SoftwareGrowth in Symbian phone sales slows

The number of phones shipped with the operating system in the second quarter increased by 5% year over year, while in the first quarter, the annual growth rate was 16.5%.

SoftwareOracle to buy ClearApp for SOA management

Oracle Corp. plans to buy SOA-software management company ClearApp. Financial terms were not disclosed.

SoftwareWill Microsoft deliver Windows 7 next year?

Recent hints suggest Microsoft might release the next version of its operating system, Windows 7, earlier than the expected 2010 date, suggesting that the company may also want to cut its losses on Vista.

SoftwareVMware's research head defects to Oracle

VMware CTO Stephen Herrod will begin overseeing research efforts effective immediately.

SoftwareGoogle adds YouTube-like service to Apps suite

Google is betting that companies will find its new video-sharing component to its Apps Premier suite useful for a variety of workplace uses.

SoftwareMicrosoft System Center gets cross-platform support

Microsoft has released beta technologies that enable its System Center software to manage servers running operating systems other than Windows.

SoftwareIs Google your next data center?

Lower costs, snap upgrades and other benefits of cloud computing are leading IT organizations to increasingly outsource traditional IT infrastructure activities like storage and server management to managed services providers. How will this alter the makeup of the IT department of the future? Computerworld looks ahead.

SoftwareGoogle brings out big guns in support of Chrome

Google's famed cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin came out to support Chrome, saying that browser technology...

SoftwareCisco buys into e-mail with $215M PostPath acquisition

Cisco plans to add PostPath's e-mail and calendaring capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.

SoftwareNations question ISO's merit following dropped Open XML appeals

Countries whose appeals against Open XML standards approval were dropped are now questioning the relevance of ISO and the IEC.