Christopher Saunders

If you’re a close follower of the online tech press, you may have noticed the brouhaha that surfaced this weekend, touched off largely by the revelation that a popular InfoWorld columnist, Randall C. Kennedy, has been secretly operating a software company — and talking to the press — under the pseudonym of Craig Barth, CTO […]

Google Buzz is again in critics’ cross-hairs over the fact that the social networking service automatically populates’ users follower lists and begins sharing Picasa and Google Reader content. While Google has always maintained that the approach makes it easier for Gmail users to begin using Buzz with their most frequent contacts, some users have raised […]

Greetings and welcome to the redesigned IT News Daily newsletter, brought to you by the staff of InternetNews.com! You’ve probably noticed the revamped design of the daily newsletter — we hope you’ll find that the changes make for faster and easier reading as part of your busy day. But a more streamlined look isn’t the […]

Google this weekend gave more evidence that it’s pursuing the release of its own Android-based smartphone, though it’s remaining shy about disclosing much in detail. Mario Queiroz, vice president for product management at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), said in a blog post on Saturday that the company has begun distributing a “mobile lab” device to its […]

After years of coming under fire for poor network performance, particularly by users of the Apple iPhone, AT&T today is taking steps to both improve and mollify its critics — by enlisting its users’ aid with a new iPhone App that helps target network dead zones. The new AT&T Mark the Spot app, available now […]

Like many U.S. electronics makers, Research In Motion has had its eyes set on China’s massive market for digital devices. Now, through a deal with Hong Kong-based Digital China Holdings Limited, the BlackBerry maker could get its wish. The two companies today announced a distribution deal under which Digital China — a unit of Lenovo […]

Google CEO Eric SchmidtSource: Google While traditional media companies struggle to come to grips with the changing fortunes of their industry as customer attention moves online, Google — as a key aggregator of news content — says it’s not helping to speed their decline. Of course, that may be hard to believe for the newspaper […]

The HP Multiseat’s ms6000 desktop PC and MultiSeat t100 Thin Client access deviceSource: HP NEW YORK — HP today unveiled an array of thin-client solutions that aim to leverage advancements in software, desktop virtualization and private clouds. While it’s often the sexy new PC workstation or powerful new servers that grab the headlines in the […]

Longtime rivals Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and AMD said today that they had reached a settlement that ends years of legal contention over Intel’s market practices — practices that landed the world’s largest chipmaker in court and under the regulatory microscope. Through the agreement, Intel will pay AMD (NYSE: AMD) $1.25 billion and has agreed to […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) said today it plans to buy networking player 3Com in a $2.7 billion deal that aims to turn the hardware giant into a forced to be reckoned with in networking. The agreement will see HP paying $7.90 per share of 3COM (NASDAQ: COMS) — a premium above today’s close of $5.69. The […]

Graphics and design software giant Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) said that it’s cutting 680 jobs to help it slim down and reduce expenses. The figure represents 9 percent of the company’s workforce before its recent acquisition of Omniture, a Web analytics company. The layoffs won’t affect employees of the new unit, it said in an […]