Motorola reported growth in sales and profit for the third quarter, helped by the sale of an increasing number of Android-based smartphones, the company said on Thursday.

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Your business finally joined Twitter–great, right? You started strong, growing your followers quickly. You tweeted consistently, pushing out a handful of updates each day. But now things have slowed down –your followers have trailed off. Your retweets are few and far between. And–oops–it’s been a few days since your last tweet.

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More than a dozen vendors created a working group to create a new SSD interconnect standard that would allow equipment manufacturers to use SAS, SATA or PCIe as a plug-in in their devices.

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A massive takedown operation conducted by Dutch police and security experts earlier this week does not appear to have completely dissolved the Bredolab botnet, but it is unlikely to recover.

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In the latest of a series of actions meant to bolster the E.U.-wide,1995 Data Protection Directive, the European Commission announced on Thursday that it is taking Austria to court for failing to establish a completely independent data protection authority.

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Oracle announced late Wednesday that it has taken a 10.2 percent stake in Mellanox Technologies, maker of Infiniband interconnects for servers and storage systems.

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Nintendo reported a 2.01 billion yen (US$24.6 million) net loss for the six months to Sept. 30, as its sales of hardware and software dropped, the company said on Thursday. It sold 42 percent fewer handheld game consoles than a year earlier.

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China is using its dominance of the rare metals production business to cut exports, raise prices and to get U.S. electronics makers to open more plants in the country.

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Startup service provider ipTrust today said it was offering a program that lets businesses avoid botnets and infected machines by letting them know whether IP addresses are linked to suspicious behavior.

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Symantec has been forced to write off US$10 million in revenue after a glitch in its sales system prevented some consumers from activating their Norton antivirus software at the time they bought it.

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Microsoft today launched Office for Mac 2011, the newest version of its application suite designed for Mac OS X.

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In a major victory for the music industry, a New York federal judge has ordered embattled P2P software maker LimeWire to immediately and permanently stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software.

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Cleversafe has added thin provisioning and new security features to its cloud storage platform — and has received a significant round of funding from the CIA’s venture capital arm.

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Researchers at the Columbia University Medical center hope that IBM analytics software can help them to more quickly spot symptoms of the deadly delayed ischemia complication that sometimes develops in stroke patients.

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Firefox users can protect themselves against Firesheep, the new browser add-on that lets amateurs hijack users’ access to Facebook, Twitter and other popular services, security experts said on Tuesday.

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The Apache Harmony license issue also drags on as JCP Executive Committee members strive for independence from Oracle.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded broadband stimulus grants of more than $500 million to 40 companies to deploy WiMAX services in 22 states.

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Mozilla says it will patch a new zero-day flaw now being exploited in Web attacks.

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Following in the footsteps of Firefox and Chrome, Apple this summer began allowing developers to create extensions for its Safari 5 Web browser and more recently launched its Extensions Gallery. The idea is to allow users to customize Safari in ways that make Web surfing more efficient and fun.

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PayPal already allows you to check your account, pay for services, and even deposit checks from an iPhone. Now that the company wants to move into direct payment to brick and mortar businesses using smartphone apps, could the company actually tempt you to give up your brick and mortar bank?

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In the movie, The Social Network, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook doesn’t come off as the nicest guy in town.

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Evan Williams is handing over Twitter’s CEO title to Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo, as the microblogging company focuses on generating revenue that is consistent with its massive popularity.

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Google has acquired BlindType, a developer of apps to make typing easier on touch-screen phones, the small software maker announced Friday. The move comes just a couple of months after BlindType demonstrated an Android version of its software, which was originally developed for the iPhone and iPad.

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Tony Bates, who directed Cisco’s core enterprise, commercial and small business division, has left the company, according to a Cisco blog entry posted on Monday.

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The latest version of Visual Studio also is supported in Iron Speed Designer 7.1

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Microsoft shares flirted with a 52-week low Monday following a downgrading of the company’s stock by Goldman Sachs, trading as low as 23.78, 60 cents, or 2.5 percent, below Friday’s closing price.
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IBM has started a pilot project in Dubuque, Iowa to help the city’s residents better manage their water usage

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The Google Apps tool that synchronizes the hosted communication and collaboration suite with Outlook now works with the latest version of the Microsoft e-mail desktop software.

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Over the weekend Verizon Wireless announced it will pay up to $90 million to 15 million customers who incurred data charges even though they didn’t have data plans.
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Microsoft has definite plans to add Office Web Apps to its hosted Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS), but the company isn’t providing a specific timetable for the integration.

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Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced new blade and rack servers designed to deliver more performance while combining hardware and software capabilities to improve server reliability and lower energy costs.

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Business intelligence projects fared well at the 2010 Computerworld Honors program, which recognizes IT projects that benefit society.

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Fiberlink Communications thinks it can cut patch management costs for IT departments with a new cloud-based service.

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U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration will seek to aggressively enforce its intellectual property laws by putting pressure on countries that don’t shut down piracy Web sites and by requiring all government contractors to check for illegal software, the White House announced.

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WiMax service provider Clearwire raised more than US$290 million in a rights offering that expired on Monday, building up its war chest as it continues to deploy a national 4G network.

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Researchers in the U.K. are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications running on cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.

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Trustwave has acquired Breach Security for an undisclosed sum, an acquisition that the company said would bring Breach Security’s Web application firewall together with Trustwave’s own enterprise security tools.

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Google’s telephony management application Google Voice is now open to all U.S. residents, as the company on Tuesday removed the requirement for prospective users to receive an invitation in order to sign up for the service.

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The U.S. needs local education and training programs and better computer reuse programs to overcome a large broadband adoption gap, speakers at a broadband adoption forum said Tuesday.

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Eric Boehs believed that he had accidentally thrown away his iPhone and iPad. Alas, that’s not exactly what happened.

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