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Google is reaching out to help those who just don't have the time to wade through hundreds of emails each day The company unveiled Priority Inbox, an application that aims to automatically identify important incoming messages and separate them from more general, tedious emails....

VMware on Tuesday announced two purchases aimed at furthering its vision of the future of IT One is Integrien, which offers software that -performs real=time application and infrastructure performance analysis....

Google continued its shopping spree through the social networking marketplace on Monday, agreeing to purchase SocialDeck, a 2-year-old company that develops games for mobile devices This marks Google's third purchase of a social networking company during the month of August. These purchases have fueled widespread speculation that Google ultimately ...

Trend Micro on Tuesday announced an agentless antimalware module for VMware virtual environments in its Deep Security 7.5 product The company also announced on Tuesday that it's throwing open its Trend Micro SecureCloud beta to the public....

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has struck a deal with officials in India that will allow it to continue to operate in the country, for now. According to a statement by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, the two parties will conduct a 60-day trial of access methods that RIM has proposed so that the Ministry can monitor communications sent on RIM devices.

As companies battered by the recession have begun emerging from their cautionary stances, many are re-evaluating their IT security budgets and looking to solve the age-old question: "What should drive our strategy, security or compliance?" Now is the perfect time for companies to consider the right approach to an important component of their IT security strategy -- identity management -- with the goal of meeting both security and compliance objectives, while streamlining and automating processes to save time, money and resources...

I was at a friend's dual celebration of birthday and wedding anniversary recently, and as part of the occasion someone had prepared two fantastic cakes, which were both amazing to behold and a delight to eat. While the appearance was all to do with the icing, the taste and nutrition were defined by what was under the icing -- the cake itself The re...

Corporate America is playing a cruel joke on Linux desktop. Businesses benefit from free Linux, improving their bottom line on the shoulders of Linux -- all the while ignoring (and damaging I think) the Linux desktop. Linux servers toil in back rooms bringing big bucks to companies smart enough to use them. What do these companies install on their...

Part 1 of this three-part series discusses the "positive feedback loop" tying the evolution of mobile device technologies to the evolution of cloud computing For decades, U.S. cell carriers have crippled the American mobile ecosystem. Their nickel-and-dime mentality has hobbled user and device manufacturer alike. RIM's BlackBerry nearly didn't get ...

Veeam Software on Monday demonstrated its new vPower technology for backing up and restoring virtual machines when disaster strikes The technology's capabilities include restoring an entire virtual machine (VM) within minutes; recovering individual items from any virtualized operating system; and verifying the recoverability of every backup of ever...

Intel is acquiring Infineon's wireless business for US$1.4 billion -- the second major transaction for the company in as many weeks, coming on the heels of its surprising announcement that it would purchase McAfee for $7.7 billion Unlike the McAfee deal, however, the Infineon buy does not have analysts scratching their heads....

Like any other winner-take-all industry, the digital music world is not immune to trendy tech solutions that come and go. Hybrid apps, however, are one trend that's here to stay. Software developers in almost every industry have been meeting their customers' needs for years with early versions of hybrid app technology and in the next few years, hybrids will reign on tablets and mobile phones...

Not very long ago, both social media and e-commerce were new and innovative. Now, they're simply elements of today's marketing mix -- part of the fabric of how you reach your customer engagement and revenue objectives. During the slow economic recovery, it has become business-critical to conduct more business using digital channels: websites, soci...

Salesforce.com is a top provider of CRM software in large part because its application is intuitive and easy to use and deploy. It is interesting, therefore, that many Salesforce.com users are opting for Salesforce.com Mobile because it is even easier and more intuitive to use than the desktop version, according to the company "I personally like us...

This week, Apple is expected to announce a refresh of several iPod products (including the touch) and possibly the Apple TV. The real drama remains with its higher-profile offerings -- the iPhone and iPad -- and last week, Qualcomm gave a credible look at their compelling future. However, with phones running on Google's Android platform passin...

iPod, iPhone, iPad and soon we will have iCloud? Mobile operators are working feverishly to determine how best to tap their network resources and offer not just bits and bytes but content, applications and other forms of value-added services. They know their future cash flow depends on successful deployment of these services....

HP is proving relentless in its bidding war with Dell over data storage company 3Par. Within hours after Dell matched HP's offer of US$1.8 billion, or $24.30 per share, HP countered with $2 billion, or $30 per share The battle for the company broke out in earnest in mid-August with the first public offer from Dell, for $1.15 billion. HP promptly f...

A cosmic ray detector designed to search for antimatter made its way to the Kennedy Space Center Friday in preparation for a February launch that will take it to the International Space Station on the final space shuttle flight. The detector, called the "Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer" (AMS), was flown in from the CERN Labs in Switzerland. CERN is t...

During the first half of 2010, more than 4,300 new disclosures of software security issues came to light. That's according to the mid-year report issued by IBM's special X-Force security research team. What's perhaps a bit more disturbing is how many of those vulnerabilities remain unfixed. More than half of the vulnerabilities identified during t...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) -- enacted in the waning days of the 20th century -- contains provisions designed to make it evolve over time. The idea was that as technology fostered new ways of creating and distributing copyrighted material such as music, movies and software programs, the law could continue striking the proper balance between the consumer's right to access that material and the producer's right to profit from it...