Research In Motion has unveiled a new platform for BlackBerry devices, BlackBerry BBX, claiming that it takes the best of the BlackBerry platform and the best of the QNX platform that underpins its Playbook tablet.

  HP is trying to make it cheaper and easier for its customers to move into public or private clouds. Financing and services are at the heart of the announcements.  

One of the truly great programmers of the last century and a man who maintained that simplicity was the best way to tackle the task has died.

Security software vendor Intego has released a malware scanner for Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Micro Focus's COBOL development software can now be used to create code for the Java Virtual Machine or Windows Azure as well as the previously supported platforms.

Novell has announced that its intellectual property pertaining to UNIX remains with the company after its sale to Attachmate Corporation.

Adobe has updated Acrobat and Reader to fix critical security vulnerabilities in the widely-used PDF applications.

An out-of-cycle security update for Adobe Acrobat and Reader has been announced for this week in order to address critical security issues.

Adobe will bring forward by a few days the release of its next quarterly update for Acrobat and Reader in response to a recently-discovered vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild. There's also a warning of an actively exploited vulnerability in Flash Player that will be fixed a the same time.

Adobe is warning its users that a critical vulnerability in Acrobat and Reader is being actively exploited.