industry has perhaps moved beyond the …
IDC: Recession driving down storage spending
Hard times are driving large enterprises to patch holes in their storage architectures with systems designed for small and medium-sized …
Will Oracle kill the Java community?
That's the question on everyone's mind at this year's JavaOne developer conference, the last show before Oracle's planned US$7.4 billion …