Google has expanded its empire into yet another area, launching a beta version of its Google Health, a new site that lets users upload and manage all of their health records in one, always accessible place.

In a move to boost its already robust virtualisation offerings, VMware has announced that it will acquire B-hive Networks and its application performance management software.

In the interests of bringing together and optimising PACS images, BridgeHead Software has launched a new tool called PACStore.

The planned single release candidate for Firefox 3.0 could find itself with a successor after all, with Mozilla considering a second release candidate after ten significant bugs surfaced in the first.

After the hefty build and spectacular belly-flop by Vista, it appears that Microsoft is taking a more cautious approach to its next major operating system release, Windows 7, now expected around January, 2010.

Database security specialist Guardium has unveiled the world’s first solution to block privileged users from accessing sensitive data across all major database management system (DBMS) platforms.

The future of solid state storage drives (SSDs) has taken a leap forward today, with Samsung showing off a new prototype 256GB high-speed drive in Taipei.

According to the analysts at ABI Research, network storage will be the fastest growing core home networking category over the next five years, with the sector expected to hit just over US$1.4 (AU$1.46) billion by 2013.

Abobe has released public beta versions of the newest editions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth.

Analyst firm, IDC are warning that many outsourcing contracts could be renegotiated under the radar and service providers need to be on the lookout.