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 ...

Software makers around the world are scrambling to fix a serious bug in the technology used to transfer information securely on the Internet. The flaw lies in the SSL protocol, best known as the ...

"Those most successful at using Twitter to promote themselves have learned that the "social" part is unwieldy. Because it's impossible to track or respond to the tweets of thousands ...

Cisco and EMC are hopping aboard the private cloud bandwagon and, not surprisingly, claim a package containing only their own technology is what enterprises need to build an internal cloud ...

DENVER – Microsoft Wednesday said it will add SharePoint Online services to its Live@edu program that provides free e-mail and other collaboration tools to schools and universities. Platform theme ...

A panel at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco today tackled the juicy-sounding topic “Is Enterprise 2.0 a Crock?” The speakers fired back against a piece from August by ...

Much of the talk about cloud computing in data centers has been about enterprise workloads, but high-performance computing (HPC) customers are getting some options as well. HPC specialist Platform ...

Cloud service providers can make compelling and simple sales pitches in terms of cost of individual services-$100 per user per year sounds pretty good. But "hidden" expenses can alter a company's ...

Google released some interesting statistics today about Friend Connect, which is part of the search giant’s push to build a social layer across the web where visitors can get tailored ...

Microsoft celebrated its 20th year in Taiwan by agreeing to open a joint cloud computing center with the island's economics ministry. The center will be a first for Microsoft in Asia. It aims to ...

Cisco Systems, EMC and VMware hope to soon sign the first Asian customers for their cloud-computing partnership and Acadia joint venture. On Tuesday, the three companies announced a broad ...

"All warfare is based on deception," goes the famous line attributed to Sun Tzu in the Art of War. It may very well be the operating principle that both Google and Microsoft have taken to ...