The view from the top of the high-tech business world may be nice, but companies just need to look at …
Threading to boost Firefox on multi-core chips
Mozilla's developers have announced plans to add application multi-threading to Firefox over the next two years, a feature already partially …
Nvidia looks to mobile chips for growth
Graphics hardware vendor Nvidia saw its revenue drop during the first quarter of 2010 but is pinning its hopes on …
CA tries to groom next generation of mainframers
CA Inc. has been working to lure a new generation of talent to the mainframe platform as part of an …
McAfee reports huge drop in spam
Global e-mail spam volumes have dropped 20% for the first quarter this year compared with the same period last year, …
As wireless monitoring device popularity grows, so do privacy worries
The wireless industry is abuzz with plans for expanding remote monitoring of just about any device over wireless networks. Examples …
RIM to bind BlackBerry to Cisco phones
Research In Motion Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc. are teaming up to let enterprises integrate their BlackBerries with Cisco IP …
Google to push Gmail to BlackBerrys
Google has unveiled a new service that will push Gmail and calendar items to the native client software on BlackBerry …
Emulex rejects Broadcom takeover bid
Network components maker Emulex Corp. rejected an unsolicited buyout bid by chip maker Broadcom Corp., saying the all-cash offer undervalued …
Open source cloud platform is commercialized by its creators
The creators of Eucalyptus, an open source platform for building private clouds, have launched a company to sell products based …
Mobile-phone vendors focus on software as sales drop
Mobile-phone sales continue to be hurt by the faltering economy, so vendors are increasingly looking to software and services to …
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 …
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 …
Samsung unveils its first Google phone
Samsung Electronics Co. became the first major mobile phone maker to launch a smartphone based on Google Inc.'s Android software. …
AMD launches energy-efficient Shanghai Opteron EE
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker AMD Inc. on Wednesday — the sixth anniversary of the birth of its Opteron processor — …
Juniper’s Q1 revenue falls, earnings plummet
Juniper Networks blamed a drop-off in new network build-outs for a first quarter plunge in revenue and earnings, though said …
The downfall of Sun Microsystems
Oracle's surprising $7.4 billion deal to purchase Sun this week gives Larry Ellison and crew a big stake in the …
SaaS it up
The present prevalent economic downturn has slowly started impacting telco’s cost and ability to serve customers. This growing problem may …
VMware to embed RSA security into vSphere 4
VMware and RSA announced a strategic plan to embed RSA’s data-loss prevention (DLP) and encryption technologies into VMware’s new vSphere …
EMC, Symantec kick-off security barrage
With the RSA Conference cranking up, EMC’s security division RSA and Symantec rolled out security product releases. Symantec also said …