Microsoft has decided to team up with five of the world’s most popular social networks, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, LinkedIn and Tagged, to allow users to move their contacts over via a safe and easy deployment...

Internet behemoth Yahoo! and Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited, said Monday that they have decided to jointly support cloud computing research...

VMware this week announced a multi-year initiative aimed at expanding its India-based research and development (R&D) operations, part of which includes investing USD 100 million in the country by 2010...

Disk-based data protection solutions provider FalconStor Software last week signed an agreement with Jardine OneSoltion (JOS) to distribute its new FalconStor Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Virtual Appliance for VMware Infrastructure solution in Singapore...

Dissatisfaction with traditional outsourcing relationships is changing the way enterprises and their IT service providers do business. According to Dexter Wee, General Manager iBOSS, Asia Pacific, Infrastructure Operations & Outsourcing Solutions, Datacraft, the swing to Multisourcing is a direct outcome of traditional sourcing strategies...

Apple introduced the second wave of its photo editing and management software, Aperture 2, aimed at professionals and prosumers last week.Apeture 2, offers over 100 new features, with a streamlined user interface...

Data De-duplication, one of the hottest emerging segments within the enterprise storage and data-protection industry, is fast evolving from being just a back up solution to become a feature of a broader data-protection offering. Data Domain, one of the leaders in data de-duplication...

For the third year in a row, business intelligence (BI) applications have been ranked the top technology priority in the 2008 Gartner Executive Programs survey of 1,500 chief information officers (CIOs). According to the analyst group, this is because CIOs know they must implement a BI strategy...

The digital universe is bigger and growing more rapidly than original estimates as a result of accelerated growth in worldwide shipments of digital cameras, digital surveillance cameras, and digital televisions as well as a better understanding of information replication trends...

Power consumption and other "green" issues are fast becoming the information technology industry's biggest challenge and as these concerns grow, focus will broaden...