Google began ramping up its efforts to promote Google Voice application this week by making it available for BlackBerry and …
Hacker break-in of Twitter e-mail
A hacker made off with confidential Twitter documents after breaking into an employee's e-mail account, the company's co-founder confirmed. Security …
Azure enterprise licenses will be simple
Microsoft has not made clear how it will incorporate Windows Azure pricing into the long-term contracts it signs with its …
Microsoft working on quick-fix capability for IT patch tools
Under the dark cloud of recent zero-day attacks, Microsoft is quickly working to update its enterprise patching tools to incorporate …
Microsoft admits it tested SQL Server as store for Exchange 2010
Microsoft Corp acknowledged that it had “absolutely” considered replacing the maligned storage engine in its Exchange e-mail server software with …
Mainframe-to-Windows migrations eyed for small businesses
Micro Focus has hatched a platform enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to move Cobol-based business applications off of IBM mainframes …
Carrier Ethernet on the rise
Carrier capital spending (capex) may be down during the current economic downturn but Carrier Ethernet is bucking that trend. Service …
Microsoft details Windows Azure pricing, availability
Microsoft revealed pricing and more details about how it will sell its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure, making it free for …
Microsoft girds Office 2010 with free Web versions
Choosing to risk cannibalizing its own sales rather than let competitors such as Google Inc. eat away at them, Microsoft …
Microsoft girds Office 2010 with free Web versions
Choosing to risk cannibalizing its own sales rather than let competitors such as Google Inc. eat away at them, Microsoft …
Microsoft Office vs.Google Docs: A web apps showdown
The future may be the cloud, but it also may be Microsoft that ushers us into that realm of possibility …
Microsoft officially names Geneva project
Microsoft unveiled the names of the pieces that will make up its single sign-on platform that was formerly named Geneva. …
Calculating hidden storage costs
Cloud storage is priced like a utility. Over and over again, virtually all vendors repeat the same mantra: “Customers pay …
Services firms boost Microsoft’s SaaS
Microsoft Corp.'s late move into the hosted software business gained some headway this month when two outsourcers — Computer Sciences …
Android, Chrome OS differ over voice communications
As soon as Google Inc. announced it was working on the new Chrome operating system, questions arose over how the …
VMware offering ‘safe passage’ to Virtual Iron users
VMware is trying to exploit uncertainty among customers of Virtual Iron, the virtualization vendor recently acquired by Oracle Corp., with …
Symantec desktop security software boasts reputation analysis
Symantec is readying the 2010 editions of Norton Internet Security and Norton AntiVirus, adding to its flagship consumer software a …
F5, Blue Coat unveil WAN optimization upgrades
The last couple of weeks have seen a flurry of product announcements from WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors. Here …
Five slick search engines you should know about
With Microsoft's recent addition of Bing to the search landscape, the spotlight is again shining on who has the best …
HP unveils Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio
HP Technology Solutions Group (TSG) today launched the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio which it claims is designed to deliver …