Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute _ most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study estimates.
- By The Associated Press
- October 09, 2007
Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 08, 2007
On Friday, we presented the first installment of the "Top 10 Overlooked Features of Windows Server 2008." Today is part two. These are technologies included in Windows 2008 that you may not have heard much about, but could make your life as a Windows IT pro a lot easier.
- By Keith Ward
- October 08, 2007
Microsoft and third-party vendors are working overtime to produce new storage management solutions for business. They've come a long way since the days of tape backup, and the innovations are continuing.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 05, 2007
In October, for the second time in as many months, Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" gave way to "Exploit Wednesday." This could be a sign of an emergent modus operandi for those who would exploit vulnerabilities just after Microsoft releases its security bulletins, according to some security experts.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 05, 2007
Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries.
- By The Associated Press
- October 04, 2007
Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the Internet's central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English.
- By The Associated Press
- October 04, 2007
Google Inc. is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mailboxes, underscoring the online search leader's ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market.
- By The Associated Press
- October 03, 2007
During a two-hour period on June 24, something unusual and a bit worrying turned up in e-mail security firm MessageLabs Inc.'s filters: 514 messages tailored to senior executives of corporate clients that contained malicious programs designed to steal sensitive company data.
- By The Associated Press
- October 03, 2007
In a surprise move, Microsoft said today it is releasing the reference source code for the .NET Framework libraries, a key step toward opening up the proprietary development platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 03, 2007
Microsoft Corp. kept its options open Tuesday on whether it will appeal a landmark antitrust ruling and record $613 million fine imposed by European competition authorities that an EU court upheld last month.
- By The Associated Press
- October 03, 2007
Yahoo Inc. has retooled its online search engine to make it more helpful and engaging, joining an industrywide wave of improvements that so far haven't dented Google Inc.'s dominance.
- By The Associated Press
- October 02, 2007
Online videos aren't just for bloopers and rants -- some might also be conduits for malicious code that can infect your computer.
- By The Associated Press
- October 02, 2007
The high failure rates of IT departments to meet businesses' evolving needs are not exactly news in the IT community. Still, studies chronicling this situation never fail to shock. And so it is with a new study on IT effectiveness from business consulting firm Bain & Co.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 02, 2007
MIT last week launched the Kerberos Consortium, according to a report from the university's News Office.
- By David Nagel
- October 02, 2007
Microsoft today rolled out a new service for its Office suite that adds online collaboration features but still requires documents to be created and edited on the desktop.
- By Keith Ward
- October 01, 2007
Software AG has added to its CentraSite governance solution products with a new CentraSite Governance Edition. It's part of a suite of solutions that Software AG offers to businesses deploying service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 28, 2007
There are important differences between consumer Web 2.0 applications and next-gen Web apps in the enterprise, said Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell, and developers who want their applications to succeed in the latter environment need to appreciate those differences.
- By John K. Waters
- September 28, 2007
Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.
- By Lee Thé
- September 28, 2007
Senators expressed no outright opposition to Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick at a hearing focused on the deal's potential threats to competition and consumer privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2007