AT&T to lay off more than 4,000 employees

Telecom giant AT&T plans to lay off 1.5 percent of its employees, primarily in management, in an effort to streamline its operations, the company announced Friday. ...continue reading 'AT&T to lay off more than 4,000 employees'

Oracle to expand SAP lawsuit, may target execs

Oracle plans to expand its lawsuit against SAP to include charges that its TomorrowNow subsidiary stole software applications from Oracle, and that it did so with the knowledge of SAP executives, according to court papers filed Thursday. ...continue reading 'Oracle to expand SAP lawsuit, may target execs'

PayPal to block users with old browsers to curtail phishing

PayPal, eBay's electronic payment service, plans to take the dramatic step of locking out people using older versions of Web browsers in order to stem phishing attacks. ...continue reading 'PayPal to block users with old browsers to curtail phishing'

Bull crams crypto chips into bootable USB hard disk drive

Bull has a gadget for businesses worried about the security of data stored on laptops: a bootable, portable password-protected hard disk drive with an embedded cryptographic processor that protects data if the device is lost or stolen. ...continue reading 'Bull crams crypto chips into bootable USB hard disk drive'

Microsoft confirms testing of 'Albany' low-cost Office suite

Microsoft on Friday confirmed it is planning to release a subscription-based 'value box' of low-end productivity software code-named Albany, and has sent an early version of the product to thousands of beta participants for private testing. ...continue reading 'Microsoft confirms testing of 'Albany' low-cost Office suite'

Android developers' competition draws 1,788 entries

Developers from over 70 countries have submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge, according to Google. ...continue reading 'Android developers' competition draws 1,788 entries'

British police use Facebook to gather evidence

The Greater Manchester Police force has created a Facebook application to collect leads for investigations, marking the first use of the social networking site by U.K. law enforcement. ...continue reading 'British police use Facebook to gather evidence'

Amazon adds support options for hosted services

Amazon is adding new support options for its hosted computing services, a move that could make them more attractive for running business applications. ...continue reading 'Amazon adds support options for hosted services'

MacBook Air spurring LED use in screens: DisplaySearch

The MacBook Air has become the best advertisement for why companies should use LED (light-emitting diode) backlights in notebook screens, and is driving adoption, according to market researcher DisplaySearch. ...continue reading 'MacBook Air spurring LED use in screens: DisplaySearch'

Chinese blogs detail zero-day flaw in Microsoft Works

Chinese-language blogs are detailing a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Works, the company's lower-end office productivity suite, according to security vendor McAfee. ...continue reading 'Chinese blogs detail zero-day flaw in Microsoft Works'

IBM buys storage vendor Diligent Technologies

In the latest of a long line of data and storage-related buys, IBM said Friday it has acquired Diligent Technologies for an undisclosed sum. ...continue reading 'IBM buys storage vendor Diligent Technologies'

Google grows profit and revenue in Q1

Google posted solid growth in its revenue and profit during 2008's first quarter and exceeded Wall Street expectations in both categories, amid widespread concern that the search engine giant's results would be weak. ...continue reading 'Google grows profit and revenue in Q1'

AMD reports sixth consecutive quarterly loss

A weak first quarter has yielded a sixth consecutive quarterly loss at struggling chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). ...continue reading 'AMD reports sixth consecutive quarterly loss'

SEMs crave more search ad competition, eye MS-Yahoo

If Microsoft acquires Yahoo, the search engine ad market could gain a viable and sorely needed competitor to Google, but only if the post-merger integration is done with speed and precision. ...continue reading 'SEMs crave more search ad competition, eye MS-Yahoo'

Ray Ozzie talks open source, mesh

Microsoft has 'dramatically' changed because of open-source software, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Thursday as part of a wide-ranging discussion during the annual Most Valuable Professional summit in Seattle. He also talked about Microsoft's mesh concept and the importance of virtualization. ...continue reading 'Ray Ozzie talks open source, mesh'

AMD's Quad-Core Opteron available in Dell servers

Five Dell servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' Quad-Core Opteron processors are available on the computer company's Web site, bringing the number of server models that use the chip to 13, AMD said. ...continue reading 'AMD's Quad-Core Opteron available in Dell servers'

CEO subpoena scam fires up anew

After tricking several thousand executives into downloading malicious software earlier this week, online scammers started up their subpoena phishing scam again Wednesday, but on a much smaller scale. ...continue reading 'CEO subpoena scam fires up anew'

MySpace hack reveals profile visitors

A security problem with MySpace has the potential to botch up law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site. ...continue reading 'MySpace hack reveals profile visitors'

Ballmer calls Windows Vista 'a work in progress'

As PC users clamor for Microsoft to continue to support Windows XP, company CEO Steve Ballmer called the Vista OS "a work in progress" at an annual Seattle event on Thursday. ...continue reading 'Ballmer: Windows Vista is a work in progress'

SANS solves mystery of mass Web site infections

The SANS Institute has uncovered what they've termed a 'rare gem' as far as computer security investigations go that sheds new light on how up to 20,000 Web sites have been hacked since January. ...continue reading 'SANS solves mystery of mass Web site infections'