Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) has selected AT&T to be its global provider of advanced communications services. The five year agreement, estimated to be worth $1.6 billion, calls for AT&T to provide, manage and maintain Shell’s worldwide communications infrastructure while also managing the company’s global mobility needs.

Nokia Siemens Networks will provide Long Term Evolution (LTE) for 700 MHz and 1.7/2.1 GHz spectrum bands in North America.

Experts at SophosLabs, Sophos’s global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have advised the Apple Macintosh community not to panic following the discovery of another Trojan horse for the Mac OS X platform.

AMD today announced the introduction of the first commercially available 3D workstation graphics card with DisplayPort support.

Adobe today announced that the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR software for Linux operating systems is available on Adobe Labs.

Hungarian biography of 16th century painter Nicholas Hilliard declared ten millionth article

Dell customers can now get a Blu-ray laptop for under a $1,000. Movie buffs can pick up the Inspiron 1525 with optional Blu-ray disc playback starting at $879.

SGI has teamed with the National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies (NIMSAT) Institute at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to develop and deliver technologies that will help prepare the US for emergencies and facilitate response and recovery activities in the event of a disaster.

Catering to users who require simultaneous viewing and recording of digital and analog TV on their PCs, ASUS has introduced the new PCI-express TV card, the ASUS My Cinema - PE9400 Combo.

IBM and Telecom Egypt announced the construction of an innovative data center for Telecom Egypt that includes the world’s most sophisticated energy-efficient “green” technologies.

IBM will collaborate with two of America’s leading academic institutions on an initiative to develop new autonomic technology for cloud computing.

Texas Instruments introduced a high-speed Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG) dual-role controller that provides flexible architecture to meet a multitude of customer-defined applications.

YouTube now offers a useful tool for its users, allowing them to track the viewer of their uploaded videos.

Motorola will demonstrate its expanded femtocell portfolio, including its CDMA solution, at CTIA Wireless 2008 Apr. 1-3 in Las Vegas.

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Photoshop Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos.

AMD today announced the availability of AMD Phenom X3 8000 series triple-core processors.

These new capabilities enable developers to achieve greater reliability and redundancy for all of their applications, including hosting websites. These two features were among the top requests of developers using Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and allows developers to obtain and configure capacity with […]

Motorola has commenced a process to create two independent, publicly-traded companies: one selling infrastructure and networking equipment, the other left to try and sell handsets against increasing competition.

AT&T and NTT Communications Corporation signed construction and maintenance agreements on February 28, 2008, and March 14, 2008, respectively, to participate in the Trans-Pacific Express Consortium, that links Japan, mainland China, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.

NTT DoCoMo has recorded a downlink transmission rate of 250Mbps over a high-speed wireless network in an outdoor test of an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications.

There is good news to all fans of the popular South Park animated series. Its creators have decided to make all 12 seasons available online, free of charge.

Sophos reports that a Chinese court has handed out hefty jail sentences to four men who used a Trojan horse to steal bank account information.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced it is awarding $3 million of support to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which operates the world’s largest and most popular encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google announced they have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.

STMicroelectronics and Veredus Laboratories announced the commercial availability of VereFlu, a portable lab-on-chip application for rapid detection of all major influenza types at the point of need.