Discover Financial Services and Barclays are also contributing to the effort to launch a mobile payment system that could eventually compete with Mastercard and Visa.

The service delivers music, based on subscribers' online social networks, to smartphones and personal computers for a monthly fee.

Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language.

Federal government must coordinate efforts across agencies to provide a united front on policy, standards, and strategy, says Government Accountability Office.

Privacy worries about single sign-on identity providers could fade if Google's PseudoID system gets implemented.

Research In Motion's latest smartphone, the BlackBerry 9800 Torch, goes after the consumer.

Fremont Area Medical Center using Lawson software to develop a patient information exchange for Nebraska healthcare providers.

Acquiring the Surgient Automation Platform would allow Quest to expand in the self-provisioning and virtualized server management market.

Disappointing paid subscriber levels attributed to prevalence of 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi, finds Juniper Research.

Work on the Department of Health and Human Services' Nationwide Health Information Network to include issuing digital certificates, updating network directories, and providing help desk support.

Two-thirds of information security aficionados back government-promulgated online spying, hacking, or surreptitious malware installs, finds Sophos.

Content management system incorporates all online assets, including editorial, social media, and video.

The Secure Remote Access 1200 offers users and IT administrators manageable connections between the office and remote desktops, laptops and mobile devices.

The settlement with the Department of Justice is expected to cost Hewlett-Packard as much as $50 million.

The mobile devices should gain nearly 9% over 2009, with some makers reporting 30% growth, finds VDC Research.

With the out-of-band release, Microsoft also disclosed Office documents at risk from the "no user input required" shortcut icon attack.

Though the Motorola Droid is receiving the Android 2.2 Froyo update this week, Verizon Wireless is leaving out two key Froyo features.