Cisco's powerful CRS-3 router is a significant step in meeting the rapidly growing demand for bandwidth driven by video, cloud computing and mobility, according to analysts. However, Cisco's closest rival, Juniper Networks, is less impressed. - Ci...

CA is continuing its aggressive push to build up its cloud computing capabilities through acquisitions with the announcement that it plans to buy Nimsoft for $350 million. Nimsoft joins Cassatt, NetQoS, Oblicore and 3Tera in CA's series of cloud-rela...

The 2009 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report offers insider knowledge based on forensic investigations of 90 confirmed breaches in 2008. Now anyone with an hour to spare can look over a beta version of the framework used to collect the data. IT...

Google's Gesture Search feature for Android smartphones reignited the complaint about fragmentation and inconsistency among Google's mobile operating system platform because it only works on devices running Android 2.0 or greater, such as the Motoro...

The No. 1 most talked-about product genre at Data Center World 2010 is data center management software. Avocent, Aperture, AccessIT, BMC, EMC, Dell, Methode, nLyte, Aptare, Modius, Rackwise those are just some of the companies coming to the fore with...

Little-known SmartPhone Technologies files lawsuits against Apple, AT T, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sanyo, LG Electronics and Motorola accusing them of violating patents owned by the company. - The smartphone patent lawsuit derby continues with...

Twitter has announced it will begin scanning links posted by users to thwart phishing attacks and the spread of malware on the site. - Twitter has announced plans to route all links through a scanner in a bid to boost security and weed out malicio...

There will be an uptick in IT spending in 2010, but those budgets that do grow will increase by only 1 to 5 percent, according to Ovum. The bulk of CIOs in an Ovum survey said they expect their budgets to remain flat after the recession-ravaged 2009....

LGs intention to be a top-two smartphone contender by 2012 appears to largely involve Google. Reportedly, half the phones it plans to release this year will run Android, and LG could benefit, too, from Googles new enterprise-geared Apps Marketplace....

Microsoft and Adobe are working to port Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on the Windows Phone 7 Series, according to an Adobe executive, which would allow devices running Microsofts upcoming smartphone operating system to play rich conte...

In one of the largest FTC-state coordinated settlements on record, LifeLock and its principals will be barred from making deceptive claims and required to take more stringent measures to safeguard the personal information they collect from customers....

The RSA conference seeks to use lessons from single-tenant data centers to build security into cloud computing infrastructures. - The RSA conference, held in San Francisco during the week of March 1, sought to catch the cloud computing wave, whil...

Acer may have lost the 2009 No. 2 worldwide PC market share position to Dell, according to a new report from iSuppli, but it grew faster than Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. Meanwhile, Dell was the only top-five PC maker to show a loss. - PC makers...

Dell introduced new PCs on March 9 that target the extremes of the workforce spectrum. The Dell Vostro 3000 series of laptops offers small business customers new performance options that are secure, affordable and present a professional appearance to...

Microsoft launched the revamped MSN homepage on March 9, with plans to make this new version available to 100 percent of users within the coming weeks. In addition to a newly streamlined design, the homepage also allows quick access to social-network...