UC Market: Tiny Today, Tremendous Tomorrow?

What's all the fuss with unified communications? 06/23/2008

Nortel Teams Up Again, This Time with IBM

A UC story worth following 06/23/2008

Bloomberg Launches Windows Mobile App

Customers of Bloomberg LP's real-time market data who have long been receiving feeds on their BlackBerrys can now receive them on their Windows Mobile-based devices, thanks to a recently completed development effort. 06/20/2008

Tech Spending Hit by Subprime Mess

The subprime meltdown that has roiled the financial markets since last fall will negatively impact the amount large investment houses, banks and brokerages will spend on IT overall -- and on software development projects in particular -- in the coming years. 06/20/2008

New 11.0 openSuSE Linux OS Released

On Thursday, Version 11.0 GM of the openSuSE Linux-based operating system was publicly released. 06/20/2008

New Bluetooth Patch Fixes XP Security Hole

Microsoft reissues a "critical" patch relating to Bluetooth wireless technology that was released last week as part of its June update cycle. 06/19/2008

Vulnerability Found in New Firefox Browser

It took only five hours from the release of Firefox version 3.0 for a researcher to report a critical vulnerability in the open source browser. 06/19/2008

Legendary Reader Feedback

Redmond Remedies Patch-Blocking Problem

Microsoft Board Member Steps Down

First the U.S., Then Europe, Now China?

Intel 'Holding Back' USB 3.0 Spec, Says Nvidia

An Nvidia representative today confirmed the view that Intel is delaying release of the Universal Serial Bus 3.0 specification to chipmakers. 06/18/2008

HPC Server 2008 RC1 Coming This Month

At the International Supercomputing Conference being held this week in Germany, Microsoft announced that it will roll out the first release candidate (RC1) of its Windows HPC Server 2008 for high-performance computing in the last week of June. 06/18/2008

Firefox 3 Browser Released

The volunteer-led Mozilla project has released version 3 of the Firefox browser. 06/18/2008

Microsoft To Face China Antitrust Woes?

Just as Microsoft seems to be patching up antitrust relations with the U.S. government, a Chinese newspaper suggested today that the company could be subject to antitrust legal actions in China. 06/18/2008

Salesforce.com Releases Summer '08 Update

Robobak Provides Backup for SMBs

Dell Rolls Out New Storage Array

Europe Is a Microsoft Shop

Outsourcers Turn to Multisourcing To Reduce Risk

Outsourcing "megadeals" appear to be on the wane. According to market watcher Gartner Inc., the number of reported megadeals -- contracts of $1 billion or more awarded to a single vendor -- actually declined last year. Does this mean that outsourcing itself is on the way out? 06/17/2008

Microsoft Readies for Prime Time With IPTV Solutions

Microsoft yesterday kicked off the NXTcomm08 event by showcasing its IPTV telco and service provider offerings. 06/17/2008

Survey: Few Have Plans To Migrate to Vista in 2008

Computer Economics released a new report characterizing the adoption rate of Windows Vista by businesses as "slow." 06/17/2008

Swedes Deploy Dual-Boot 'Green' Supercomputer With IBM, Intel Chips

The High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N), a Swedish consortium of universities and research centers based out of Umea University, is installing a supercomputer that combines IBM Cell Broadband Engines and Power processors with quad-core Intel Xeon processors running both Windows and Linux in a dual-boot configuration. 06/17/2008

Mixed Reactions to IBM's Green Software Push

For over a year now, IBM Corp. has made "greening" a centerpiece of its marketing efforts, kicking off a $1 billion green IT investment last spring called "Project Big Green," touting mainframe-centric greening initiatives and, just recently, trumpeting a new "green" approach to software. 06/17/2008

Mailbag: Hyper-V Doubts

David's got some bones to pick. 06/17/2008

Unified Communications Takes Hosted Form

Microsoft To Keep an Eye on Open Source

Some Admins Blocked from Microsoft Patches

Microsoft Forms Health Services Alliance

Microsoft and 15 partner companies, including Unisys and EDS, announced a new working alliance intent on forging technology architecture for the heath and human services (HHS) market. 06/16/2008

Novell, Microsoft Partner on Server Virtualization, Server 2008 on SuSE

Novell announced last Wednesday that it has joined Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program. 06/16/2008

Microsoft Joins Open Source Census Group

Microsoft has joined the Open Source Census as a sponsor, according to an announcement issued by OpenLogic, which founded the group. 06/16/2008

Microsoft Patches Blocked for Some Admins

Microsoft works to correct issue that kept some administrators using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from downloading the latest security updates. 06/16/2008

Virtualization Review Mag Rolling Along

Hardware players take the spotlight in the latest issue. 06/16/2008

Hyper-V Poised for Greatness

According to Microsoft's VP, anyway; beta testers can now judge for themselves. 06/16/2008

Yoogle AdWords

Yahoo turns down one suitor for another. 06/16/2008

Majority of Data Breaches Go Unnoticed, Study Finds

Verizon Business reports that more than half of the data breaches on enterprise systems go undetected and are caused by general negligence and lax security. 06/13/2008

Cisco Warns of SNMP Vulnerability

Researchers have found a pair of vulnerabilities in version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol that could allow attackers to gather system data or even change network equipment configurations, according to an advisory issued by Cisco Systems earlier this week. 06/13/2008

RC1 for Hyper-V Now Available for Download

IT pros wanting to try out the latest Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology can now get the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version via Windows Update. 06/13/2008

Yahoo, Google Strike Advertising Deal

Just hours after announcing that talks with Microsoft had ended without a deal, Yahoo announced an advertising partnership with Google. 06/12/2008

Intel Denies Holding Back USB 3.0

Rumors that Intel is not releasing Universal Serial Bus 3.0 specification to its technology partners in a timely manner have prompted a rebuttal. 06/12/2008

Yahoo: Microsoft Talks Done, No Deal Coming

Yahoo today said its talks with Microsoft focusing on acquiring all or part of the company are officially over -- a position that Microsoft appears to be at least partially disputing. 06/12/2008

Alt-N Seeks Microsoft Channel Partners

Symantec Goes Virtual

Vista Bites

Glassdoor Reveals Salaries, Satisfaction Levels in Redmond

Microsoft Edges Further Into HPC

Microsoft pointed to gains in the high-performance computing (HPC) market as it readies the release of its HPC Server 2008 for later this year. 06/11/2008

EC Official Talks Open Standards, Raps Microsoft

A speech given yesterday by Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for competition, skewered Microsoft without mentioning the company by name. 06/11/2008

E-Mail Spam Linked to Economic Slowdown, Symantec Says

The rise in the amount of Spam being eaten by families who have fallen on hard times is commensurate with the rise in e-mail spam, Symantec revealed this week. 06/11/2008

Next-Gen Mac OS X 'Snow Leopard' Coming in 2009

At its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) Monday, Apple released preliminary details of "Snow Leopard," the forthcoming successor to Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") and the next major revision to the Mac operating system. 06/11/2008

Microsoft Gets Virtual at Tech-Ed