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Microsoft's Office 2010 , currently in public beta, is set to be released next June, according to TechSpot . Six editions of the productivity software are expected to be offered to customers, inclu... More >
Finnish mobile giant Nokia has entered a partnership with chip maker Infineon to create LTE chips. The collaboration will ensure that Nokia's 4G modems will be compatible with Infineon's transceiver ... More >
A road map reportedly illustrating Intel's 2010 plans has been leaked on a Japanese Web site. It shows low-power versions of the Core i5-750 and i7-860 will be offered with clock speeds of 2.4GHz and... More >
Dell has made a customized version of Google's Chrome operating system for its Mini 10V netbooks. The company warns that its version of Google's Chrome OS is pre-beta and very unstable , reports ... More >
Polycom and BT Group announced a three-year partnership that the companies say will accelerate the growth of unified conferencing systems within enterprises. The announcement comes on the heels of C... More >
Yesterday, Google unveiled an early version of it Chrome OS along with providing an outline on the Chrome OS project. Lance Ulanoff, writing for PC Magazine , provides a list of 11 things you n... More >
Slowly and steadily, in-flight Wi-Fi is coming to the friendly skies. Air Canada announced it has begun experimenting with a new system on some flights from Montreal and Toronto to Los Angeles, Ci... More >
Microsoft officially released its Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition at its Professional Developers Conference 2009. The SDK is available for free for anyone who wants to de... More >
HP has released a new tool designed to simplify the backup and recovery of data from laptops. HP Data Protector Notebook Extension , designed to work in conjunction with HP's Data Protector server, ... More >
Google has unveiled an early version of its Chrome OS at a press event at its headquarters today. Sundar Pichai, Google vice president of product management, says that while the company is about a ye... More >
Last month, Finland declared broadband access a right to all citizens by July 2010. Spain is following suit by mandating some of its telecommunications companies make high-speed Internet service aff... More >
At a press event in London yesterday, Toshiba announced its plans to enter the high-capacity enterprise 3.5-inch hard-disk drive market . The development comes on the heels of the completion of Tosh... More >
In conjunction with the public beta release of Office 2010 , LinkedIn announced a partnership with Microsoft in which LinkedIn contact information can be integrated with contacts in Outlook. ... More >
At its Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced that it has put Office 2010 into a public beta . The beta is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions and each includes tweaked versions... More >
At the annual PDC conference yesterday, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie announced that the company's Windows Azure cloud computing platform will transition from preview to full product... More >
Mike Vizard over at our CTO Edge site discusses a free service from Apparent Networks that sets out to allay fears businesses have regarding the network performance of the wide area networks that... More >
Google plans to unveil more details about its Chrome OS tomorrow, says ChannelWeb . The company is expected to deliver information on its progress thus far and when its operating system will offic... More >
Unfortunately for ISPs, its difficult for them to get a good idea of who is consuming what type of content on their networks. Xangati hopes to help with this problem. Our CTO Edge site rep... More >
Kontiki is looking to position itself as the YouTube of the enterprise with its latest offering. The Kontiki VideoCenter is an enterprise video portal that enables users to manage videos, comment o... More >
Elastra, a provider of application infrastructure automation software, announced the availability of Elastra Cloud Server (ECS) 2.0 Enterprise Edition , which lets enterprises build public-private c... More >
HP is updating its client automation software to support not only thin and rich clients, but physical and virtual clients as well. According to our CTO Edge site, HP Client Automation 7.8 allows ... More >
Platform Computing, which makes software for cluster, grid and cloud management, has launched its Platform Application Center , which enables users of high-performance computing to easily submit and... More >
The WSO2 launched the WSO2 Cloud Platform yesterday. According to the press release, published on dBusinessNews , the platform, which extends SOA into cloud computing , features the company's Cloud... More >
It's a good time to be an airport Wi-Fi advertiser, according to a new study released by JiWire, a San Francisco-based mobile advertising company. JiWire found that more than 50 percent of airport W... More >
Twitter plans to revamp its suggested users list , which links new Twitter users with a pool of around 500 public figures they may want to follow, due to some partisan controvery, says WebProNews .... More >
Adobe Systems has released beta versions of Adobe Air 2 and Flash Player 10.1 . Both betas provide greater mobile device support and also support hardware-based H.264 video decoding. Air 2 and Flash... More >
Intel promises a new version of its Xeon processor that will be specifically tailored for high-performance computing. The platform is scheduled for release during the first half of 2010, along with t... More >
IBM is making use of its Cognos acquisition to offer the IBM Smart Analytics Cloud . Our CTO Edge site reports that the BI application service will allow customers: to roll out an implementation o... More >
SpringCM has released the latest version of its SaaS enterprise content-management platform. SpringCM 5.4's upgrades aim at making the new release easier for users to share applications and distribut... More >
The Internet Governance Forum , a multi-stakeholder dialogue on public policy regarding Internet governance issues, kicked off Sunday in Egypt. While items like Internet security, cloud computing an... More >
The Top500 Organization has crowned Oak Ridge National Laboratory's AMD-powered "Jaguar" system the world's top supercomputer. The upgraded Cray XT5 consists of six-core AMD Opteron processors that... More >
YouTube, the Google-owned online video sharing Web site, says it will begin supporting video capture of up to 1080p, a resolution level used in high-definition televisions, next week. Videos already ... More >
On the heels of announcing new features to its Bing search engine , Microsoft has removed the beta tag and officially launched Bing in the UK. Despite being made official, the UK version of Bing lac... More >
Online marketing firm eMarketer projects that the number of subscribers accessing social-networking sites from their mobile devices will grow to 607.5 million, representing 43 percent of the world'... More >
The Cray CX1-iWS , introduced Thursday, is a high-performance computing system that combines a workstation with a computing cluster to give users a little extra oompf at their desk. Cray's new syste... More >
Google's new Web protocol, code-named SPDY, is designed to make browsing faster and more efficient. Still in its early stages of development, the application-layer protocol loaded the top 25 Web page... More >
Google Chrome OS , a Web-centric platform for notebooks and netbooks, is tipped to be arriving sometime in the next seven days. The report comes from TechCrunch , which is basing its proclamation on... More >
In an update to a previous 2009 femtocell forecast, ABI Research has scaled down its initial estimates for the femtocell category . The revision is due largely to the slower-than-expected adoption o... More >
A mailing list discussion seems to reveal that Google plans to release a beta version of its Chrome browser for Macs in December . According to CNET News , a beta of Chrome 4.0 is available now f... More >
Fusion , the code name for the CPU/GPU integration at AMD, will hit the market in early 2011, according to the company. AMD plans to have sample versions in the hands of its partner companies by late... More >
Microsoft recently added new features and has enlisted Wolfram Alpha to enhance its Bing search engine . Meanwhile, reigning search giant Google plans perk up its search engine as well with an injec... More >
Microsoft has added new features to its Bing search engine, changing the way search results are displayed. More information is being added to Bing's hovering feature , including a preview thumbnail ... More >
Google has announced its own open source programming lanaugage called Go . According to Google, "Go combines the development speed of working in a language like Python with the performance and safet... More >
Coverity has released version 5 of its namesake code-scanning tool that allows developers to map all the downstream effects a change in code will have on the entire application, reports Mike Vizard ... More >
Windows 7 continues to ascend in its infancy. New information from Net Applications indicates that Windows 7 has surpassed 4 percent of PC access to the Web last weekend , The Wall Street Journal ... More >
Mobile computing in the enterprise has created a real business need for syncrhonization services. Startup Syncplicity is looking to capitalize on that need with the introduction of a namesake service... More >
According to this press release , Union Bankshares Corp. of Virginia has chosen CoreTrac's ResourceOne to track sales opportunities, develop marketing campaigns and enhance customer service. The com... More >
Google will provide some holiday travelers a nice gift as they make their way through airport terminals across the country. Google has bought out Web service at 47 airports through Jan. 15 and will... More >
Informatica is releasing the ninth iteration of its namesake data-integration software. Informatica 9, which comes with data-quality tools, a data-exchange capability, information lifecycle managemen... More >
You can tell Twitter exactly what you are doing and it will tell LinkedIn as well, thanks to a new partnership between the two companies, BusinessWeek reports. LinkedIn's status feature now syncs w... More >
VMware is directly challenging Citrix with its release Monday of VMware View 4.0, designed to improve users experience on virtualized desktops, writes Mike Vizard at CTO Edge . The company s... More >
HP is targeting midmarket enterprises with a slew of new offerings. The products, which range from servers to server and router offerings, can be purchased separately, but HP is heavily suggesting th... More >
As of right now, Best Buy Reward Zone members can pre-order the Nokia Booklet 3G , which will be available to the general public beginning Nov. 15. The Atom-powered netbook will sell for $299.99 w... More >
At the launch of the HTC HD2 , CEO Peter Chou told reporters that the company was " still carefully looking into [the netbook] category and how it could be a part of that ." Chou noted that nothing ... More >
Microsoft used its TechEd event in Berlin to release Exchange 2010, the latest version of its e-mail and calendar software. The company is touting that the total cost of ownership associated with Ex... More >
According to new data from market research firm IDC, worldwide CPU shipments grew by 23 percent in the third quarter, compared with the second quarter. According to SlashGear , this was largely d... More >
Intel plans to make a fast transition to Pine Trail , the successor to its Atom platform for netbooks and nettops, according to X-bit labs . Intel will formally disclose further details and launch ... More >
Cisco plans to announce a barrage of collaboration tools at its Cisco Collaboration Summit today. The launch will add 60 products across Cisco's collaboration and unified communications portfolio . ... More >
Mozilla announced plans to release the latest version of its Thunderbird e-mail system this month. According to the company, around 2,000 specific improvments have been made to its Thunderbird 3 so... More >
Google recently landed a big fish when the city of Los Angeles chose Google Apps for its e-mail and Internet services. While it still has a ways to go to catch Microsoft Office, more businesses ar... More >
Windows 7 has gotten off to a strong start in sales and market share, according to Daily Tech . According to NPD Group, boxed unit sales for Windows 7 during the first week of availability were u... More >
A day after Google unveiled a dashboard to help quell user's privacy concerns , a team of Catalan researchers have announced that they have developed a protocol that distorts the user profile gener... More >
Google has released several of its JavaScript application development tools as open source software, reports PocketGamer.biz . Google product manager Amit Agarwal explains the move: By enabling an... More >
Dell has officially launched the Adamo XPS , which the company is touting as the world's thinnest. At 0.4 of an inch in thickness, the Adamo weighs in at just 3.2 pounds. The laptop consists of a 13... More >
Google launched a new search engine service designed specifically for e-commerce sites. Google Commerce Search is essentially a shopping cart solution for online retailers , says Search Engine Land... More >
A day after Cisco, EMC and VMware announced the formation of their Virtual Computing Environment coalition and Vblock Infrastructure Package , HP has fired back. HP has outlined its own plan for a ... More >
This week, Google rolled out the latest beta iteration of its Chrome Web browser. Chrome 4.0 boasts increased speed, bookmark syncrhonization and is available for download from Google's beta channel... More >
PayPal, an eBay-owned company, has launched PayPal X, an open API that allows third parties to add the online payment system to their platforms. This means that users will no longer have to be forwa... More >
Cisco, EMC and VMware expanded their partnership with the formation of the Virtual Computing Environment coalition. It's a move that elevates Cisco to the level of data center powerhouses like of HP ... More >
Yahoo has donated its Traffic Server software to the Apache Software Foundation as open source and will launch an open source version of its Traffic Server next Monday, says bigmouthmedia . Yahoo ... More >
According to Web-monitoring firm Net Applications' latest data, Google's Chrome is the fastest-growing browser in the market . Chrome's share increased to 3.6 percent from 3.4 percent from September... More >
Sprint is now selling the Dell Mini 10 netbook with built-in 3G on a two-year contract for $199, which includes a $100 mail-in rebate, according to InformationWeek . The company is looking to capi... More >
Unisys announced a new private cloud offering called Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution , which will be available next month. According to PCWorld.com , companies will be able to set up their pri... More >
Riverbed Technology announced upcoming enhancements to its mobile WAN optimization solution today. The improvements are geared toward increasing the productivity of mobile workers, be they on the roa... More >
A couple of months after releasing an alpha version and after a delay , Mozilla released its first official beta for its upcoming Firefox 3.6 browser. The final release is expected before t... More >
The launch of Windows 7 saw Microsoft's new operating system nab 3.48 percent market share by the end of last month, a surge of 40 percent, according to Net Applications. The jump in share represen... More >
Microsoft and Samsung announced plans to jointly promote the green IT benefits of their combined product offerings. The green collaboration effort will encourage users to purchase more environmentall... More >
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