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AT&T plans to sell phones based on Google's Android operating system, after being assured by the search giant that it won't be forced to offer all-Google applications, the operator's chief executive said on Wednesday.

Nearly three months after closing the biggest merger in its history, SAP has set the dual challenge of integrating Business Objects' BI tools more tightly with its enterprise resource planning software while also maintaining the independence of those tools to appeal to non-SAP customers.

Iona Technologies is offering technology to link Microsoft applications with systems from Oracle, IBM and others.

VMware has this week officially made available its Lifecycle Manager tool, which allows IT managers to better control the lifecycle of VMs (virtual machines), right from their creation, through to their decommissioning.

After an operator started selling a service that lets parents control the Web sites their kids access on their phones, the service provider noticed something unusual: The third most popular category of Web content being accessed by phones monitored by the service were job hunt sites.

Major League Baseball's MLB.TV online broadcasting service encountered serious technical difficulties for the second straight day on Tuesday, as affected paying subscribers fumed about missing games.

There's a lot of buzz about Facebook, but what is it, exactly? What does it do? Can anybody join? How much does it cost?

Microsoft demonstrated new features for its Windows Mobile 6.1 platform this week, including Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash capabilities.

Adobe Systems and RealNetworks are backing Intel's drive to put Linux on Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and will offer versions of AIR and RealPlayer, respectively, for handheld devices that use the open source operating system, the chipmaker said.

Everex Systems is displaying a new, low-cost laptop PC able to connect to telecom operator Sprint Nextel's Xohm WiMax wireless broadband network at the CTIA Wireless 2008 trade show in Las Vegas this week.

Enterprise IT managers expect to deploy more automation technologies and adopt best practice frameworks in an effort to better keep virtualization, service-oriented architecture and Web 2.0 technologies under control and operating efficiently, two recent surveys suggest.

Five major PC makers will include Qualcomm's Gobi 3G mobile data technology in laptops, and Qualcomm expects six to nine carriers to support the system by year's end.

Sprint Nextel showed off a new iPhone look-alike from Samsung on Tuesday at the CTIA conference in Las Vegas that the operator says allows much faster data access then the Apple phone.

Microsoft's Office 2007 is seeing strong adoption by corporate users that will only pick up steam over the next 12 months, according to a Forrester Research survey released Tuesday.

Responding to increasing pressure from other mobile phone platforms, Microsoft on Tuesday planned to introduce updated versions of Windows Mobile and Internet Explorer Mobile and also make its new enterprise device management software available to all medium-size and large businesses.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has adopted an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format.

Microsoft has an ambitious wish list for a planned upgrade to its application lifecycle management platform, including offering its ALM server via a hosted model.

Verizon Business is extending many of the functions of a PBX phone system to BlackBerry users through a new offering based on technology from Ascendent Systems, a subsidiary of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.

HP on Monday said it reached an agreement to buy Tower Software, which makes document and records management software.

In an environment where anti-virus providers are openly admitting that their products cannot stop many attacks and in which customers are under more pressure than ever before to keep their sensitive data protected, Fortify is touting a new process dubbed business software assurance that it maintains will change the manner in which organizations defend themselves from external threats.