Yahoo will close its Yahoo 360 social-networking site in July, something it originally planned to do in early 2008 and …
Google Wave: A new kind of mega-application
Google Wave, an upcoming Web application that mixes old technologies like e-mail, IM and online documents in a unified, socially-oriented …
90 percent of e-mail is spam, Symantec says
Spammers seem to be working a little bit harder these days, according to Symantec, which reported that unsolicited e-mail made …
Twitter hit with phishing attacks
Twitter users who thought friends were directing them to a “funny blog” Thursday ended up experiencing something completely different: a …
Yahoo shifts gears on mobile app
Smartphone browsers are good enough to deliver Yahoo Mobile, so the search provider has killed off an on-device software version …
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 …
15 great uses for GPS on the iPhone
Travelers used to need a guidebook, map, local newspaper, and much more just to cover the basics of getting around …
HP Launches MediaSmart Server LX195
Hewlett-Packard unveiled its latest Windows Home Server device, the MediaSmart LX195. This tapered model is slimmer and more graceful-looking than …
Seven burning security questions
There's no shortage of burning questions about IT security these days, some sparked by nasty threats, others by economic concerns …
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 …
Palm’s webOS lives up to hype, developers say
Underneath the sleek exterior, the multi-touch display and the sliding keyboard of the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone is the real …
Feds join Twitter revolution
Twitter is taking flight in unlikely skies: the U.S. federal government. From NASA to the General Services Administration, more federal …
Palm Pre: First impressions
Ever since Apple changed the game for mobile devices with the iPhone back in 2007, every major device manufacturer has …
Advanced uses of unified communication apps shine
The Avaya Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. opening keynote addresses at VoiceCon Orlando focused on the potential of unified communications, …
Cloud computing vendors converge on standard definition, goals
When “cloud computing” became the buzz-phrase du jour in IT sometime in the past year or two, you could probably …
Slacker databases break all the old rules
So you've got some data to store. In the past, the answer was simple: Hook up an official database, pour …
Google Apps missing enterprise social-networking revolution
By now, many collaboration software providers consider it a must to have an enterprise social-networking component in their suites. But …
Salesforce integrates Service Cloud with Twitter
Salesforce.com is working to integrate its Service Cloud customer-service platform with the popular messaging service Twitter, the company announced Monday. …
Microsoft: IE8 faster than Firefox, Chrome
In a report released Wednesday, Microsoft spelled out how it tests browsers in-house, and again stressed that it doesn't buy …
Mobile browsers bring new security headaches
The new generation of mobile Web browsers is going to introduce for enterprise IT departments a rash of security challenges. …