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Employees who regularly use company computers to surf the Web, sign on to business accounts for personal e-mail, make calls from company phones or use the corporate car to run errands run the risk of losing their jobs, according to a new survey released by The ePolicy Institute and the American Mana...

Google is working with homeless shelters in San Francisco to let them offer free phone numbers and voicemail boxes to their clients for life. The aim is to let shelters provide these facilities directly to their clients instead of requiring the homeless to register individually for a free phone numb...

A new free Web-based product, SyncWizard, aims to change the way people store and access their own personal data and files. SyncWizard scans PCs or Macs for the most valuable data and uploads it to a variety of Web-based storage sites, then makes it accessible via live, customized Web page. It's a p...

If the 2006 online video market was still in the traffic-building stage, 2007 marked the beginning of the monetization stage. This new media platform engages a prime audience group for marketers. Online publishers and their technology partners large and small were pressed hard in the last few years ...

IBM on Thursday unveiled a prototype green optical network technology that promises to enable the high-speed transmission of huge files with very little power consumption. By using light instead of wires to send information, the new technology could allow the transmission of 8 trillion bits per seco...

Some legal minds are getting together to see what can be done to make sure that social networking Web sites like MySpace are exclusively kids' space. Researchers at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society have been chosen to head up the Internet Safety Technical Task Force -- at...

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Opera's Mobile Browser Hits the Right Notes

If you are reading this article, chances are you own a pocket PC or Palm-based smartphone or PDA. Chances are also great that you are in desperate need for a mobile Web solution. Since the dawn of the Internet, transferring and receiving information has been the ultimate goal. PDAs and smartphones h...

Users of many Microsoft Windows Live services worldwide were hit by an outage on Tuesday that lasted most of the day before Microsoft managed to fix it. The issue affected the Windows Live ID log-in process and for the most part spared customers who were already logged in, Windows Live product manag...

HP launched a new virtual storage disk array targeted for midsized businesses Tuesday. The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array provides medium-sized organization users with a combination of features normally found in systems for enterprise-class businesses. The EVA4400 is a solution for bu...

Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008 in Los Angeles on Wednesday. With its new features and enhanced tools, Windows Server 2008 has enjoyed a better reception than Windows Vista and has been deployed by a number of companies in beta, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNe...

The function of IT is to support business, and every IT decision must be business-driven. So, what kind of business benefits can virtualization provide? It can increase server utilization; help cut costs; let users leverage the multi-core processors common in data centers; give applications mobility...

Yahoo has launched it own version of a social media Web site -- that is, one that publishes a selection of articles from a variety of online sources every day and gives users the chance to rank them. Buzz is very similar to such popular sites as Digg, Del.icio.us and Reddit. There are a few differen...

Perhaps like no other industry before it, the IT industry has come to thrive on continuous innovation coupled with rapid and widespread product introduction. In the competitive -- at times mad -- rush to be first or early to market key things are sometimes overlooked. When it comes to security, it i...

VMware announced Tuesday the upcoming availability of servers from a variety of manufacturers that will include a fully integrated preinstalled version of VMware's virtualization software. Within the next 60 days, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP and IBM will begin shipping servers with the VMware ESX 3i h...

Google is joining five other companies to lay a 6,200-mile undersea cable linking the U.S. and Japan. Its partners in the so-called Unity cable project are telecommunications providers Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI, Pacnet and SingTel. Construction, to cost about $300 million, will begin immed...


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