Google Inc. started displaying ads Thursday within its local maps as the online search leader tries to find more ways to make money from the free services it has been introducing.
 
Google already displays some text-based ads to the side of maps. The new ads will show up as part

3Com and IBM announced a partnership today to port 3Com's IP telephony server onto IBM's System i server platform, the re-branded, multiplatform version of the old AS/400 series.

The System i IP Telephony Suite will enable IT to reduce the cost and complexity of mid-market offices by deploying a single server housing

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said it would license key technologies used in its mouse and keyboard products.
 
The Redmond, Wash., company said it would make the U2 Internet detection and switching technologies, tilt wheel and magnifier tool broadly available to third-party brands and hardware manufacturers.

Microsoft said it would

Negatives of working in the Washington D.C. area like horrific traffic jams and high gas prices have helped earn the city a designation as "Best City for Teleworking," according to the results of a survey released Thursday.

The survey, conducted by the Intel Corp. and research firm Sperling's BestPlaces, chalked up the

Back in the '90s, thin-client talk was all the rage. Whether it was Oracle's Larry Ellison or Sun's Scott McNealy, executives from across the IT landscape were heralding network-based "dumb" boxes as the eventual slayers of traditional PCs.

Of course, that hasn't happened. PCs still abound. Yet for a number of reasons today,

With revenue growth from wireless voice traffic slowing, U.S. wireless providers will focus on wireless data services and businesses, according to two reports released Wednesday by IDC.

Wireless service providers enjoyed a stellar 2005 year with some 200 million subscribers and a near market saturation of 70 percent, the market research firm

Burlingame, Calif. -- BEA Systems is working to modularize services from its WebLogic Server application server, enabling them to run independently with open source frameworks, a company official said on Thursday.
 
Known as "backplane," the modularization technology would make available separate from the application server functions such as Web services,

Forget shredding your mail or worrying about who might have a copy of a recent credit card transaction. You have much bigger problems if you want to keep your personal information private.
 
In fact, personal information is now so readily available that a total stranger with nothing more than an

As managed services continues to dominate the tech scene for 2006, security vendor McAfee joins the fray with the launch of its Global Services Strategy. Under that initiative, the vendor will train and certify its channel partners to provide services around McAfee products.

"Our partners have been asking for more help from us

MANHASSET, N.Y. — IBM scientists have developed a new technique, called spin-excitation spectroscopy, to explore and control magnetism at its fundamental atomic level.

The method promises to be important not only in the quest to understand the operation of future computer circuit and data-storage elements as they shrink toward atomic dimensions, but also