Todd R. Weiss

Mozilla’s latest Firefox 17 Web browser has been released and includes a host of intriguing new features, including the integration of Facebook Messenger into the browser to give users a seamless mix of Web searching and real-time communications. The new Facebook Messenger integration, which is the first new service to come out of Mozilla’s new […]

Google continues to take on Apple and Amazon in pursuing customers in the online music business after securing a licensing deal to add 5.5 million musical works from 35 countries around the world to its Google Play music download service. “The accord with Armonia, the alliance of French, Italian and Spanish licensing groups, is billed […]

BERLIN — Open-Xchange is giving its flagship mail server product a big upgrade to better serve users, adding everything from multi-device capabilities to easy integration with social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn. The company debuted the new feature-filled OX App Suite at its Open-Xchange Summit here Nov. 15 as a way for enterprises […]

Research In Motion has set Jan. 30, 2013, as the launch date for the new BlackBerry 10 enterprise mobile platform and devices as the company hopes to lure back enterprise users who have fled for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android alternatives in recent years. The BlackBerry 10 Launch date was announced Nov. 12 for the […]

Apple and HTC have settled their two-and-a-half-year-old legal fight over charges that HTC’s smartphone designs infringed on about 20 Apple patents for its iPhones. The settlement, which also dismisses all current lawsuits between the two companies and includes a 10-year licensing agreement between Apple and HTC for all current and future patents, was announced Nov. […]

Google’s Cloud SQL database services just got faster after the company ramped up several technical specifications aimed at increasing cloud performance for its enterprise customers. Among the key improvements are a four-times increase—from 4GB RAM to 16 GB RAM—in the amount of data that can be cached, as well as a new option for asynchronous […]

Though Google’s Android mobile operating system is now found on three of every four smartphones shipped around the world, the company is still pushing to drive the popularity of Android—especially in emerging markets. That’s what Google hopes to do, starting in the Philippines with a new Free Zone service it is rolling out to give […]

Google had already launched a new Google Search page design that displays more cleanly on tablets and smartphones, so now the company is rolling the new design out for desktop users. So far, though, whether users love it or hate it depends on whom you ask, according to a wide range of comments left on […]

Oracle is once again bulking up its business product catalog in 2012 with the acquisition of Instantis, a vendor of cloud- and premises-based Project Portfolio Management (PPM) applications and services. In an announcement Nov. 8, Oracle said it will combine the features and capabilities of Instantis applications with Oracle’s own Primavera and Fusion applications to […]

Mobile versions of Microsoft Office for Android, iPads and iPhones are on their way and will arrive for users in the Spring of 2013, according to a report from The Verge. “Although Office Mobile has been rumored and reportedly spotted in the wild, Microsoft has remained persistently quiet about its plans for the product,” the […]