Cisco is trying to buy Skype before it goes public, according to what TechCrunch said Sunday. The blog hasn’t been able to confirm the tale it was told by “one of its more reliable sources,” however, Barron’s Tech Trader Daily says the rumor is nonsense and that its own personal “sou...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lodged a patent suit Friday against AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google subsidiary YouTube. Microsoft is noticeably not named and reportedly has no license to the widgetry. It does own a piece...

As Dell and HP slug it out to capture 3PAR, Cisco may be adopting a quieter acquisition style and attempting - according to TechCrunch anyway - to acquire Skype. Citing someone it refers to only as "one of our more reliable sources," the Silicon Valley-based site claims Cisco has alrea...

AAA (Triple-A) is saving money and the environment by using document management software from DocPath. AAA processes more than 160,000 member transactions annually including invoices, receipts and checks at its national headquarters in Heathrow, Fla. Using DocPath technology, AAA estim...

Google is looking to build its own Facebook to defend against Facebook and its 500 million members running off with too many ads or even starting an ad network across other sites à la Google’s AdSense according to the Wall Street Journal. The search giant has reportedly been talking ...

A significant majority of Americans are troubled by recent revelations that Google's Street View cars gathered communications from home WiFi networks, and they want stronger legal protection to preserve their online privacy, according to a national opinion poll released today by Consum...

Facebook is using salesforce.com for its sales operations. Salesforce says Facebook did a build-or-buy analysis and went with its Sales Cloud 2 for its quick implementation time and ability to scale. It’s deployed the system across its sales teams and developer relations to automat...

Confronted with the shock of the new, it’s only natural for large organizations to trust that yesterday’s strategies will continue to work a little longer. However, after FINRA-1006 was released last spring, the regulatory guidelines that govern social networking policy for the inves...

We all know that time is money and understand that Social Media Marketing is a real-time, targeted way of communicating with an engaged and active demographic, one that gives as much feedback to the company in question as it provides to the demographic. Hence its usefulness and transce...

Admit it, you have a Facebook account. Whether you are an occasional user sharing family photos or a full-blown “friending” addict, it is nearly impossible not to use it. You probably have also seen several warnings from friends not to use an application that burned them or to ignore a...

Google's quixotic and poorly executed attempt to do business in China on its terms rather than the Chinese government's has suffered another serious setback. Google's Internet Content Providers (ICP) license to run google.cn expired on Wednesday and the Communist regime told the compa...

According to Alexei Oreskovic of Reuters, the purchase of $120M in Facebook stock by Elevation Partners - a private equity firm whose partners include U2 frontman Bono - values the social networking company at a staggering $23BN.

Google has lost the guy who started and led its Chrome OS project to Facebook. Matthew Papakipos, who joined Google in 2007 when it acquired PeakStream which he founded, tweeted the news Monday morning, saying “Now that Chrome OS & WebGL are in good shape, it’s time for something n...

Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th Cloud Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, announced today that the event will also feature – on November 2nd, 2010 – a CloudCamp unconference....

It was a rout. The Swiss Post’s fancy lawyers looked at RPost’s patents and told their client to throw in the towel – and so, without going to court, Swiss Post and its Swiss Post Solutions subsidiary have agreed to abandon the American registered e-mail market to RPost after RPost su...

In another remarkable surge, Apple said Tuesday that it had sold another million iPads in the last 20 days. That makes three million since the widget went on sale in the US 80 days ago, 375,000 a day. Currently available in America, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, ...

The need for content and services over the Internet continues to drive demand for unprecedented bandwidth speed and capacity. Meeting this demand by providing cost-effective, high quality and high performance network solutions has become a strategic imperative for businesses of all siz...

Further cementing its position as the fastest-growing and highest-energy cloud computing event in the world, the 6th International Cloud Expo being held at the Prague Hilton in the Czech Republic on June 21-22, 2010, will also feature - on June 21st - a @CloudCamp unconference. Clou...

In his opening keynote at the 6th International Cloud Expo, Sam Gross, Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, will discuss the latest technologies and approaches that help knock down these barriers, creating the opportunity for attendees to consider cl...

Consumer Watchdog on Wednesday called on the state attorneys general to investigate Google's WiSpy snooping in their respective states to determine what state laws were broken. "While the activity is likely a violation of federal laws, we believe there is a good possibility it also ...

After the Enron debacle, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) assumed a leadership role in the rush toward an international set of accounting standards (IFRS). The long and proud independent standard setting process in the United States of America is being ph...

Google, the self-proclaimed "don't-be-evil" company, is following the classic corporate evil-doer's playbook as it attempts to quell worldwide outrage over the WiSpy scandal, Consumer Watchdog said today. The Internet giant's new report claiming that it generated $54 billion in econ...

Google says its YouTube property, five-years-old on Monday, is getting upwards of two billion views a day, up from one billion in October and “nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined.” It also has the second most popular search engine in...

In a move that will come as no surprise to anyone, Google is planning to set up an online store for third-party Chrome apps later this year. It’s promising a secure payment system. It’s also got some documentation on how to write Chrome apps for the store but warns that technical d...

It must have blown Microsoft off because the suit goes on to say that “defendant intends to continue its unlawful infringing activity” leaving Microsoft no other recourse but to seek an injunction along with compensatory damages, treble damages, pre-judgment interest, attorneys fees an...

Cloud Expo 2010 New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley "Gold Sponsor" CSC has named Siki Giunta vice president of cloud computing and software services, with global responsibility for implementing CSC's cloud computing strategy and continuing to advance the company's leadership position...

SYS-CON announced today that Jeremy Geelan was named President & COO of Cloud Expo, Inc. "Cloud Expo, Inc." was spun out of SYS-CON Events, Inc. as a startup events management company which produces and presents Cloud Expo (TM) events worldwide. Jeremy Geelan served as Sr. Vice-Preside...

“Actually Skype has been an incredibly successful business since we cut ties with eBay,” offers Christopher. “We have 560 million users globally at this stage. We did $713 million of revenue last year, which marks a 30 percent increase year-to-year, and the company's been profitable fo...

Founded by Isilon founder Paul Mikesell and Sergei Tsarev, who led the Internet Operations Systems Infrastructure team at AOL, San Francisco-based Clustrix emerged from stealth mode today and announced the Clustrix CLX 4010, a highly scalable database solution that addresses the infras...

Laszlo Systems, a provider of Rich Unified Internet Applications for consumers and businesses, on Thursday announced the launch of Laszlo Webtop Cloud, a web-based platform that merges email, voice and messaging with social networking and other applications to deliver an integrated com...

WorkLight, a leader in multi-channel software and services, has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Ron Perry and Yaron Goldberg as, respectively, chief technology officer and vice president of research and development. They will be instrumental in leading the company’s...

In an apparent experiment in eugenics, a dating site called Cupidtino is going to see if crossing an Apple fan with an Apple fan is, well, fruitful. Cupidtino is going to be exclusively for Apple zealots and to weed out any rogue PC DNA invading its hothouse will only be accessible t...

"This investment round is another strong validation for our unique innovation and the business momentum we have experienced since launching our CDN and site acceleration suite," said Ronni Zehavi, co-founder and CEO of Cotendo, as he announced today it has closed a new round of equity ...

Google Buys Little BumpTop Google has bought Toronto-based BumpTop, a critically acclaimed 3D touch-based desktop environment invented four years or so ago as CEO Anand Agarawala’s master’s thesis. Wikipedia says it’s more suitable for tablet PCs and palmtops. It’s been out ...

A new survey of IT professionals by The IT Job Board revealed that while political parties are attracting younger voters using social networking and online media sites, the majority of IT professionals are relying on the mainstream media to follow the election campaign. Seventy-percen...

"IDC forecasts a 2009-2013 CAGR of 26% for the worldwide cloud services market, which includes software-as-a-service offerings," explains Mary Johnston Turner, research director for enterprise system management software at IDC. "As more and more organizations implement public cloud an...

In his presentation, Willoughby discussed how the benefits of cloud computing can deliver new IT functionality to the business quickly and at low initial cost. Additionally, he highlighted how borderless applications present a new challenge to IT departments: managing application perfo...

A year ago, most IT execs were looking into the "what" of Cloud Computing, as Cloud Expo speaker Dr. Hal Stern of Oracle noted. "But this year, people are here to talk about 'how.'" as he said during his session in New York. (Hal was so integral to Sun Microsystems for so long, it's od...

Here we are a stone’s throw away from Microsoft rolling out its browser-based Office apps and Microsoft – in another attempt to run Google and its ilk off the reservation – came out Wednesday with a free Facebook-integrated version of the stuff called pointedly Docs.com. It was annou...

"I had great conversations with many corporate IT personnel that were either just starting their cloud research or just wrapping it up and writing recommendations for their path forward," he wrote. "It struck me that there seems to be several categories that predict an enterprises curr...