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Starting Oct. 1, Comcast will impose a 250-gigabyte cap on the amount of data subscribers can upload or download each month, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Washington Post. ... More >
It's the most basic fear for users of cloud services: Losing your data. An engineer for UK-based XCalibre, in "tidying up" before upgrading to address capacity issues, deleted one of the main... More >
A security researcher says it's not hard to retrieve a user's browsing history despite the much-ballyhooed InPrivate Browsing feature in Internet Explorer 8, according to ITworld.com . T... More >
The Federal Aviation Administration says a corrupt file brought down its flight plan IT network Tuesday, reports eWEEK . The problem at its Atlanta facility soon caused its backup facilit... More >
Nortel hopes to keep remote work more secure with a USB drive preloaded with VPN client software . According to InfoWorld , the drive is part of the Nortel Secure Portable Office, which offe... More >
Dell has come out with four low-cost computers designed for India, China and other emerging markets, reports The Associated Press in a story on Newsvine.com. The two notebook and two deskt... More >
Ubuntu users running versions ranging from 6.06 to version 8.04 are urged to update their system with a patch for the operating system's Linux kernel, reports ZDNet . Ubuntu administrators s... More >
Hundreds of flights were delayed Tuesday after a software malfunction at an Atlanta-area facility that processes flight plan information, reports InformationWeek . A backup facility at Sal... More >
No one was really surprised when Apple filed suit against Mac clone maker Psystar alleging software license violations as well as copyright and trademark infringement. So should anyone be surprised... More >
The Mozilla Foundation claims Firefox 3.1 will boost the speed of Web applications such as Gmail, making them almost three times faster than the previous version, reports PC Pro . A new fe... More >
Intuit has made its Web version of QuickBooks available for the iPhone and BlackBerry in what it calls early "concept releases," reports AppleInsider . It encourages customers are add to ongoing ... More >
The tiny South Pacific nation of Niue is claiming the crown of being the first nation in the world to give laptop computers to all its schoolchildren, reports Agence France Presse in a story on IOL... More >
Despite all the reports that Comcast plans to slow some traffic up to 20 minutes, the company said it has made no final decisions about the best way to manage network traffic, according to an IDG... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google and Verizon Communications are closing in on a wide-ranging partnership. The deal would make Google the default search provider on Verizon products and gr... More >
Late last month, we reported that Via's Nano jumped all over Intel's Atom chip in performance reviews. This week at the Intel Developer Forum, the company unveiled the latest act for its new... More >
While some in the IT world may have snickered at Dell's failed attempt to trademark the term "cloud computing," the Round Rock, Texas,-based company could have the next chortle. Despite few ... More >
The trend toward airlines taking Internet service to the skies continues as American Airlines begins offering Internet access Wednesday on some of its longer, nonstop flights. The service wi... More >
IBM plans to spend $300 million to equip 13 data centers around the world that will offer cloud-based business-continuity services , even in the event of power outages, natural disasters or politic... More >
As expected, Microsoft has eased up on licensing rules that have prevented shifting of server software from one physical server to another, reports News.com 's Ina Fried. The rules limiting... More >
Digg officially has competition from Yahoo's Buzz . The Internet company made its content recommendation service open to the public last night. Since it's initial launch in February, the ser... More >
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which hopes to have an Energy Star rating system in place for servers by the end of the year, moved a step closer to that goal with the release of its seco... More >
A recent survey by the exo.performance.network shows that business are taking advantage of the Windows XP loophole, reports InfoWorld . When Microsoft announced it would stop selling XP on J... More >
Yesterday we reported on the launch of what Fujitsu Siemens claims is the world's first zero-watt monitor . The product uses technology that triggers the power supply to disconnect when the monitor ... More >
IBM is adding to its list of top supercomputers with a mammoth machine for scientists at the University of Toronto and its associated research hospitals, according to a Reuters article on interne... More >
A survey conducted by the Communications Workers of America found that U.S. broadband speeds have only improved incrementally over the past year. The report was gathered from data based on 230,000 ... More >
Lenovo is set to announce its latest mobile workstation, the ThinkPad W700 . Dubbed "the beast," according to vnunet.com , the release features a 17-inch display, Intel's Core 2 Extreme Quad... More >
Google quickly sorted out issues affecting its Gmail service yesterday afternoon. Around 2 p.m. Pacific Time, users of the e-mail service experienced trouble in trying to access their accounts after ... More >
Server virtualization solution provider Virtual Iron has released version 4.4 of its virtual machine management system, also called Virtual Iron. The newest iteration of the software include... More >
Research conducted on behalf of Storage Expo indicates that disaster recovery is the top data storage challenge for organizations. According to the survey, 83 percent of companies said imple... More >
Greenpeace has issued its list of what it considers to be the most eco-friendly companies , and now Web site MetaEfficient has provided a list of the greenest desktops and laptops . Green... More >
A laptop used in the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program in San Francisco has been found in the locked office , though not in the same place, from which it supp... More >
Google is introducing an upgraded version of its Google Search Appliance today. The pizza-sized box aids employees of companies and government organizations with a Web-style search for finding office... More >
Advanced Data Centers ' McClellan Park data center has received platinum pre-certification from the U.S. Green Building Council . The Sacramento, Calif.-based facility, expected to open at th... More >
Delta Air Lines announced Tuesday that it plans to offer broadband wireless Internet access on its entire domestic fleet by the middle of 2009. The Associated Press reports in a story on News... More >
Last week we reported that notebook shipments are expected to double in 2009 . Now another major vendor is getting into the ultra-mobile market. Lenovo introduced its IdeaPad S10 yesterday.... More >
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee has expanded its inquiry into targeted advertising , according to an Associated Press story on Newsvine.com. On Friday, it sent letters to more ... More >
We knew laptops could be searched at U.S. borders even without any suspicion of wrongdoing. A federal court upheld such customs procedures in April. So the border search policies of the U.S.... More >
Intel announced on Thursday that it would supply Facebook with Xeon 5400 chips and programming tools to power its servers. According to PCWorld.com , Intel's Nick Knupffer says the company's ... More >
Google announced plans to be more transparent with its users about how its popular search engine generates its results on its official blog yesterday. The company will roll out a new feature... More >
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