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AT&T is expanding its cloud computing product line with a storage play aimed at enterprise users who want to access data via their laptops, smartphones and other Web-accessible devices. Called "Synaptic Storage as a Service AT&T," it is a joint offering with EMC. Synaptic Storage as a Service gives users access to the AT&T network cloud to store, ...

AT&T is expanding its cloud computing product line with a storage play aimed at enterprise users who want to access data via their laptops, smartphones and other Web-accessible devices. Called "Synaptic Storage as a Service AT&T," it is a joint offering with EMC. Synaptic Storage as a Service gives users access to the AT&T network cloud to store, ...

Scribd.com, the online document-sharing site, plunged into the world of e-commerce Monday with a store designed to help both established publishers and independent authors make sales The Scribd Store allows content creators to set prices and digital rights for their works and follows closely on arrangements with major publishing houses to make some...

Part 1 of this series sketches the history of journalism in the U.S. from the pre-Revolutionary era to the present day The economy came crashing down in September 2008 as the credit markets seized up, a massive dislocation which is now, tsunami-like, causing huge damage to the economy. This has significantly reduced the amount of credit available f...

As a growing number of enterprises transition to cloud computing, the use of the term "cloud" becomes more appropriate by the day. Just as natural clouds foreshadow weather events ranging from calm to stormy, cloud computing presents enterprise security professionals with a host of difficult challenges. However, no matter how many challenges arise, cloud computing is here to stay as part of the information-driven world environment that all enterprises work within today. ...

For the last decade, the PC market has kind of sucked. Against the massive growth of the '90s, and with the exception of Apple, which didn't do well in that decade, the PC market has been a poor reflection of the excitement that once surrounded it. Part of the problem was the focus on computation and the lack of focus on things that make computing exciting. In this respect, Apple was the exception, and the fact that it put much more emphasis on the visual aspects of computing -- and recently put a graphics chip in every computer -- helps explain why users tend to be more excited about Apple products. They have, until now, virtually stood alone -- but that is about to change.

Figures from consumer and retail market research firm NPD Group show April game industry sales declined year over year in all categories -- hardware, software, games and game accessories Nintendo continues to dominate the market, with Wii sales totaling about double that of every other contending console. Sales of the portable Nintendo DS system to...

A new wave of phishing and spamming attacks is hitting Facebook users as scammers attempt to get hold of their passwords, the social networking site acknowledged in a statement. Similar phishing and spamming scams -- in which messages supposedly from their friends lure victims to a malicious Web site -- have been occurring with greaterintensity si...

Amazon has opened another front in its push to establish the Kindle as the dominant e-reader in the market. The company is allowing bloggers to offer their posts in a subscription formatvia the Kindle store. The program is currently in beta. Bloggers can sign up for an account right now, however, by providing Amazon with information and an RSS li...

Everyone talks about building an online community that drives "viral" marketing -- but how exactly do you accomplish that? Viral marketing is not about setting up a forum and hoping people will come. It's not about launching the 3,009th Facebook application that will sink quickly into obscurity. It's about driving a value chain and meeting a need.

Over the years, I have been involved with my share of data center recovery exercises -- everything from power outages to hurricanes to earthquakes to chemical explosions Each time, no matter how well the business continuity plan is written, there is always something that is learned.

Google unveiled changes to its news site Thursday, but the debut was marred by widespread outages of the pages, along with other Google services. The system was restored by 10 a.m. ET, and an investigation into the cause of the disruption is underway, according to a statement from Google -- and countless tweets on Twitter. ...

Overnight, things suddenly changed. The overexposure of a slew of corporate credibility and governance crises is thumping the global populace into sheer panic -- like Richter scales gone wild -- while shattering thousands of mega corporate name brands worldwide. The good and sober companies of the world not only must weather these credibility quak...

As the pace of business increases, business intelligence technologies have been forced to speed up so they can crunch more data and do it faster. On Thursday, IBM unveiled InfoSphere Streams, a high-performance computing system designed to, in essence, provide business intelligence capabilities on steroids Based on IBM's System S stream computing t...

In March, Visa announced that it was removing Heartland and RBS WorldPay, two credit card processors that had experienced major data breaches in the prior months, from its list of PCI-compliant companies. The action is seen by many in the industry as being mainly for show (and, according to some cynics, to distance the company from possible litiga...

The term "marketing automation" is perhaps one of the most widely used, ill-defined and ambiguous terms in the marketing and sales technology landscape. Ask 10 different people how they define marketing automation, and you'll probably get 10 different answers. Are there marketing automation solutions? Is it a category? Is it a type of technolo...

With the Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committeetaking a fresh look at the privacy and security risks posed byusing LimeWire and other peer-to-peer file-sharing applications, nowis a good time for both home and office users of these services toreassess the safety of their own sensitive data Committee members last month directed Mark...

Google launched on Tuesday a series of new search features that letusers integrate options for displaying and analyzing their searchresults beyond the traditional listing of keyword hits ranked byassumed relevance The new services are part of a platform of additional features Googleis developing and will make live in the future, though it offered n...

In an abrupt about face, Craigslist has announced it will take down its "erotic services" ad category. In its place will be a new adult services section that will be screened by Craigslist staff before publication, according to a statement made by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who is head of a multistate attorney general task force investigating the controversial issue.

The European Commission fined dominant CPU maker Intel US$1.4 billion on Wednesday after finding the company violated anticompetition laws Intel CEO Paul Otellini blasted the decision in a conference call with reporters, saying EU regulators had ignored crucial evidence that will, on appeal, prove the company innocent of charges that it harmed cons...