Symantec announced it has revived the Norton Utilities optimization and cleanup tools for Windows that it folded years ago into …
Windows 7 Will Not Sway XP Users
The chances of Windows 7 suddenly winning over Windows XP users in droves are slim to none. Windows 7 is …
Google extends Gmail to offline users
Google last week launched an updated version of its hosted Gmail e-mail service that lets users access their accounts without …
Yahoo’s Briefcase to close March 30
Yahoo's Briefcase online storage service, which soldiered on for almost 10 years with a distinctly Web 1.0 capacity of 30MB, …
Wi-Fi hotspot horrors
Laptops are the main business tool for most mobile workers, and connecting those devices to the Internet via free public …
‘Gears of War’ bug not SafeDisc DRM’s first
The anti-piracy technology that locked out players of the popular Gears of War game was also implicated in a 2007 …
Citrix slashing head count
Citrix plans to cut 10% of its staff, or about 460 employees, the company said after posting disappointing earnings this …
Flavors of Windows 7
Windows Me may not have had much going for it, but it has one claim to fame: It was the …
Start-up VMOps aims to ease cloud deployments
Building a cloud computing infrastructure can be a complicated endeavor, but stealth start-up VMOps hopes to provide a silver lining …
Lenovo buys a startup
Lenovo said Switchbox is developing “new consumer technologies,” but details about its projects are largely a mystery. Its development work …
Backup merger unites Barracuda, Yosemite
With the addition of software agents from Yosemite, Barracuda can offer incremental backups of applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server …
Google brings Gmail offline
Google rolled out a new wrinkle in its Gmail service: Offline e-mail for businesses using Google Apps and for consumer …
IE8 Focuses on Improved Security and Privacy
Microsoft's updated browser, Internet Explorer 8, promises an assortment of new features designed to help make Web browsing with IE …
Making big strides
Where is D-Link heading? The IP market continues to grow, and we are in the right industry. In the past …
HP readies for Cisco’s data center assault
HP ProCurve this week will unveil its first switches built specifically for data center applications, as well as a server …
Recession whacks IT earnings
IT investors on Thursday got hit with a tsunami of earnings reports for the quarter ending in December. Google's report …
NetApp CEO: Virtualization driving sluggish storage market
“The market is not robust, but it's not dead either,” he said in an interview. The economic downturn has changed …
AMD working on extra-low-power chip
Advance Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is adding a new, low-power Opteron processor to its Shanghai line roadmap and it plans …
Smart steps for corporate mobile devices
If you've ever let a stranger borrow your corporate smartphone, you may have just given him a gift of your …
New Yahoo CEO freezes employee salaries
With Carol Bartz just about a week into her new reign as the CEO of Yahoo, Inc. , she's already …