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VMWARE has warned that 2008 revenue growth will fall short of expectations and said it has replaced its chief executive.

Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a Domain Name System flaw that would let hackers control web traffic.

Hitachi announces the Deskstar 7K1000.B, a three-disk 1TB hard drive.

No high-end smartphone? No problem. Standard consumer-grade mobile phones from Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung, and other vendors are capable of syncing with Exchange servers, empowering mobile e-mail for nearly anyone who needs it.

VODAFONE Australia has announced its iPhone pricing but has failed to better offerings from rival carriers Telstra and Optus.

A computer program designed to save water for Australia's drought-stricken farmers has won a major international technology prize.

Sun on Tuesday announced availability of Java VisualVM, an open-source GUI tool for troubleshooting and profiling Java applications.Users can view detailed information about Java applications while they are running on a JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Billed as an all-in-one troubleshooting tool, VisualVM integrates several command line JDK (Java Development Kit) tools and profiling capabilities. It enhances monitoring and performance analysis, according to Sun."After eight months of frantic development since VisualVM Preview 1 was released, I'm happy to announce the general availability of JDK 6 Update 7 Java VisualVM and VisualVM 1.0," said Luis-Miguel Alventosa, a Sun senior software engineer, in a blog.Offered as part of Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE) Update 7, Java VisualVM provides a visual diagnostic tool for development and production environments. It includes such technologies as jvmstat, which provides lightweight performance and configuration instrumentation to the HotSpot

Taiwan's Giga-byte Technology showed off its new mini-laptop, or netbook, last month at the Computex electronics show in Taipei, and the company gave me a chance to try out their final, production version of the device.

Reliance Communications of India and MTN of South Africa have extended their period of exclusive negotiations to July 21 in their bid to merge the two telecommunications companies.

China's government warned Internet sites and mobile content providers to steer clear of broadcasting any video of Olympic events without permission, including the torch relay and opening ceremony, saying that anyone who infringes the rights of the state-owned broadcaster to these events will face severe penalties.