T-Mobile lost control of data on 17 million customers

Deutsche Telekom's German mobile phone subsidiary T-Mobile lost control of personal information about 17 million of its customers in early 2006, the company said Saturday.  read more »

EBay buys payment firm for almost $1B, lays off over 1,000

EBay announced two acquisitions Monday, at the same time saying it will lay off over 1,000 staff worldwide and cut back on recruitment.  read more »

Baidu names new CTO

Baidu.com, China's largest Internet search engine, appointed a new chief technology officer on Monday, filling a vacancy that's almost two years old.  read more »

Ask.com upgrade to add improved relevance, speed

Ask.com plans to upgrade its search engine on Monday with several enhancements that it considers significant and that it believes could give its popularity a boost in a market dominated by Google.  read more »

SAP warns on Q3 earnings, cites economy

Turmoil in the world's stock markets over the past several weeks and resulting concern among customers caused "a very sudden and unexpected drop in business activity" at the end of SAP's third fiscal quarter, the company said Monday.  read more »

Group warns that cybercrime will hit enterprise apps

A global e-business and security certification organization has warned that many commercial applications are being produced across the globe daily, creating new opportunities for malicious attacks on commercial institutions and government.  read more »

IBM bundles up cloud initiatives

IBM has joined the companies jostling for position in the cloud computing space. The company has announced a variety of offerings that it claimed would allow users to better manager data and make collaboration easier.  read more »

NASA spacecraft closes in on Mercury, looking for ice

Armed with an array of six instruments for analysis, NASA's Messenger spacecraft is closing in on Mercury where it will take more than 1,200 pictures and hopefully help scientists figure out whether there is ice on the planet closest to the sun.  read more »

Microsoft gives OEMs XP downgrade disks for 6 more months

Microsoft will provide hardware partners with media to let their customers downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP for six months longer than it originally planned, the company confirmed Friday.  read more »

Microsoft discontinues mobile browser project

Microsoft this week stopped supporting Deepfish, its mobile browser research project that was an example of the company's software plus services strategy.  read more »