Microsoft’s cleverly named “software plus services” strategy would probably work better with users if their cloud computing centers would stop turning into smoke and mirrors.

IBM has announced the launch of LotusLive iNotes Web-based email for businesses aimed at competing directly with Google’s low-cost business solution. And the kicker is that it’s cheaper to go with Big Blue.

Samsung Electronics has been steadily growing into a major industry power since it surpassed Sony’s market value in 2002 and now finds itself within reach of industry leader Intel.

The Blu-ray adoption rate has been climbing quickly. However, the price of the medium won’t be dropping as fast. The new HD format has grown tremendously over the past year and it is clear that Blu-ray is the new format, but the question remains if it will ever cost the same as the DVD.

The next generation of Zune portable media device gets its HD processing punch from the Nvidia Tegra chip with graphics processing built in. Could high-definition video be the move that leapfrogs the Zune past the iPod?

Researchers are nearing the point of actualizing the dream of quantum computing, and thus speeding up the rate at which we can solve some problems by at least several orders of magnitude.

Intel says it has found a way to produce solid state drives at less than half the existing price. It could be the last step to making the technology a serious mass-market alternative to traditional hard drives.

As more and more software packages, clients, and businesses move their data into the cloud, more and more cyber-attacks and fraud will be done in the cloud, says a cyber-crime federal prosecutor.

There is increasing evidence that consumers are slowly but surely moving away from buying DVDs in the numbers they once did. A victory for Blu-ray perhaps? No, not really, as even though sales are up by a substantial percentage, there’s a huge gap between the drop in the DVD market and the gain in the Blu-ray market.

One can never have too much memory capacity at the ready, and the SD Association is saying that come next year, you can expect at least double what SD cards already offer.

Intel is once again betting on flash memory to boost performance, this time planning to build the technology into it’s first chipset-on-a-chip architecture as well as new multi-chip configurations.

The Blu-ray format’s adoption rate has been on the climb for the past two years after its battle with HD-DVD. The format has been quickly picking ups steam matching perditions that sales would double within this year. It also seems like the format is eating away at DVD sales as revenue has dropped while Blu-ray has exploded.

Iomega has launched its latest range of external hard drives. If the marketing is to be believed, it should have something to appeal to every audience — including the butter-fingered.

The Dell Latitude 2100 was designed as the first touch netbook aimed at K-12 students with a rugged case and an option of five bold colors. However its robust features and modest pricing appeal to a much broader market.

Acer has announced the pricing and availability of two new models in its Aspire netbook line, including one with an 11.6-inch screen. There’s no official definition on how large a netbook can be, but you can be certain the AO751h will crush any other netbook in its path.

Blu-ray may now just be starting to make inroads into the market share DVD holds, but it could be that its days are already numbered. General Electric is working on developing a micro-holographic storage solution which would see 500GB of data stored on a single DVD-sized disc. Now that’s impressive.

One of the most surprising romances between technology companies may be that between IBM and Sun. What is the upside of a marriage between these disparate players?