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SAP, IBM Still Chummy After BI Acquisitions
Executives from IBM and SAP said the two companies won’t fall out even though they now compete head-on in the market for BI…
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With 100 Days to Go, Beijing Faces the Music
Welcome to Beijing.
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HP Brings Storage, Servers Into One Rack
To help IT departments prepare for the coming onslaught of data, HP on Tuesday introduced a platform that combines storage and…
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Broadband Group: Some P-to-P Blocking Reasonable
Broadband providers are engaging in reasonable network management when they slow their customers’ access to P-to-P…
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Mobile Players Vie for European UHF Spectrum
The European economy would grow by an additional €95 billion over the next 20 years if one quarter of the UHF band were…
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Hands on: Jolt 1.0
To save energy–and prolong the life of my displays–I have Mac OS X set up to sleep my displays after a few minutes of…
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OLPC Tries to Bridge Gap With Developer Community
A virtual uprising that broke out among developers questioning One Laptop Per Child’s commitment to open-source software has…
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Yahoo Presses Ahead With Panama Rollout in Emerging Markets
Yahoo plans to soon roll out its Panama search advertising platform in the few remaining markets in Asia and Latin America…
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Microsoft Releases XP SP3 After Delay
Microsoft Tuesday released the third service pack for Windows XP to the Web after last week delaying its scheduled release…
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In-flight Broadband Set to Return in 2009
High-speed Internet access will be returning to aircraft next year through a new service being offered by Panasonic.
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Opening up Psystar’s Open Computer
Because we think it’s informative to see how OS X performs on a computer that isn’t a Mac, Macworld ordered a Psystar Open…
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May’s Coolest Gadgets
If the new products we’ve seen in the last few weeks are anything to go by, we’re in for a great year gadget-wise.
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Microsoft Revamps Download Center Using Silverlight
Microsoft continues to eat its own dog food to promote the adoption of its Silverlight technology.
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Cisco Profit Falls on Acquisition Charge
Cisco Systems revenue rose more than 10 percent in the company’s fiscal third quarter, though its net income fell due to an…
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Google Puts Open-source Project Back up
Google has reinstated an open-source project just days after pulling it in response to a copyright-related takedown notice.
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YouTube Launches Site for India
Google’s video sharing subsidiary YouTube launched an Indian version of its site YouTube on Wednesday.
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Starbucks Free Wi-Fi Vanishes Into Thin Air
As a wise man once said, “Starbucks giveth and Starbucks taketh away.” Scant days after iPhone users reported finding free…
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SAP Sheds Light on New BPM Tools
SAP is developing new business process management (BPM) tools under the code name “Galaxy” and will first release them in the…
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Microsoft Won’t Pursue Other Partnerships, Says Gates
Microsoft won’t be pursuing tie-ups or takeovers to replace its failed Yahoo bid, Bill Gates said in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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Response Team Boosts Open Source Security
A new, volunteer computer emergency response team aims to be a clearinghouse of security information for open source projects.
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Hacker Marketplace to Help Build 0day Appliance
WabiSabiLabi, the company best known for building an online marketplace for security flaws, is getting into the hardware…
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Plattner: On-demand ERP Delay Has Silver Lining
Although SAP has slowed down the rollout of its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) offering Business ByDesign, that…
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Microsoft to Help Disabled Access Office Documents
Microsoft has released a software add-in to help those who have difficulty reading printed documents to turn Word documents…
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Trojan Adware Hiding in MP3s, McAfee Says
Adware pushers have found a new way to trick you into downloading their annoying products: fake MP3 files.
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France Télécom Waiting for Next-gen IPhone to Change Pricing
France Télécom will wait for Apple to update its iPhone before changing the existing model’s price — even though the high…
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European Commission Considers SMS Roaming Price Cap
Caps on the price of sending an SMS from a mobile phone while abroad came a step closer Wednesday, when the European…
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Digidesign Unveils Transfuser Virtual Instrument
Professional audio creation company Digidesign on Tuesday introduced a new virtual instrument called Transfuser.
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Sprint and Clearwire Seal $14.5 Billion WiMax Deal
UPDATE: Sprint Nextel and Clearwire will form a joint venture worth US$14.5 billion to deploy the first nationwide mobile WiMax…
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SAP Exec: No Plans for Additional On-demand ERP
It is unlikely that SAP will offer full-blown, on-demand versions of its Business One or All-in-One enterprise resource…
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OpenOffice 3.0 Beta Released
A beta version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been released for evaluation by the public.
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Zune and NBC Sitting in a Tree
Given the amount of time I spend tanning before my computer monitor, banging out one story or another, I have nothing but…
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