When Sam Palmisano addresses IBM's annual shareholder meeting this month, Big Blue's chief will unfurl plenty of good news. And yet investors in the audience could be forgiven for being impatient with the boss.
- By The Associated Press
- April 16, 2006
Sales of personal computers without software -- known as "naked computers" -- will be banned in the Chinese capital to reduce software piracy, the city government said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- April 14, 2006
Chinese computer manufacturer Founder Technology Group Corp. signed an agreement Wednesday with Microsoft Corp. as part of an overall effort to crack down on widespread software piracy in China.
- By The Associated Press
- April 13, 2006
Google Inc., the top online search engine, is unveiling a calendar service that allows users to store appointments online, receive reminders about them and share those plans with others.
- By The Associated Press
- April 13, 2006
Microsoft this week took another shot at nemesis Google as it released the first beta test copy of its own academic search system.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 13, 2006
This time, there will be no more temporary reprieves. Microsoft has begun warning users of Windows 98, 98 Second Edition and Windows Millennium Edition that the end is near -- for all technical support, at least.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 13, 2006
Chief technical officer Ray Ozzie has only been at Microsoft a year but he has already started making an important impact on the company's technology directions, especially in the area of the software giant's online services play.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 12, 2006
Microsoft late last week did something longtime industry watchers thought they'd never see: The company announced it has set up a Web site specifically aimed at improving communications with Linux and the rest of the open source world.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 12, 2006
Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt on Wednesday defended the search engine's cooperation with Chinese censorship as he announced the creation of a Beijing research center and unveiled a Chinese-language brand name.
- By The Associated Press
- April 12, 2006
A Texas software company sued Best Buy Co. Inc. in federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer was using unlicensed versions of its diagnostic equipment.
- By The Associated Press
- April 12, 2006
A Briton accused of mounting the largest ever successful hack of U.S. government computer networks could face prosecution under U.S. anti-terror laws, despite assurances he will not, his lawyer told an extradition hearing Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- April 12, 2006
MySpace.com said Tuesday it has tapped a former federal prosecutor and Microsoft Corp. executive to be its online safety chief, the latest move by the social networking site to shore up security.
- By The Associated Press
- April 11, 2006
As Microsoft works on delivering new tools for creating and maintaining Web sites, it also plans to quietly kill off FrontPage at the end of the year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 11, 2006
Microsoft this week released the April Community Technology Preview (CTP) of ASP.NET, code-named "Atlas."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 11, 2006
Microsoft on Tuesday released five security bulletins as promised. All five addressed vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of an affected system. Three of the bulletins were rated critical, and one addressed a high-profile, zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 11, 2006
Not since blackouts rolled across California before Enron's collapse has the IT industry been so obsessed with power use in the data center. In recent conferences, a month apart, the industry's biggest chipmakers held up power management as a major concern of IT, and a central feature of their roadmaps.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2006
LAS VEGAS -- Wojtek Felendzer held a mobile phone to his ear as he walked across the room, the call automatically switching behind the scenes from a Wi-Fi wireless hotspot to the regular cellular network.
- By The Associated Press
- April 09, 2006
The Norwegian government on Friday said it will step up use of open-source software to reduce its dependency on computer giants like Microsoft.
- By The Associated Press
- April 09, 2006
In an effort to boost the level of data security on portable computers, cell phones and other gadgets, IBM Corp. is unveiling a method for injecting encryption capabilities into the heart of the machines' circuitry.
- By The Associated Press
- April 09, 2006
Microsoft plans to release at least five security bulletins next Tuesday in its monthly patching cycle. One of the bulletins will address a high-profile Internet Explorer vulnerability.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 06, 2006