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T-Mobile’s new myTouch Android phone won’t come with keyboard

The myTouch 3G with Google will become available to T-Mobile customers at the end of July for $199 with a two-year contract

By Nancy Gohring

Jun 22, 2009 3 mins

Better screen next up for the iPhone?

The iPhone's screen has remained the same since its 2007 launch while the rest of the cellular industry has moved forward

By Martyn Williams

Jun 22, 2009 4 mins

Google improves Flash search and indexing

Improvements will benefit webmasters and designers who have struggled to have the Flash portions of their sites indexed and made searchable

By Juan Carlos Perez

Jun 22, 2009 2 mins

Nortel accepts Nokia Siemens $650M bid for wireless assets

Companies enter 'stalking horse' agreement; other telecom vendors, including Ericsson and Huawei, will also get a chance to bid

By Mikael Ricknäs

Jun 22, 2009 3 mins

Security Technology Industry

Could Opera Unite be a botmaster’s best friend?

Cybercriminals are always looking to hack Web servers, and Opera puts one on every PC

By Robert McMillan

Jun 22, 2009 4 mins

Enterprise 2.0 vendors abound, but what about buyers?

The market for enterprise-class social networking and collaboration won't really take off until stronger use cases emerge, observers say

By Chris Kanaracus

Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

FCC to probe exclusive mobile handset deals

Acting FCC Chairman Copps opens inquiry into harm caused to consumers by exclusive deals between mobile carriers and handset makers

By Grant Gross

By Peter Sayer, Agam Shah

Update: Apple fans flock to buy iPhone 3G S

The latest iPhone, an incremental upgrade to last year's model, lures crowds on its launch date

Jun 19, 2009 4 mins

IBM services get supercomputers up and running faster

IBM is offering new services that include installation of supercomputers, training, and porting of applications to high-performance computing systems

High-Performance Computing IaaS

Intel’s new chip naming conventions even more confusing

Some users are upset at Intel's strategy to rename the tags attached to Core chips

RIM posts rare drop in BlackBerry subscriber growth

RIM may be facing increased competition from rival devices such as Apple's iPhone and new Android smartphones

By Dan Nystedt

Jun 19, 2009 2 mins

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

June 19, 2009: Iranian protests hit microblogs, animal cloners go to the dogs

By Dan Tynan

Jun 19, 2009 1 min

Data Management

The Palm Pre is out. So where’s the SDK?

Access to app dev kit for Palm's iPhone rival still is limited, leaving apps developers out in the cold

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Jun 18, 2009 2 mins

Weighing the pros/cons of desktop virtualization

While server virtualization provides immediately obvious benefits, desktop virtualization is a much trickier matter that often has lower ROI

By Denise Dubie

Jun 18, 2009 8 mins

Senators challenge AT&T’s exclusive iPhone deal

During a committee hearing, U.S. senators argued that exclusive phone deals may harm innovation and limit choice for some consumers

By Nancy Gohring

Jun 18, 2009 5 mins

AT&T Technology Industry

Yahoo adds tools to bolster search results

SearchMonkey feature will let site owners enhance entries for product, news, and other pages

By Stephen Lawson

Jun 18, 2009 3 mins

Microsoft Office Software Development

Lotus Symphony now reads Office 2007 documents

Update could ease a key worry for those considering dropping Microsoft Office for IBM's year-old free productivity suite

By Eric Lai

Jun 18, 2009 2 mins

Microsoft halting .Net link to Oracle databases

Users are directed to third parties for ADO.Net provider technology

Jun 18, 2009 2 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Microsoft backtracks, extends XP availability to 2011

After being hammered over its downgrade plan, Microsoft gives OEMs more time to sell XP PCs

By Gregg Keizer

Jun 18, 2009 4 mins

Sun’s Rock chip doomed from start

A troubled and costly development and not Oracle are responsible for Rock's reported death, analysts say

Jun 17, 2009 4 mins

Hitachi helps storage shops reclaim capacity

Updated software for its storage arrays can find unused blocks of previously allocated space and make them available again

By Stephen Lawson

Jun 17, 2009 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Debate over Apple’s threat to disable iTunes sync with Palm Pre heats up

Some Pre owners understand Apple's point, but overzealous protection of iTunes could backfire for the company

By Matt Hamblen

Jun 17, 2009 4 mins

OASIS making it easier to use standards without fee worries

The Non-Assertion Covenant for technical committees will hold that participants writing a standard cannot demand royalties or exercise license rights against users or implementers of that standard

Security Small and Medium Business Software Development

Windows 7 UAC feature still vulnerable

Citing a Microsoft document, blogger Long Zheng said the company won't fix UAC, which has a flaw that allows a remote user to take over a PC

By Elizabeth Montalbano

Jun 17, 2009 3 mins

Sun reportedly cancels 16-core Rock processors

According to a New York Times report, the chip is being given an 'unceremonious end' just three months after Sun said the processor was on track for a fall delivery

By Jon Brodkin

Microsoft pares Expression Studio suite

The Expression Media digital asset management software will no longer ship with the Expression Studio tools package, which is focused on Windows desktop and Web development

Gmail Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Google warns of issues with its Outlook sync tool for Apps

Google admits that the Outlook sync plug-in doesn't work with Windows Desktop Search and the Acrobat PDF Toolbar, among other features

By Juan Carlos Perez

Jun 17, 2009 5 mins

Reports: Apple to flip iPhone 3.0 update switch at 1 p.m. Eastern

Carriers tell customers in Sweden, elsewhere, to expect new software within hours

By Gregg Keizer

Nine smarter ways to save money on your next outsourcing contract

Organizations pressured to slash costs may cut the wrong corners on new outsourcing deals and end up disappointed; try these smarter strategies to save money

By Stephanie Overby

Jun 17, 2009 7 mins

Nvidia: Ion will outperform next-gen Intel Pineview Atoms

Chipmaker Nvidia offers up fighting words, says Intel's Pineview chip 'won't even be able to do Windows Vista Premium'

By Eric Lai

Jun 17, 2009 3 mins

IBM allocates $100 million for research in mobile communications

Big Blue research will focus on bringing easy-to-use services to people who use mobile devices as their primary way of accessing the Internet

By John Ribeiro

Dell diversifies with pre-configured server bundles

Dell's fixed systems will include pre-tested servers, storage, and software that it says enterprises can deploy in hours

Jun 17, 2009 3 mins

Dell Technology Industry

Dell announces entry-level iSCSI array line

EqualLogic PS4000 SAN arrays said to bring enterprise-class features like thin provisioning, tighter integration with server virtualization software, and advanced management capabilities to SMBs

By Lucas Mearian

Dell Technology Industry

Semantic Web set for critical mass

Officials at the Semantic Technology Conference talked up the commercialization of semantic concepts, saying they will help usher in Web 3.0

Jun 16, 2009 4 mins

Google to try more security on Gmail

Google is testing using HTTPS by default on all Gmail pages, though the move would likely inhibit performance

By Robert McMillan

Gmail SaaS Technology Industry

NetBooks revamps and renames its small-business app suite

The company's cloud-based application set has been completely rewritten and is being re-launched as WorkingPoint

By Chris Kanaracus

Jun 16, 2009 4 mins

Infor’s ERP gets interest-free financing

The move follows financial concessions from rivals like SAP and Oracle to their users

By Chris Kanaracus

CIA’s technology arm taps open source for enterprise search

In-Q-Tel, the U.S. intelligence community's technology provider, has invested in Lucid Imaginations, whose technology is built on the Apache Lucene and Solr projects

By Elizabeth Montalbano

Jun 16, 2009 2 mins

Nielsen: Microsoft’s search queries fell 14 percent in May

Microsoft's Live/MSN search engine was the only one among the top five that saw its search usage shrink last month, putting the pressure on Bing to recover lost ground

By Juan Carlos Perez

Jun 16, 2009 2 mins

Ex-Googlers debut security service that flags malware on Web sites

Dasient's cloud-based service aims to help Web site managers find malware problems and avoid blacklists which disrupt business

By Ellen Messmer

Endpoint Protection Malware

Bull launches ‘green’ supercomputer

The bullx supercomputer uses graphics processors for faster number crunching

By Mikael Ricknäs

High-Performance Computing

Samsung’s Android smartphone gets first outing

The upcoming Galaxy handset is thinner than HTC's Magic and Apple's iPhone 3G

By Sumner Lemon

Jun 16, 2009 2 mins

HP tool dissects IT spending

Hewlett-Packard announces new software designed to help high-tech decision makers better navigate difficult economic times

By Denise Dubie

Jun 16, 2009 4 mins

Software companies jump on agile programming bandwagon

Compuware, Rally Software, and Daptiv are among the companies launching tools to assist with agile software development processes

Apple bragged that users had downloaded 11 million copies of Safari 4, but it still lost ground in the browser wars last week; Google Chrome and IE gained

By Gregg Keizer