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With Apple’s iPhone 4 just a few weeks away, it’s time for consumers and enterprise customers to decide if the device is worth buying. If consumers wanted to be able to use their fingers to control the device and have access to an App Store to extend its functionality, the iPhone was the way to […]

BP admitted to paying for search keywords so its response Website would rank high in search engines when users look for terms related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Do a search on terms such as “BP” “Deepwater Horizon” and “oil spill” on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing these days and you’re bound to see […]

Cisco Systems, the world’s largest IT networking company, has famously been moving into the data center systems business the last couple of years. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that Cisco is also getting deeper into network storage for small and medium-size businesses. READ MORE >>

The Round Rock, Texas-based hardware and software maker unveiled two new Dell EqualLogic storage arrays, two PowerVault storage arrays, two PowerEdge blade servers, a PowerEdge rack-mount server, and a new series of Juniper Networks-built PowerConnect switching/routing gateways. A list of new storage, server, virtualization and support services also were made available for all of the […]

Microsoft hopes it will complete the Bing-powered takeover of Yahoo’s backend search later this year, according to a Microsoft executive speaking at an investor conference June 9, although complications could delay that transition until early 2011. Microsoft and Yahoo had previously announced that they hoped to have the major aspects of the deal, which includes […]

An impressive array of Internet communications and technology companies, including Google, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco and Verizon, join up to form the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG or TAG), which will work together to find consensus on issues relating to net neutrality. h adjunct professor Dale Hatfield of the University of Colorado at Boulder, the […]

(Reuters) – AT&T Inc said on Wednesday some users of Apple’s iPad have had personal information exposed via a network security flaw, two months after the tablet computer was launched and smashed sales expectations. The breach, first reported by the website Gawker, led to the exposure only of email addresses, AT&T said in a statement. […]

(Reuters) – U.S. antitrust regulators plan to investigate whether Apple is unfairly restricting rivals such as Google from carrying ads on the iPhone, iPad and iPod, the Financial Times said. The regulators have already started scanning Apple’s actions, the paper said, citing people familiar with the move. But it is not yet clear whether the […]

While some technology observers have long predicted the end of tape for use as a data storage medium, Staples Technology Solutions, the business-to-business division of Staples, said it is experiencing growth in tape sales, and that stories of tape’s demise are greatly exaggerated.   “We’re seeing slight growth in our tape business, and in an […]

Cisco Systems officials are getting ready to launch a collaboration platform that brings together social networking capabilities and enterprise-level applications and other features. Cisco officials are preparing a corporate collaboration platform that combines the various aspects of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace with enterprise-level security and policy control and business applications. Cisco is […]

In an advisory June 4, Adobe warned users that a vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader, Flash Player and Acrobat was actively being exploited by attackers. The bug exists in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris as well as the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for […]

Steve Jobs has left the stage at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference, and now it’s time to evaluate what he showed off. The Apple CEO’s announcement was headlined by the iPhone 4, the latest in the long and venerable line of Apple smartphones that have revolutionized the mobile market and effectively changed consumer desire. But there […]