The world's largest chipmaker uses a lot of servers. But it says it's having to spend money on fewer now thanks to VMware -- and offers a few lessons to CIOs also looking to trim costs.

Announcing that Windows Phone 7 has been "released to manufacturing," Microsoft marks a major milestone in the development of its new mobile operating system.

Dell drops out after HP offers a whopping $2.4 billion for the enterprise and cloud storage technology player.

According to a new survey by Robert Half International, IT executives are only planning modest increases in hiring, citing budget constraints and a shortage of qualified workers.

Your infrastructure might be going into the cloud... but it'll still need to be stored somewhere. A storage-centric look of VMworld's happenings.

Longstanding leader in the hard-drive sector continues efforts to diversity portfolio, now launching a networking kit that could port video content to the TV.

Google makes its Android software freely available, but Microsoft argues there are other costs related to making the open source software available on mobile devices.

Gartner's latest forecast predicts continued strong growth for PC makers in the next two quarters -- just not as robust as they enjoyed in the first half of 2010.

Apple's CEO highlights new ways Apple plans to build on its dominance in mobile devices with new social, movie rental and performance enhancements.

New research from Sybase concludes that a median Fortune 1000 firm would stand to gain more than $2 billion with better, more accurate and more usable data.

HP panelists used the VMworld conference as a platform to posit their expertise in cloud computing as it emerges from its infancy.

Federal Communications Commission issues a notice asking for comments on two of the most contentious aspects of the net neutrality debate, while industry negotiations advance.

Big Blue drops details on its efforts to build and buy cloud products and services tailored for for uses like compliance, collaboration and communications across an array of industries.

Acknowledging the power of the platform, software giant begins shipping Bing app on rival Android devices from Verizon, with plans to reach new handsets in the coming months.

Users express outrage at Digg's site redesign.

VMware's chief looks past the hypervisor wars to focus on data center automation and what he sees as the coming of IT as a strategic (cost-saving, security-improving, value-enhancing) service.

Microsoft hits online software reseller Jigantic.com with a lawsuit alleging the outfit traded in pirated copies of SQL Server 2008 and passing off Software Assurance contracts as legitimate licenses.

Coming soon: ViewSonic's ViewPad 7 and Samsung's Galaxy Tab.

Virtualization giant VMware announced two purchases targeting security and analytics -- TriCipher and Integrien -- as it looks ahead to offering "IT as a service."

A unique study by security software vendor BitDefender discovered that IT professionals, particularly security folks, are the most likely to share secrets on social networks.