Throughout its history, Microsoft has earned a reputation for tenacity when entering markets created, and initially dominated, by innovative startups. Competitors and observers have jeered when ...

Twitter made its new retweet function available to a limited number of users on Thursday, as it tests the new feature before rolling it out across its entire network. Retweets are just one part of ...

While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in the industry can't wait to take these technologies to the next level. ...

A Chinese government watchdog plans to push Twitter-style Web sites to censor their content, the country's latest move to block Internet users from posting certain politically sensitive information ...

Social-networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos.The simple coding errors are ...

Twitter is cleaning up trending topics by returning more relevant results when you look up popular keywords people are tweeting about. One of the neatest little features that grew out of the Twitter ...

During this week's Cloud Computing Expo, I had an opportunity to meet with a new Japanese Cloud Service Provider. This company, KDDI, is the second largest telco in Japan, and offers a wide range of ...

Rackspace found itself apologizing to its users again this week and promising to earn back customers' trust after a power outage in its Dallas-Fort Worth data center. Cloud computing inevitable? Not ...

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 ...