Microsoft researchers have slashed desktop energy use with a sleep proxy system that maintains a PC's network presence even when it is turned off or put into standby mode.
Just under a year after it went on sale, Nintendo's "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" has become the first Wii software title to sell 4 million copies in Japan, a market data provider said Tuesday.
Oracle will port its Enterprise Linux distribution to Sun's Sparc processor, a move that could help it compete better against IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the high-end server business.
Apple spends just a fraction of what Microsoft does on acquisitions and R&D, yet it now has a higher market capitalization because it gives users what they want.
One out of every two IT security professionals spends 50% of the work week on regulatory compliance initiatives, according to a new survey sponsored by eEye Digital Security.
The Computex Taipei electronics show will celebrate its 30th anniversary when it opens next Tuesday, and will highlight several new tablet computers hoping to compete against Apple's iPad as well as a slew of other electronic gadgets.
Microsoft sees better opportunities in Indonesia and India than it does in China due to "very, very low" protection for intellectual property in China, Microsoft's chief executive said Wednesday.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Tuesday announced some major changes in the company's entertainment and mobile device businesses. Veteran Robbie Balch, who oversaw a combined group, is retiring and won't be replaced.
Google is continuing its push for business customers by adding policy features to the Chrome browser, giving IT shops the means to manage Chrome in Windows, Mac and Linux environments.
Are you content with the way IT is viewed in your organization? If not, you need to study the work of Dr. George Westerman, a Research Scientist in MIT Sloan's Center for Digital Business (CDB), who suggests you rethink the metrics you measure and how you communicate IT's value.
Juniper Networks this week unveiled new switches, routers, software and services designed to help enterprise IT reduce the cost and complexity of data center networking while also improving application and business performance.
Adobe today has launched an ad campaign that gushes "We Love Apple," though after listing all the things the companies have in common it ends by scolding Apple for blocking technological freedom of choice.
NComputing is the only VDI solution of the three reviewed [1] that provides its own virtualization [2] layer -- no VMware [3], Citrix [4], or Microsoft hypervisor [5] required. NComputing's vSpace is a virtualization application with an ultrasmall footprint that runs on any Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host operating system. Much like Terminal Services, it carves up the underlying system's resources among multiple users, allowing a single computer to host as many as 30 simultaneous desktops. Performan
Apple appears to have reversed course in Japan on a key feature of its iPad 3G: It won't offer a version capable of being used with different cellular carriers there.
Microsoft is asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to deny Apple a trademark on the name "App Store," saying the term is generic and competitors should be able to use it.
Apple is switching to an unusual and rare type of exterior screw for its iPhone and other mobile products, making it much harder for users to take them apart and fool around with the internals, according to a Website that specializes in dissecting popular electronic devices.
Cisco Systems earned the top spot on the new Greenpeace "Cool IT" leadership list, while some of Japan's biggest electronics vendors -- Toshiba, Sharp, Sony and Panasonic -- finished last.
Executives in charge of information security should make friends with the CFO, who can give them a broad overview of corporate priorities and see to funding the most important IT projects that protect corporate data.
For years, enterprise IT departments could be fuzzy about the costs of individual IT services and applications, but tight budgets and the relative clarity of cloud computing costs have forced CIOs into sharp focus.
When there was a hullabaloo last November over Cisco all too quietly ending any new third-party support for the Cisco Security, Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (MARS), analysts predicted IT managers might not be as eager to fly to MARS anymore since MARS would not be expanding log collection for non-Cisco equipment in the future.