Google is consuming storage and computing power at a worrying rate, according to David Girouard, general manager at the firm’s enterprise division.

During his keynote at the Interop show here this week, Girouard explained that the firm blows through "an incredible amount" of computing power, disk space, and bandwidth. The exec noted that

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Finland-based wireless equipment provider Nokia Corp. said Friday (Dec. 15) it will open a new global networks solution center next year in Chennai, southeastern India, as part of its strategy to penetrate the growing India market.

In April, Nokia announced that it had chosen Chennai as the site for its

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Flat-panel TVs took major strides in becoming a mainstream product in 2005, thanks to aggressive marketing by TV makers and major production capacity expansions by display suppliers.

Sales of both liquid crystal and plasma flat screen TVs have soared as their prices have fallen, and display suppliers are pouring

Microsoft has filed 10 lawsuits against both individuals and companies, alleging that they are pirating software and are selling not-for-resale applications to unsuspecting purchasers.
 
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said the seven lawsuits filed against nine individuals from California, Maryland, New York, Texas, and Virginia were initiated as a result of the

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Five years ago, Apple Computer Inc. was barely an afterthought in the halls of electronics companies. Not anymore.
 
With its best-selling iPods and landmark licensing deals with music and television moguls propelling new ways of consuming digital media, Apple now is the pacesetter.

"In the

It all seemed so promising for the music business heading into 2005. CD sales were up, albeit ever so slightly, for the first time in four years. Legitimate purchases of downloads and ringtones for the first time totaled in hundreds of millions of dollars. And file traders and peer-to-peer network operators were on the

Microsoft has extended an olive branch in announcing on Wednesday on the Team RSS Blog that it will adopt the same orange RSS icon used in Mozilla Corporation's Firefox browser.
 
Two months ago, Microsoft's announcement that it planned to redesign the RSS icon set off a ferocious debate. Microsoft posted

Singer Britney Spears topped a star-studded list of the top-10 name searches on popular Internet portal Yahoo in 2005, the Silicon Valley company revealed.
 
Spears' name has been the most searched term on Yahoo three of the past four years, having been displaced in 2004 by the television show "American

Once upon a time, I used to get a lot of professional e-mail from aol.com addresses. America Online was hot then, and it was for a lot of people the easiest way to get to the Internet.
 
Today, however, few professionals I know would want to have an aol.com address

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The stakes in a bitter legal feud over the BlackBerry wireless e-mail service just got a bit higher.

This week, a tiny patent holding firm battling the device's creator, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), announced a license agreement with RIM rival Visto Corp. With the deal in hand,