The use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote businesses has exploded over the past six months, according to the results of a study that were released today. People using ...

Cisco Systems Inc. massively expanded its portfolio of collaboration technologies today, announcing 61 products, including a corporate-grade hosted e-mail system called Cisco WebEx Mail as well as a ...

IBM has announced a global forum for educators, researchers and information technology (IT) personnel from the education industry. The new IBM Cloud Academy will help these professionals to pursue ...

Google plans to buy mobile advertising provider AdMob for US$750 million stock, the search giant said on Monday. AdMob is a leader in mobile advertising and already serves ads for some applications ...

Microsoft is emphasizing the potentially money-saving features of Exchange 2010, the latest revamp of its e-mail application officially released Monday at its TechEd European customer conference in ...

Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2010 is a significant improvement over SharePoint 07, providing IT execs with multiple ways to streamline their infrastructure and cut costs. Based on our hands-on ...

Two investment consulting companies laid out objections to Cisco's US$3 billion offer for Norwegian videoconferencing vendor Tandberg on Friday, saying in an open letter to Cisco and a press ...

Stream Processors, a chip design firm focused on video processing, is shutting its doors after burning through at least $26 million in venture capital and is engaged in an asset sale, VentureBeat has ...

Big news from Linden Lab: The company has officially launched an open beta for Second Life Enterprise, and says it is planning a marketplace for enterprise applications and virtual goods such as ...

Throughout its history, Microsoft has earned a reputation for tenacity when entering markets created, and initially dominated, by innovative startups. Competitors and observers have jeered when ...

Twitter made its new retweet function available to a limited number of users on Thursday, as it tests the new feature before rolling it out across its entire network. Retweets are just one part of ...

While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in the industry can't wait to take these technologies to the next level. ...

A Chinese government watchdog plans to push Twitter-style Web sites to censor their content, the country's latest move to block Internet users from posting certain politically sensitive information ...