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One ex-Sun Microsystems employee who will not be cashing an Oracle paycheck is XML co-inventor Tim Bray, who has opted instead to work for the Google . Bray will be working, beginning on Monday, as a developer-advocate for the company’s Android development team, according to an announcement on his blog.

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Oracle loses XML co-inventor to Google

Ruckus Wireless aims to lower the cost of entry to enterprise IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi gear with a stepped-down line of access points it is introducing on Monday.

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Ruckus targets enterprise Wi-Fi with lower pricing

On the heels of OCZ Technology Group’s release of its first sub-$100 solid-state drive (SSD) , Intel is shipping a $125 SSD called the X25-V Value SATA SSD.

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Intel releases ‘affordable’ SSD

Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable

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Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT

Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday will introduce a framework enabling Web analytics to be performed for Siliverlight rich media applications. The open source Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework will debut in a beta form at the conference in Las Vegas, said Michael Scherotter, Microsoft media experience evangelist. The framework, which will be released on the company’s CodePlex site for open source projects, will work with third-party analytics services from companies such as Preemptive Solutions.

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Microsoft to offer Web analytics for Silverlight

Microsoft promises to finally reveal full details of the Windows Phone 7 operating system, at its Mix conference this week, traditionally a venue for Microsoft’s Web developer community. There’s a lot riding on these details.

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Microsoft set to reveal its full plans for Windows Phone 7

The surge of iPhones and other smartphones in the enterprise is a major headache for IT departments. Now, there are three new medicines that may help to ease that pain

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Three new options emerge for managing smartphones in the enterprise

Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard.

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Cisco to expand video calling with IME

Google will begin on Thursday a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers’ ability to modify the look of their blogs .

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Google tests revamped Blogger layout design tool