Datamation Staff

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology news website TechCrunch published on Wednesday sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial projections, offering a rare glimpse into the wildly popular microblogging site. Twitter has a targeted revenue run rate of $140 million by the end of 2010, with the expectation it would record its first revenue — […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp will open stores close to those of Apple Inc this fall, according to its chief operating officer, as it looks to win back the initiative in the battle for Main Street PC and gadget buyers. “We’re going to have some retail stores opened up right next door to Apple stores […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) chief executive attempted to laugh off the challenge of Google Inc’s (GOOG.O) planned computer operating system on Tuesday, conceding only that it was “interesting”. “I will be respectful,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said to laughs from the audience at a conference for the company’s technology partners in New Orleans, […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – As the iPhone becomes a popular mobile gaming device, large game publishers with deep pockets are going head-to-head with smaller developers who found early success on the Apple Inc phone. With name recognition and financial resources, publishers like Electronic Arts, Gameloft and Glu Mobile have a huge advantage. But up-and-coming companies […]

TORONTO (Reuters) – Patent licensing firm Mosaid Technologies Inc said on Monday it was taking IBM to court for allegedly infringing on six of Mosaid’s U.S. patents. Mosaid said the long-running dispute was over IBM’s making and selling of microprocessor and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) products. The Ottawa-based company said it was granted the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The ever-weakening job market could well lead to an increase in online crime as laid-off workers, especially those with computer skills, turn to scams to support themselves, Cisco Systems Inc said in a mid-year security report to be released on Tuesday. Disgruntled employees may target their former employers, and Cisco warned that […]

As IT budgets are squeezed, and managers are looking for new ways to save money yet deliver the same services, this may be the perfect time to look into vendor-independent solutions. Vendor lock-in is great for the vendor, but not as much for the IT shop. In this article we focus on the infrastructure side […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Six in 10 companies in a survey plan to skip the purchase of Microsoft Corp’s Windows 7 computer operating system, many of them to pinch pennies and others over concern about compatibility with their existing applications. Windows 7 will be released October 22, but has already garnered good reviews, in contrast […]

BOSTON (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp will release a free version of its dominant Office software that users can access over the Web, catching up with products that arch rival Google Inc launched three years ago. The world’s largest software maker will offer a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software and a note-taking program with the same […]

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) – Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said there may be announcements later this year about netbook PCs running its new Chrome operating system, as the Internet giant makes its deepest push into Microsoft Corp’s business. Schmidt also said on Thursday that while the worst of the economic downturn has passed, […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – For years it was the talk of the wireless industry: beaming television to the world’s four billion cellphones would be the icon of the digital age. Now, just three letters are hastening the demise of that vision. App. Short for “application,” the programs people download from online stores to run on their […]

LONDON (Reuters) – For the millions of people who spend hours glued to their computer screens chatting on social networks came the good news this year that they could finally get out more often. From social networks to games, images and music; online entertainment has increasingly moved to the mobile handset. But fans should beware: […]