Skype, the Internet telephony provider, urged regulators in Europe to intervene to ensure that users aren't blocked from using their …
Will new top-level domains promote cybersquatting?
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is hosting two meetings this week – one in New York …
Latest Taiwanese smartphone highlights industry trend
A much anticipated 3G smartphone from Gigabyte Communications finally launched last week in Taiwan, the slim GSmart S1200 handset with …
British hacker keeps fighting extradition to U.S.
A British hacker who has been fighting extradition to the United States for seven years made an eleventh-hour appeal to …
Mozilla upgrades Jetpack browser booster
Jetpack, Mozilla Labs' open source technology for building functional add-ins to personalize the Firefox browser, has been fitted with more …
Consumers in the Cloud
John Chunta had spent four and a half years writing his doctoral dissertation when, two weeks before its expected completion, …
Intel is working with Google on Chrome OS
The world's largest chip maker is working with Google on the Chrome operating system and has been privy to the …
Lead generation on Lenovo's channel agenda
Despite the global economic downturn having impacted IT hardware and software sales in 2009, technology vendor Lenovo has taken this …
Gigabit Ethernet goes to war
The US Navy continued to ramp up network power this week by signing Boeing to a five-year, $42.9 million to …
Web threats soars in Threatscape Report by Fortinet
Fortinet announced that its June 2009 Threatscape Report showed dominance and significant growth in Web threat traffic, marked by increased …
Cisco’s new-market ambitions extend into orbit
At its user conference in San Francisco last week, Cisco Systems boasted about the 30 new businesses it's developing. One …
Android platform gets native development capabilities
Google moved to boost its Android mobile device software platform this week by offering developers a kit that enables them …
Google to launch open-source Chrome OS this year
Google is developing an open-source operating system targeted at Internet-centric computers such as netbooks and will release it later this …
NetApp to review counteroffer for Data Domain
In light of a new buyout offer for Data Domain Inc. by EMC Corp., NetApp Inc. said today it plans …
NetApp’s buy of Data Domain moves closer, even as EMC raises offer to $2.1B
NetApp has cleared a regulatory hurdle in its attempt to acquire storage vendor Data Domain, but rival EMC is still …
Cloud interoperability remains wispy, but progress being made
Cloud computing is supposed to make IT more flexible, efficient and easier to manage. But the cloud model threatens to …
Focus Softnet opens new HQ at TECOM
Focus Softnet, the leading software development company, today announced the opening of its new international corporate headquarters at Grosvenor Business …
Rising demand for DDR3 DRAM in laptops, servers
Demand for the next generation DRAM chip, DDR3 (double data rate, third generation), has spiked recently as systems makers turn …
China will still require Green Dam Web filter program
China has not lifted its requirement that an Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country, …
Cisco CTO reasserts video’s value for work, home
Cisco Systems CTO Padmasree Warrior stressed the importance of video and collaboration technologies to the networking giant, as well as …