Big-time players and occasional partners Cisco, EMC and VMware on Tuesday kicked off a new Virtual Computing Environment "coalition" to promote datacenter virtualization and private cloud deployments.

The good news for Cisco and other prominent players is that the VoIP segment continues to buck an otherwise downward trend in the broader communications and telephony segments.

Gamers targetedWatch out, Acer. Rival PC manufacturer Asus has crafted not one, but two laptops with 3D displays, both designed to tempt gamers and film fans into parting with their cash....

Link hard drives, Nas boxes to your TV on the cheapReview The world isn't exactly short of devices designed to get audio-visual content from your Nas box, USB stick or external hard drive and onto your telly. The trouble is,

Web authentication busted on Apache, IISResearchers say they've uncovered a flaw in the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to inject text into encrypted traffic passing between two endpoints....

Drivers get the message, but only after pulling overMore than 115,000 people in England and Wales got fixed penalties for being on the blower whilst driving in 2007, dropping off from the 2006 peak of almost 160,000....

Hadoop buffed for 2010 'completion'ApacheCon 09 Popular grid computing platform could grow up next year, with network authentication and features to stop brand-new code breaking users' existing applications....

Laptop on wheels' available to buyLeccy Tech The organisers of the TTxGP e-bike Grand Prix series have revealed their off-the-shelf electric superbike at the annual Speciality Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas....

Neutrality gets you so farApacheCon 09 Apache Software Foundation (ASF) pioneers have toasted 10 years of independence and successful code development at their annual conference in California....

A private Second Life in a $55,000 boxSome companies like have an uncanny attraction to Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life. They claim the software provides a 3-D collaboration space that's viscerally superior to what traditional mediums such as teleconferencing,

It's what devs wantOpenMobileSummit Google has defended its decision to allow unfettered Android tweaking, saying that although this may fragment the Googlephone market, it's what's best for developers....

Negligent, inattentive electronic filing'A judge has chastised a lawyer for including the social security numbers and birthdays of 179 individuals in an electronic court brief, ordering him to pay a $5,000 sanction and provide credit monitoring....

Poor password hygiene indictmentFederal authorities on Wednesday filed intrusion charges against two men accused of accessing the computer systems of their former employer....

Signs of recovery sightedCisco's fiscal first quarter profit dropped 19 per cent based on lower sales, but the networking equipment giant believes it had already hit the recession's bottom in Q3 and is optimistic about the overall economic outlook....

Breakage unbroke again, move along...Remember how a report recently zipped around the blogosphere about Apple disabling support for Intel's Atom processor in its most recent build of the soon-to-be-released Mac OS 10.6.2? Well, fuggedaboutit....

And a whopping lossOn the revenue front, the acquisition of the carcass of supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics by niche hyperscale server maker Rackable Systems looks like it was a good idea as the combination, now known as Silicon Graphics, closed

Fake SMPs for SMBs and cloudsScaleMP, a maker of virtualization and aggregation software that allows a cluster of x64 servers to look like a big, bad, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) shared-memory system to operating systems and selected classes of applications, is

Android, Palm lag far behindLess than six weeks after that downloads from its iTunes App store had topped two billion, Apple on Wednesday let it be known that its online collection has now topped one hundred thousand apps....

More 'headcount adjustments' still possibleThe bloodletting at Microsoft continues, as the software behemoth said Wednesday it would eliminate 800 jobs in addition to the 5,000 positions it has already pared this year....

It's for your own goodEnterprise 2.0 Google is embracing complete user-access anarchy in its new-age collaboration tool, Google Wave, so that early testers won't be tempted to fall into their old emailing habits....