November 9, 2009 The 10 most severe software vulnerabilities during the first half of 2009 affected software from Apache, Citrix, IBM, SAP, Sun, and Symantec, among other organizations.
November 9, 2009 The company launched telepresence, unified communications, and WebEx products and enterprise social software and hosted e-mail solutions.
November 9, 2009 HP, IBM, and Oracle say "cloud computing" is a bad name, so we're asking you to come up with a replacement name. You might (hah!) win $100,000,000.
November 6, 2009 A report recommends high-speed broadband with download speeds of up to 20 Mbps by 2015, and could be a model for a nationwide broadband plan.
November 5, 2009 Hewlett-Packard has fired back at Cisco in the increasingly contentious race to field an overarching data-center strategy, which will enable enterprises to rein in the complexity of sprawling networks and rampant virtualization.
November 5, 2009 Major wireless carriers and handset makers reach agreement on the technical profile of voice and SMS services over Long-Term Evolution networks.
November 5, 2009 In a rare and exclusive interview, the man who transformed IBM speaks out on business analytics, cloud computing, and the emerging Smarter Planet.
November 4, 2009 The number of data centers belonging to the U.S. government has more than doubled in the past 10 years. Can Federal CIO Vivek Kundra put a stop to the trend?
November 4, 2009 After two months as IBM's first company-wide CIO, Pat Toole talks about battling 80/20, a massive data-center consolidation, cloud initiatives, and cutting 11,500 apps.
November 3, 2009 Software providers must look beyond lists of features and address business needs. And they must deliver on the promise of the next-generation customer experience.
November 2, 2009 A computer technician has been indicted for stealing the identities of 150 Bank of New York employees, as well as for grand larceny and money laundering.
November 2, 2009 As Microsoft waits for Windows 7 sales to hasten the transition to Internet Explorer 8, the company's overall browser share continues to decline.
November 2, 2009 Sensing Cisco is distracted with its non-networking ventures as CIOs are growing unhappy with rising network costs, Juniper is going after Cisco full-bore with key new products and partners.
October 30, 2009 A series of high-profile announcements at the New York Stock Exchange featured 3D routers, a new networking chipset, and a cloud computing initiative.
October 29, 2009 Hurd offers a startling observation about how the roots of bad IT almost always reside in the corner office, and he explains how HP attempts to address the needs of both the CEO and the CIO.
October 28, 2009 The City of Los Angeles plans to replace its Novell GroupWise e-mail system with Google Apps, partly using anti-trust settlement money paid by Microsoft.
October 27, 2009 Users of Google Voice can now choose Google as a voicemail provider for existing mobile numbers, displacing mobile carrier voicemail systems in the process.
October 26, 2009 Public health officials in Rhode Island are electronically monitoring possible swine flu outbreaks based on drug data from pharmacies.
October 26, 2009 Despite intense competition from AT&T and its Apple iPhone, buying Alltell has helped Verizon Wireless keep subscriber numbers robust.
October 26, 2009 Promising that HP can combine massive scale and innovation, CEO Hurd says it will separate itself from IBM and others by having a complete end-to-end line of hardware, software, and services.
October 23, 2009 E-mail used to be the Internet's killer app. Mozilla's forthcoming Raindrop software anticipates a world where e-mail has been reduced to one channel among many.
October 22, 2009 Paul Otellini sees businesses moving to replace their aging hardware and promise in moving to a more distributed approach to healthcare.
October 22, 2009 Two offshore-services execs and a prominent American CIO plan to open IT-services centers across the U.S. as low-risk and and price-competitive alternatives to offshore providers.
October 21, 2009 The new, router-based architecture makes it possible for virtual services with video and collaboration features to be remotely deployed and managed.
October 21, 2009 Want to know the real cost of the drawn-out dithering of the EU and its fawning groupies? Sun has to lay off 3,000 employees because its acquisition by Oracle is still under review.
October 19, 2009 New rules governing online communication are expected later this week and Internet companies are making sure their concerns are heard.
October 19, 2009 The alliance is using 'life size' video conferencing for communications and collaboration, project management, and emergency situations.
October 19, 2009 The CTO of Hewlett-Packard's network equipment division talks about virtualization, managing sprawl, where cloud computing fits in, and his IEEE standards work to make Ethernet the single converged fabric in the data center.
October 19, 2009 The big IT players are realigning and while Oracle's love-fest with Salesforce.com is nice, Oracle will need a whole lot more friends than that to compete against not just SAP but also IBM.
October 14, 2009 Realtime monitoring and management of communications and IT infrastructure are being provided under the umbrella of Avaya's Managed Services.
October 13, 2009 Virtualization could take a large chunk out of the $1.2 trillion spent on IT in North America each year, Michael Dell said at OracleWorld.
October 13, 2009 Starent Networks provides multimedia core platforms for mobile carriers shifting from 2.5G and 3G network technologies to 4G networks.
October 12, 2009 Several top Indian IT-services companies want to step up into the world of broad-based, run-it-all outsourcing. Will the White House penalize them in an attempt to protect "our jobs"?
October 9, 2009 Responding to complaints from AT&T and members of Congress, the FCC on Friday asked Google to explain how it operates its Google Voice service.
October 8, 2009 If SAP can deliver on the vision of its Chief Value Officer, it will make available to CIOs best practices, benchmark metrics, and breakthrough thinking and innovation.
October 6, 2009 An Executive Order mandates that federal agencies implement green data center strategies, double-sided printing, and PC power management, as part of a broader sustainability push.
October 5, 2009 Mark Hurd has cranked up HP's operational excellence but HP has yet to reveal an equally compelling external strategy to the world: what is HP's core strength? What does HP do best?
October 1, 2009 The oversight of the Internet's infrastructure will become more international under a new government agreement with ICANN. But many concerns remain unresolved.
October 1, 2009 The $3 billion acquisition is a major building block in Cisco's pledge to broaden the firm's focus from routers and switches into other areas.