The company that made its billions selling ads for Web searches is now officially in the telecommunications business, as Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) demonstrated Tuesday with the launch of its branded Nexus One smartphone. However, can the same success that saw “Google” become a verb be translated to the burgeoning mobile market? Is there anything in ...

A growing number of technical and economic incentives are mounting that make a strong case for modernizing and transforming enterprise mainframe applications — and the aging infrastructure that support them. IT budget planners are using the strident economic environment to force a harder look at alternatives to inflexible and hard-to-manage legacy systems, especially as enterprises ...

Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) bid to secure the digital rights to millions of books remains under attack from rivals and other critics trying to block a revised legal settlement that would unlock a vast electronic library. The opposition fired its latest salvo Thursday, the deadline for filing objections with U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New ...