Microsoft outlined in very broad strokes its long-term data storage vision on April 6 at a customer lunch in San Francisco.

Microsoft is rebranding its SQL Server Mobile Edition product as "SQL Server Everywhere," and is planning to release a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of a new version of

PayPal on Thursday said 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, National Basketball Association (NBA), and a host of other businesses have begun to accept payments from a new service allowing purchases by mobile phone text messaging.

PayPal Mobile lets consumers buy goods and services, such as DVDs and shoes, by sending a text

The future of Microsoft’s Virtual PC emulation software was already up in the air before Apple released Boot Camp this week. But now that Intel-based Mac users have the ability to boot directly into Windows XP, Virtual PC faces an even more uncertain future.
 
“We are continuing to work with

PayPal on Thursday said 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, National Basketball Association (NBA), and a host of other businesses have begun to accept payments from a new service allowing purchases by mobile phone text messaging.

PayPal Mobile lets consumers buy goods and services, such as DVDs and shoes, by sending a text

A Russian security company announced Friday that it had found a cross-over virus that can infect PCs running either the open-source Linux or Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Dubbed "Linux.Bi.a" and "Win32.Bi.a," the split-personality malware doesn't do any damage. Instead, said Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs in an online briefing, it's a proof-of-concept to prove

At the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley here this week, Aonix announced that it has upgraded its Perc real-time virtual machine for embedded targets by adding Java 5 language capabilities.
 
PERC Ultra introduces full Java 5 language features such as generics, annotations and type-safe enumerations, Aonix (San Diego) said. PERC Ultra

On-demand software vendor and Wall Street darling Salesforce.com took a hit on Friday just one day after the company acknowledged yet another service interruption which affected customers in North America.
 
The company's stock was down almost five percent in midday trading, with news of the service outage a likely source.

The open source software model will continue its assault on traditional applications deployed by the enterprise when Pentaho unveils Business Intelligence Professional Edition Platform next week.
 
The Professional Edition is the latest version from the company that previously offered Pentaho BI Project.

Founded by BI veterans from IBM, Cognos,

Pump-and-dump stock spam works, a pair of German researchers said Thursday as they presented findings at a security conference taking place in Vancouver, Canada.

According to a report posted on the Symantec-owned SecurityFocus Web site, the researchers snared 22,000 stock-related spams between November 2004 and February 2006, then traced prices for 93

Even as his company's stock slid almost 5.5 percent on the Nasdaq in the wake of a disappointing quarterly earnings report, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) CEO Jim Balsillie sounded an optimistic note today, saying that, while subscriber growth may remain soft for the next few months, success later this year will come from