Clint Boulton

Further fleshing out its enterprise stack, Google  unveiled Google Custom Search Business Edition, a hosted service that lets small businesses quickly and easily add Google search to their Web sites. A follow-up to the Custom Search Engine Google launched last October, Custom Search Business Edition includes site search hosted by Google so SMB customers needn’t […]

Sprint  is now in the loopt. Looking to offer customers a GPS-based  phone service its rivals don’t yet have, Sprint Nextel agreed to offer a social mapping utility that lets users find their friends and possibly even end those annoying missed calls. Those who sign up for the service, offered by startup loopt, may use […]

EMC  refreshed several core storage platforms today, led by the fourth generation of its high-end Symmetrix array. Symmetrix DMX-4 has been built from the ground up with 4 gigabit-per-second (Gb/s), running the newest 750 GB SATA II disk drives alongside its Fibre Channel  disk drives, as well as an enhanced Enginuity storage operating system. While […]

DMX-4 may get top billing from many people, but EMC  isn’t ignoring its other platforms this summer, refreshing the Centera, Celerra, Rainfinity and Clariion lines. In keeping with the energy-efficiency theme, EMC has redesigned its Centera online archive system to consume less power. EMC designed the new Centera Generation 4 LP (low power) node with […]

Thanks to weak cell phone shipments in Europe and Asia, Motorola  said it expects second-quarter sales to be between $8.6 billion to $8.7 billion and that its mobile device unit will not be profitable for the full year. The news, which sent Motorola shares down 20 cents to $17.75 in morning trading, has prompted at […]

Oracle  isn’t the only software vendor with major upgrades in the works. IBM  released its first ever open beta for AIX 6.1, the latest version of the company’s Unix operating system, one day after Oracle unveiled more than 400 features in its Database 11g. AIX 6.1 features new virtualization, security, manageability and near continuous availability, […]

NEW YORK — In its 30th year, Oracle’s  database is the oldest software of its kind in the lot, showing that a mature product is OK as long as you lavish it with new perks. Innovation is the key theme for Oracle’s Database 11g, which company President Charles Phillips and other executives introduced Wednesday here […]

Three of the biggest names in high tech are buddying up to improve the security of IT systems for government agencies. Microsoft , Cisco Systems  and EMC  have created service configurations under the Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA), which is designed to protect and share sensitive government information. The move is a response to the […]

Oracle is heading to New York to formally introduce 11g, the company’s first major database refresh since the launch of 10g nearly four years ago. Forrester Research analyst Noel Yuhanna said 11g, which will be unveiled at a event in the city Wednesday, is an extension of Oracle’s drive to boost availability, performance, security and […]

UPDATED: Google  today took a major step toward protecting its Web applications business by bidding to acquire partner and on-demand security software maker Postini for $625 million in cash. Postini’s software services protect, encrypt, archive and enforce policies for e-mail, instant messaging and other Web-based communications. Google intends to underpin its Google Apps hosted software, […]

Sometimes bold words call for bold actions to make the words stick. An industry analyst has done just that, proclaiming that VMware could represent a more dangerous threat to Microsoft  than even Google . He also called for VMware owner EMC  to either sell off the virtualization vendor in order to let it grow more […]

Western Digital Corporation (WD)  agreed to buy Komag, Incorporated , which makes the crucial spinning media disks that record data inside hard disk drives (HDD), for $1 billion in cash. The deal will make it easier for WD to manufacture its HDDs because it will no longer have to rely on separate arrangements with Komag, […]