Is RIM following in Palm's footsteps?
RIM revealed the BlackBerry Torch 9800 this week with much fanfare, but with mixed reviews and a lukewarm reception. The launch of the BlackBerry Torch seems déjà vu -- reminiscent of the hype and reception of the Palm Pre which ultimately turned out to be Palm's swan song.
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Google denies talks with Verizon to end Net neutrality
Google today denied reports that it is in talks with Verizon for a deal that could undermine Net neutrality.
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Global IT spending set to rise
IT spending has shown some hefty recovery after the economic travails of previous years. According to research from IDC, global sales of software and hardware have recovered from the low point of the recession and, consequently, the analysis company has revised its spending forecasts for the year.
According to the research, services expenditure is set to rise two percent, software spending by four percent and hardware spending by a whopping 11 percent. IDC is projecting an overall increase in expenditure of six percent.
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Report: Google, Verizon in talks over Net neutrality deal
Google and Verizon are reportedly in talks over how to manage network traffic, an agreement that could influence how U.S. regulators view Net neutrality, according to a report in Thursday's Wall Street Journal.
Verizon confirmed the talks have been ongoing with Google and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for 10 months, the paper reported.
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Stuxnet industrial worm was written over a year ago
A sophisticated worm designed to steal industrial secrets has been around for much longer than previously thought, according to security experts investigating the malicious software.
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Microsoft sets stage for IE9 beta
Microsoft has updated its bare-bones preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the last time, saying that the next release would be a beta build.
Although Microsoft hasn't named a release date for IE9's beta, the six-to-eight week stretch between each Platform Preview may provide a clue: If the company sticks to the same gap between the fourth preview and the beta, the latter should show on or after Sept. 15.
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Acer debuts dual Android, Windows XP netbook
Acer's latest crack at combining Google's Android mobile software and Microsoft's Windows XP OS in the same netbook was unveiled at a computer show in Taipei on Thursday.
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Google drops Google Wave
A little more than a year after the service was launched, Google is pulling the plug on its Google Wave social-networking service, the company said Wednesday.
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Microsoft, Salesforce.com settle patent litigation
Microsoft and Salesforce.com have settled the patent infringement lawsuits the companies filed against each other, in an agreement that gives each company protection under its rival's patent portfolio.
Microsoft also said it is being compensated by Salesforce.com "based on the strength of Microsoft's leading patent portfolio in the areas of operating systems, cloud services and customer relationship management software."
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Citrix and VMware stake out desktop and server virtualization territory
In the wake of an analyst report certifying Citrix's XenDesktop 4.1 as the only product that fully satisfies all the criteria for enterprise-class desktop virtualization, Citrix Systems has come very close to conceding it will remain an also-ran in the market for virtual servers.
Burton Group analyst Chris Wolf blogged last week that Citrix had met all of the 52 criteria that the analyst company considers to be absolutely necessary in products designed to allow large companies to host end-user desktops on data center servers rather than physical PCs.
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iPhone 4 scores high satisfaction ratings despite antenna mess
Despite a blizzard of bad press about the iPhone 4's antenna, more than nine out of 10 consumers who have the smartphone said they're happy with their purchase, a pollster said today.
But early buyers of the iPhone 4 are less likely to be satisfied with the smartphone than were early adopters of last summer's iPhone 3GS, acknowledged Paul Carton, research director at consumer spending research company ChangeWave.
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5 major changes in store for the workplace in 2020
How will people work 10 years from now? Gartner thinks it has a pretty good idea, predicting 10 major changes that will occur during the next 10 years.
"Work will become less routine, characterized by increased volatility, hyperconnectedness, 'swarming' and more," said Tom Austin, a Gartner fellow, in a media announcement.
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Windows Phone 7 aims to beat Android, iPhone with speech recognition
Hoping to leapfrog over Google and Apple's successes in the smartphone market, Microsoft plans to use cloud-based speech recognition and natural language processing technology to offer user interface capabilities not found on the iPhone or Android devices.
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