Next year, if all goes according to plan, Red Hat will become the first open source software company to generate more than US$1 billion a year in revenue.
Intel on Wednesday started shipping the latest Atom chips for netbooks, an important step to sustain growth of the low-cost PCs in the wake of the tablet onslaught.
Online spending so far this holiday season in the U.S. was 15 percent higher than last year, rising to US$35.3 billion, according to figures released Wednesday.
According to leaked benchmark stats, it looks like Intel's new system-on-chip will be pretty speedy.
A judge has tossed out a number of claims in a California county's lawsuit against SAP over an allegedly failed ERP software implementation, including the claim...
Hacktivists may have been confused and unfocused in 2011, but they were still a force to be reckoned with.
Times change, and so do popularity trends in Linux distributions. Here's a look at the top 10 closing out the year.
If you run a business, it's time to plan your marketing strategy--and that means fully embracing social media.
LG announces the world’s largest OLED HDTV with a 55-inch screen that it says trumps LCDs and incorporates new affordable technology.
Our sun is ramping up its solar activity right about now: Look for an increase in solar storms in the next couple years.
SAP's US$3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors has passed an important regulatory step, with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission deciding on Friday to grant...
China is in the midst of an unprecedented data center construction boom that's providing business opportunities for U.S. companies and could see China emerge...
This was the year of new cameras and emerging camera categories, an explosive array of desktop, mobile, and cloud-based software and services, and a renewed focus on Web design and Internet standards.
The market share of Microsoft's mobile platform was just 1.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011, according to Gartner figures.
Hover, Name.com, and Namecheap are offering discounted transfer rates in an attempt to get people to leave Go Daddy.
If you’re a gamer, these are the must-have apps for you to play on your iPhone.
The breach, which occurred several months ago, is part of a larger Anonymous hacking campaign called LulzXmas.
Let's delve deep into a detailed review of what's new in Android 4.0 and how it measures up.
Mitsui, a massive Japanese conglomerate, will invest US$12 million in an ambitious smart grid project that is being constructed in New Mexico.
China on Tuesday began offering its own satellite navigation system to users, as an effort to move away from the nation's reliance on the U.S.-built NAVSTAR GPS...
What does the future hold for processors? We expect more speed and less power consumption, lurking behind unassuming code names such as Ivy Bridge, Piledriver, and Tegra 3.
Inventor Matt Richardson has found a way to visually display Twitter posts on a phosphorescent paper canvas, due to some clever gadgetry.
News about successful hacks isn't news at all because no one is doing security right and everyone's been breached.
Despite years of development and countless millions in marketing, Windows Phone 7 still has gained no traction with consumers.
Finally, there's an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 devices -- most of them, anyway.
Apple's buyout of Israel-based solid-state drive (SSD) manufacturer Anobit Technologies will give the company a significant technological boost in the mobile market, and the deal could yield huge cost savings.
As budgets are locked in for 2012 it's time to aggressively expand server virtualization, and those who are held back by cost may consider virtual desktops.
A federal judge in Delaware has cancelled a Feb. 14 trial of an antitrust case filed against Intel in 2009, after plaintiff New York state asked the court to allow its transfer to a New York state court.
NTT DoCoMo said Tuesday it will form a joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and two other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-speed mobile networks based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard.
Computer Sciences Corp. might have to write off the US$1.5 billion investment it has made in developing and deploying a failed e-patient records system in the U.K., which the government canceled in September, the company warned in a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read on to learn how horrible customer service is killing the reputation of N-Control, a video game controller vendor with poor choice in PR agencies.
Chinese electronics manufacturer JinXing Digital cares nothing for copyright laws, releasing an Android tablet that oddly promotes gaming piracy with... Justin Bieber?
Samsung may reconsider bringing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the Galaxy S and 7-inch Galaxy Tab, according to reports.
Lego? In my particle collidor? Well, not exactly. But this Large Hadron Collider re-creation will impress just about any physics--or Lego--geek.
Another handheld take on the Nintendo GameCube has debuted in the underground modding community, and it even comes with its own music video.
A website allows Stratfor customers to determine whether their e-mail addresses were compromised in the data breach.
Yes, the 30 Days With the Cloud saga continues. After a bit of a holiday hiatus, the series is back in gear and taking a look at the backend support that comes with using cloud services.
Operator partnerships and small-scale mobile payment trials will start to bear fruit in 2012 and some analysts think Apple will make a play for our wallets. But...
Well, we erred in our 2011 predictions in not repeating a 2010 forecast that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO -- it was bound to happen, we just called...
Namecheap had accused GoDaddy of delaying domain transfers to discourage its customers from leaving the service.
The Italian Antitrust Authority has fined Apple €900,000 (US$1.2 million) for not giving consumers enough information about its guarantees, the authority said on...
A hacker has released what is being dubbed as a pre-alpha build of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Kindle Fire. The hack is still a little buggy.
Similar to KDE, this Qt-based desktop environment offers Linux users a new open source choice.
You can scramble to keep up with technology, or you can use technology to give your business a strategic advantage over your rivals. You decide.
Users have reported various crashes and gameplay lag, as well as sudden device freezes.
This variant of the Firefox Web browser is built for 64-bit systems and optimized for speed.
Spire is not burdened by copyright issues, according to its developer, and appears to be free of piracy.
Nintendo has published an official Zelda timeline that ties all the games together using a convoluted time travel story. But even though it's canon, is it actually any good?
Police say the woman hid in a closet with her laptop and posted a status update on Facebook after being held captive for about four or five days.
When automakers and wireless providers finally figure out how to develop and sell a 4G-connected car, our whole relationship with cars will change.
Facebook and Yelp are set to lead at least 14 Internet-related companies through initial public offerings that may raise $11 billion
Google’s social-networking service is adding 625,000 users per day in a challenge to Facebook’s supremacy, says an independent analyst
Mu Sigma, a company that helps businesses make decisions by analyzing data, attracted a $108 million investment, the largest round of private-equity financing in the analytic-services industry.
South Korean manufacturers’ confidence fell to a 30-month low as Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s death clouded the country’s business outlook.
Japan’s rebound from the March earthquake and tsunami sputtered in November as production and retail sales tumbled, deepening the nation’s return to the deflation that first took hold a decade ago.
Akamai Technologies Inc., operator of a server network that lets businesses speed data delivery, rose the most in more than 19 months after agreeing to buy startup competitor Cotendo Inc. for about $268 million in cash.