Looking to accelerate its footprint as a provider of cloud and enterprise managed services, Verizon Communications Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire Terremark Worldwide Inc. for $1.4 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/28/2011
A demonstration of an attack against an Apple iPhone at the Black Hat Technical Security DC 2011 Conference in Arlington, Va., demonstrated that software in many GSM-based smart phones contains vulnerabilities that could open the phones to remote exploits.
- By William Jackson
- 01/21/2011
Scammers have set their sights on tablets and smartphones, and away from Windows desktops, in response to rising consumer demand for mobile devices.
Analysts are thinking out loud in the wake of Microsoft's Windows ARM announcement last week.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night with lots of positive stats, along with a few gizmos.
Microsoft announced today that it is integrating its next-generation Windows client operating system on system-on-a-chip hardware and will use the ARM architecture.
Cisco has taken two significant steps in space-based communications, with the first-ever upgrade of an IP router aboard a commercial satellite while in orbit, and the first voice over IP call made from a satellite that did not require any ground-based infrastructure to route the call.
- By Dan Rowinski
- 12/06/2010
It's December, and that means one thing for us pundits: It's time for our annual look-back and look-ahead columns.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 12/01/2010
Mary Jo Foley looks at Microsoft's back-and-forth decisions on whether its software and other offerings should be locked in to the Windows ecosphere or be available to everyone.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 11/02/2010
Microsoft kicked off its 2010 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today by offering developers worldwide an update on its emerging cloud computing, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer 9 development platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/28/2010
Ray Ozzie, renown for jumpstarting Microsoft's move to the Internet cloud, described a new vision for the company in a "post-PC world."
Hewlett-Packard's long-awaited slate PC is now available but with a different target audience than originally planned.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/25/2010
Global rollout includes nine new phones to be available in 30 countries.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/11/2010
Could there be fewer versions of Windows? More importantly, does it matter?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 10/01/2010
Microsoft announced today that it plans to realign its Windows Embedded Business group to better connect with the company's management and security product lines.
A fierce mobile OS competition will start leveling the field in the next four years, the research firm predicts.
On Thursday, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that, in developing its Android mobile operating system, the Internet search giant infringed on seven patents associated with the Java Platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/13/2010
Google and Verizon today issued a statement on U.S. broadband policy, describing an approach that would permit differentiated services.
Tablet handheld computers will begin to outsell netbooks in two years in the U.S. market, according to Forrester Research.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/26/2010
Microsoft's partners should get onboard with Microsoft's business shift to the cloud or be left behind.