By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service\Paris Bureau 6 Oct, 2008
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 »
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service\Tokyo Bureau 6 Oct, 2008
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 »
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service\Miami Bureau 6 Oct, 2008
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 »
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service\Boston Bureau 6 Oct, 2008
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 »
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 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 »
By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld (US online) 3 Oct, 2008
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 »
By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service\New York Bureau 3 Oct, 2008
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 »
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service\Seattle Bureau 3 Oct, 2008
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 »
There are few meetings where there are more than 300 people in the morning and by evening the number has risen to 400. Forget that the lunch vouchers were not enough for all techies or that some of them had to stand because the seats were taken. read more »
