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Technical Support Services to Approach $30 Billion by 2015

Revenue for U.S. consumer and small and midsize business technology-support services will jump by nearly a factor of three in the next five years,...

Microsoft Office 365, Hosted Productivity Platforms Offer Benefits for SMBs

Starting with its June 28th release, Microsoft's hosted productivity and collaboration suite, Office 365, is poised to make a big splash with U.S. small...

The Database Problem Lurking Under Facebook and Skype

PALO ALTO, CA - OCTOBER 06: Facebook founder ...Image by Getty Images via @daylifeFacebook is a database with a great user interface on top....

ISPs Agree to Six Strikes System Warning Users of Suspected Online Piracy

Several ISPs signed a voluntary agreement with the music and movie businesses to crack down on online copyright infringement.Most major ISPs in the United...

Space Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off for Last Time

The space shuttle Atlantis launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida July 8 for the last time, bringing to a close the space...

CloudBees Launches Eclipse Toolkit for Java Cloud Developers

CloudBees, maker of the DEV@cloud Java Platform as a Service, has announced the general availability of its CloudBees Eclipse toolkit plug-in.The CloudBees Eclipse plug-in...

Gateway, MSI Offer Laptops with Latest Intel, AMD Chips

Computer makers MSI and Gateway are rolling out laptops sporting new chip technologies from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.MSI on July 8 unveiled the...

UK Newspaper Scandal Shows How It’s Easy to Tap Into Phone Mailboxes

The techniques used by the staffers at News of the World to listen in on thousands of voicemail messages were fairly low-tech, but voicemail...

Apple iPad, Android Will Power Tablet Shipments in 2011: IDC

Apple's iPad will help drive 53.5 million tablet shipments in 2011, according to a July 8 note from research firm IDC.IDC is raising its...

IBM, ETH Zurich Turn to the Cloud in Battle Against Super-Bacteria

IBM has announced that researchers from science and technology university ETH Zurich and CloudBroker, a high-performance cloud-computing company, have partnered with Big Blue to...