News

HP Seeks New Skills to Staff Data Centers

Hewlett-Packard is cutting 9,000 IT jobs while adding 6,000 new employees who have sales and service-delivery expertise.

What Steve Jobs has in store for the iPhone

Trend Micro makes push into desktop virtualization security

Trend Micro's latest endpoint security product protects Citrix, VMware virtualized desktops; Windows 7 support added as well

Microsoft upgrades Expression toolset with search engine optimization

Security Manager’s Journal: Without patch management, you are nothing.

You may have an extremely sophisticated security program in place, but it's all for naught without patch management.

The Grill: Fred Brooks

The father of the IBM System/360 reveals his secret for great design.

Apple iPad targeted by Avaya device

Avaya is prepping a business device like an Apple iPad for business

HP enables remote printing via an e-mail address

HP says customers can send documents from mobile devices directly to a printer

IBM expands Rational conference

Innovate is the new name for IBM's Rational Software conference

Microsoft slates Windows 7 SP1 public beta for July

But it downplays importance of the service pack

Barnes & Noble offers free coffee to promote in-store e-reading

Promotion aimed at users of Nook, iPad and other devices running Barnes & Noble e-reader software

Microsoft emphasizes hybrid cloud at TechEd

The company extends existing software to run in the cloud

Apple announces iPhone 4

CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new smartphone at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco

No 4G for Apple’s iPhone 4

Could be last Apple iPhone with solely 3G connectivity

Flash memory

Get up to speed on the storage technology inside memory cards, smartphones, USB sticks and the new solid-state drives.

Tech execs wade into the political fray

Will IT smarts shape public policy?

IT labor market: Volatile, no tranquillity in sight

Microsoft TechEd: More Cloud Plan Details

Public safety groups press for more spectrum

Emergency responder groups will push Congress to turn over the D block spectrum

Cisco’s Quad takes social networking to the enterprise

Quad's collaboration platform mixes Web 2.0 tools with business apps for the cubicle

World Cup security: Preparing for the unexpected

Security vet Bill Besse details the complex planning that goes into protecting a client at the world's largest sporting event

Cloud Computing Shopping List: 4 Key Ingredients

EPA launches Energy Star for data centers

Data centers in the top 25 percent for efficiency will be able to apply for the Energy Star logo

Microsoft stresses Azure cloud apps at TechEd

Windows Azure now supports .NET Framework 4, Microsoft says at TechEd

Analysts offer different views of May IT labor data

One group sees a solid IT hiring gain in May; another sees net loss of 100 jobs

With iOS, Apple gets the OK to borrow a Cisco name

Cisco said Monday that it licensed the iOS name to Apple, avoiding a possilbe legal fight

Researchers: Poor password practices hurt security for all

Passwords cracked at weak sites might be used at sites with better practices

iPhone 4 includes FaceTime video chat

But video chat will work only on iPhone 4s and over Wi-Fi

AT&T’s account site crumbles under iPhone owner load

Early eligibility offer for iPhone 4 upgrade swamps site

Eclipse: Developers growing more fond of desktop Linux

BofA call center worker pleads guilty to data theft

He allegedly focused on customers with balances greater than $100,000

Update: Attackers exploit critical bug in Adobe’s Flash, Reader

Reminiscent of July 2009 attacks that exploited same component in Reader

Apple WWDC vs. Microsoft TechEd

Breakdown of conferences held by Apple and Microsoft, the world's two most valuable tech firms

Beyond Apple’s WWDC: Five not so crazy iPhone predictions for 2011

Apple iPhone could get LTE connectivity, 1.5GHz processor and more

Activists worry about a new ‘Green Dam’ in Vietnam

Activists worry that new software mandated for Hanoi ISPs could operate like China's Green Dam

Insurer says it’s not liable for University of Utah’s $3.3M data breach

In lawsuit, Colorado Casualty says its policies do not obligate coverage

WiMax Forum upbeat despite defections

The departure of as many as 100 onetime members is natural and WiMax still has a place in 4G, the group's leader said

Archive project will digitize WWII Enigma messages

HP is helping British historians preserve intercepted messages from German Engima encryption machines

California Casualty ditches Cisco security box

AccelOps, whose CEO founded the company that created the Cisco MARS appliance, gets the win

Google relents, will hand over European Wi-Fi data

Google plans to hand over sniffed Wi-Fi data to European regulators

Android tablets on show by Foxconn, Hardkernel

Both iPad-rivals had 10.1-inch touchscreens

Storage revenue on the rebound, IDC says

Sales to enterprises came back from the recession in the first quarter, according to the research firm

Disk storage sales hit double-digit growth

NetApp jumped from No. 4 to No. 2 in overall sales, now tied with IBM

Hard drive horse race between Western Digital, Seagate heats up

WD grabbed market share from its arch rival in Q1

Visa launches one-time passcode cards in Europe

The cards contain a keypad, display and password generator to help prevent card-not-present fraud on the Internet

Decoding the new AT&T iPhone data plans

Unlimited data ends June 7, or does it?

Over a dozen iPad-rivals shown at Computex

Most used Google's Android software, but Windows scored some important wins

ITU conference focuses on cybersecurity and local content

The agency has a target of providing broadband access to half of the world’s population by 2015

TechEd watchers expect Windows Phone news, Azure details

Microsoft needs to sustain Windows Phone 7 momentum, reveal more details about its Azure cloud computing services

Will Microsoft sustain Windows Phone momentum?

TechEd conference offers a big stage for the mobile OS