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PostPath on Wednesday announced the release of PostPath Email Server 3.1, which offers small and medium-sized businesses an alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Email Server 3.1 is interoperable with the Exchange ecosystem as well as BlackBerry and ActiveSync devices. PostPath's e-mail and collaborati...

On Monday, some BlackBerry users experienced their second outage is less than a year. For three hours, many -- but not all -- users were unable to access their e-mail accounts using their handhelds. Exactly what caused the system failure is still unclear: Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion said...

HP released its first mid-level Unix-based blade server, which will allow companies to more cost-efficiently consolidate their legacy systems. The HP Integrity BL870c, which is the latest HP BladeSystem server, uses a specifically engineered Intel Itanium processor to power the its four-socket serve...

A strong backlash from technical users of Windows Vista has forced Microsoft to revise its general release dates for Vista Service Pack 1. Vista SP1 will be released to Windows Update and to the download center in the first five languages in mid-March, said Mike Nash from Microsoft's Windows Product...

Nokia unveiled a host of new smartphones Monday at the Mobile World Congress 2008 held in Barcelona, Spain. Among the handset maker's upcoming offerings is the N96, the follow-up to the phone maker's flagship N95 model. Styled as a multimedia computer, the N96 sports a slightly larger screen at 2.8 ...

A big bugaboo standing in the way of making m-commerce a bankable asset is about to be squashed. Until early this morning, enterprises had to crawl their way through hundreds of handset specs to develop mobile Web sites to fit each. Today they can hit the ground running. dotMobi has launched a low-t...

Androids March on Barcelona

Google's Android mobile phone platform has started to see the light of day. A handful of handset makers have been showing prototype mobile phones running Android at the GSMA Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain, this week. Android is heavily backed by Google, though it's actually being dev...

OPINION

Microsoft, Yahoo and the Big Web Land Grab

I've had a little time to think about the Yahoo/Microsoft merger, why this makes sense and what could go wrong. This thing actually should be one of the easiest mergers of its type, and there is actually a strange amount of affinity, often taken for granted, between these two firms that most seem to...

The battle for the hearts and minds of social networkers goes on. Facebook fired the latest shot Thursday with the launch of a Spanish-language version of its site. It plans to launch French and German versions by April. Chief rival MySpace, which is much larger than Facebook, already is available i...

TECH BLOG

The TSA Blog: Is The Man Finally Listening?

If you haven't already heard, the U.S. government is going digital. Exhibit A: President Bush submitted his 2009 budget proposal to Congress electronically, and he held up a tablet PC for the photogs to illustrate just how tech-savvy he is. Whoa! Slow down there, you tech-savvier-than-thou leader of...

Researchers have created a new knee brace device that can harvest energy normally dissipated or essentially wasted from the human body during walking. While it's not shocking that power can be generated this way, it may be surprising to hear how much electricity the device can produce: five watts, e...

Logitech has been known throughout the technology world for years as a leader in computer equipment. As pioneers in fields ranging from wireless mice to high-output digital speakers, Logitech has usually focused its attention to what matters -- quality at an affordable price point. The Logitech Harm...

The next generation of parents is set to embrace genetic testing of kids for diseases that may occur later in life, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. This is big news given that many medical professionals oppose the practice, and there is a movement in Cong...

Modu, a new cell phone manufacturer based in Israel, is developing a new set of modular components for cell phones, letting consumers add pieces and parts to a miniature core cell phone to enhance its functionality -- or even just its look and feel. Modu's business plan calls for three basic product...

In order to turn bigger profits from their armies of compromised computers, hackers this year will use a new tactic in targeting master boot records with viruses that plant rootkits on computers' hard drives, security experts warn. These infections activate during the boot sequence before the operat...


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