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Last December, Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer group announced that Internet Explorer 8, the next iteration of its Web browser, would be standards compliant, interoperable and backward compatible when it's released in the second half of 2008. The group announced that IE8 has rendered correctly...
Continuing its departure from a largely hardware-focused history, Siemens Communications on Monday announced a new software-only unified communications server. The OpenScape Unified Communications Server can operate in virtually any existing IT or telephony environment, Siemens said, and is designed...
With data security threats becoming more ubiquitous, the market for products that simplify the process of managing that information appears to be growing. New York-based GridApp Systems is hoping to take a step in that direction with Clarity 4.5 database automation software that it is launching Mond...
I've been talking about heroes for several weeks now, most recently the folks at HP who are overcoming the company's internal bureaucracy to turn what had been a problem unit -- its PC unit -- into the most powerful PC entity in the world. But inside HP another group of unsung heroes are those that ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Adobe Systems on Monday released Adobe Integrated Runtime, a software tool that allows users to seamlessly interact with interactive content even when they aren't connected to the Internet. Adobe Air's runtime environment allows developers with access to API kits from companies to create customized ...
Last week, HP turned in a financial report that seemed to provide a strong counterpoint to the view that the world was heading into a recession, or at least that tech was going to be sacrificed to that recession. However, this took me back to IBM and what stopped its turnaround in the '90s and wheth...
Microsoft will soon launch its Xbox Live Community Arcade service, which will allow anyone to create -- and distribute -- console games for the Xbox system. The move, announced at the Game Developers Conference, opens the doors for aspiring game creators to compete with big-name studios. To particip...
What is virtualization anyway? The short answer is, virtualization is separating the physical layer from the logical layer -- the operating systems and applications. You can virtualize pretty much any aspect of IT. "There is no universal definition of virtualization as it means many things to many p...
Microsoft on Monday announced a new student program Monday dubbed "DreamSpark." The new program will give college and high school students around the world access to the software giant's development applications at no charge. DreamSpark is now available to millions of college students in Belgium, Ch...
Kace announced Monday what it called the first virtual systems management appliances to run natively within the VMware infrastructure. The Virtual Kbox appliances offer users a software product that runs on the user's existing computer hardware. Earlier versions of the Kbox appliance required the in...
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