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Postini, Google’s suite of email security, management, and archiving services, encountered service disruptions on Tuesday afternoon and evening. Google acknowledged the first problem shortly after 3 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time, saying that “a significant subset of users” had been rendered unable to access Postini services. [ Find out how to block the viruses, worms, and [...]

Popular Web applications Twitter and Google Calendar are having performance and availability problems, the companies said separately on Wednesday. Google Calendar users started reporting difficulties logging into the service on Tuesday in its official discussion forum, but the company didn’t acknowledge the issue until around 11 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Wednesday. [ Stay ahead [...]

Startup People Power this week is introducing a wireless application development platform that is centered on home deployments and the green technology market, but also can be applied to commercial offices. The company’s SuRF (Sensor Ultra Radio Frequency) Developer’s Kit is being rolled out Monday for embedded systems developers. It features a system-on-a-chip based on [...]

IBM/Lotus will use next week’s Lotusphere conference to show its customers a long-term collaboration and cloud strategy that stretches well into the future and across its portfolio of software. In addition, Lotus also intends to partially pull back the covers on Notes 9, known as Lotus Next, introduce to users new ways to acquire 8.5x [...]